Introduction Since the early 1950s it is known that so-called weakly electric fish generate electrical signals with a special electric organ in their tail (Lissmann, 1951). During each electric organ discharge (EOD) an electric field builds up around the fish (Lissmann, 1958). The animal perceives its own electric emissions with epidermal electroreceptor organs (Szabo, 1967). Each object near t...

By working with experts throughout Europe, ECDC pools Europe’s health knowledge, so as to develop authoritative scientific opinions about the risks posed by current and emerging infectious diseases. Difficulties rose in the management of competent bodies’ lists and the information was duplicated several times across the organization. ECDC started implementing a CRM system to organize the inform...

The adverse effects of artificial nighttime lighting, known as light pollution, are emerging as an important environmental issue. To address these effects, current scientific research focuses mainly on identifying what is bad or undesirable about certain types and uses of lighting at night. This paper adopts a value-sensitive approach, focusing instead on what is good about darkness at night. I...

Drawing on Bakhtin’s notion of the dialogism word, especially double-voiced discourse, this paper examines Darko’s subtle inscription Conrad's Heart Darkness and Fanon’s The Wretched Earth in her novel Beyond Horizon (1995). Specifically, "horror" novel’s title as discourse or dialogical sites contestation affirmation, respectively. It argues that while Conradian subtext can be understood conte...

This paper uses data from felony jury trials in North Carolina to show that (i) the race and gender composition of the randomly selected jury pool has a significant effect on the probability of conviction, (ii) attorneys adjust peremptory challenge strategies in accordance, and (iii) State peremptory challenges have a significant positive impact on the conviction rate when the defendant is a bl...

There are hardware devices that need to attest by digital signature to their belonging to a particular class but that need, for reasons of privacy, to operate anonymously. Should such a device be compromised, its attestation key should be revoked. Through conventional techniques it is difficult to achieve both anonymity and revocation, although either is easily achievable by itself. In this pap...