The ?Humanae Vitae,? meaning ?Of Human Life? and subtitled ?On the Regulation of Birth,? was an encyclical promulgated in Rome, Italy, on 25 July 1968 by Pope Paul VI [6]. This encyclical defended and reiterated the Roman Catholic Church?s stance on family planning [7] and reproductive issues such as abortion [8], sterilization [9], and contraception [10]. The document continues to have a contr...

This paper revisits the problem of estimating ex ante cost functions previously studied by Pope and Just (1996) and Moschini (2001). An ex ante cost function that generalizes their ex ante cost functions is introduced, and an econometric procedure for estimating a flexible approximation to it is developed. That generalized cost function is economically relevant not only for the Just and Pope (1...

The discovery of self-dual instanton solutions in Euclidean Yang-Mills theory [I] has recently stimulated a great deal of interest in self-dual solutions to Einstein’s theory of gravitation. One would expect that the relevant instanton-like metrics would be those whose gravitational fields are self-dual, localized in Euclidean spacetime and free of singularities. In fact, solutions have been fo...

Pope Francis is very concerned to transform the Church through synodality. He has chosen synod of bishops as main tool for this reform. This paper shows how functioning Synod Bishops, which pope profoundly transformed, puts project a synodal into effect. From point view, process 2018 on youth an example synodality transforming Church. By taking steps step by step, practice deeply and paves way ...

Granting forgiveness demands self-regulation. Distinct modes of self-regulation might therefore produce distinct routes to forgiveness. Self-regulation focused on advancement (or promotion) could motivate forgiveness through the perceived benefits to be attained by repairing a relationship, i.e., one’s trust that a partner will provide such benefits rather than further betrayal. In contrast, se...

The free energies of adsorption of the monomer or dimer of the cationic beta-hairpin antimicrobial peptide protegrin-1 (PG1) in a specific binding orientation on a lipid bilayer are determined using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and Poisson-Boltzmann calculations. The bilayer is composed of anionic palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylglycerol (POPG) and palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine ...