Societal conflicts with regard to risk management are common. The public has different beliefs than many experts and administrators with regard to such issues as the citing of a repository for spent nuclear fuel or whether genetically modified organisms should be allowed to enter the human food chain. As a result, political tensions arise and there may be a skew allocation of resources for risk...

My aim in this paper is to consider developments in the anthropology of consciousness from a long-term perspective. It may therefore be helpful to look back some thirty years and consider the state of affairs at that time. Of course, there wasn't anything called the "Anthropology of Consciousness." Psychologists had long ago given the whole notion of consciousness a bad name and put its study b...

This article presents the historical and contemporary relationship that cinema urban-architectural space have developed. Its purpose is to show reciprocal influence between objective virtual reality projected in science fiction films like Blade Runner, by director Ridley Scott (1982), Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg (2011), regarding current perception of architectural space. The idea behind...

In the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, cytoplasmically transmissible hypovirulence phenotypes are elicited by debilitating mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations. In virus-free hypovirulent strains of C. parasitica from nature, the presence of a mitochondrial DNA element, named InC9, has been reported to cause similar disease syndromes. We have detected an additional mitochondrial...