Abstract The article advances a political interpretation of ritual behavior in religious communes, grounded costly signaling theory religion. Both asceticism, often involving self-inflicted pain or severe deprivation, and ecstatic behavior, incurring considerable energetic emotional expenditure, can perform the role voluntary signals ( VCS ) – uncoerced displays broadcasting features that predi...

Investors increasingly need to account for concerns about non-financial performance and consider the environmental impact of fossil fuel investment. We analyze how financial investors appreciate induced seismicity in oil gas fields US Netherlands. employ an event study investigate stock market reaction two majors, ExxonMobil Royal Dutch Shell. establish that participants’ response is positively...

A male miniature Dachshund, twenty-two months of age, was referred with paroxysmal generalized tremors as a main clinical sign. There were no abnormalities in the neurological examination except the lack of bilateral menace responses, and in the magnetic resonance imaging of its brain. Analysis of cerebro-spinal fluid revealed a slight rise in protein concentration and an increase in the number...

Electrodynamic shakers are widely used in experimental investigations of vibrated fluids and granular materials. However, they are plagued by undesirable internal resonances that can significantly impact the quality of vibration. In this work, we measure the performance of a typical shaker and characterize the influence that a payload has on its developed by Goldman (2002) [1] which consists of...

Vibration tests are widely employed in many industrial fields, and in particular in aerospace industry to evaluate the mechanical behavior of parts for aircrafts and satellites. Usually, these tests are carried out with shakers, while inertial accelerometers are used to measure the shaker table acceleration from which the vibration amplitude is computed. Some applications require the measuremen...

Electro hydraulic drives are often used where the dynamic response requirements of the driven load in terms of speed, cycling, accuracy and stability are particularly severe. One such application is the control and drive system associated with a high frequency hydraulic vibrator. A hydraulic shaker controls a valve which directs high pressure hydraulic fluid to generate controlled vibration. Hy...

The production of penicillin G acylase (PGA, an important industrial enzyme) from a wild strain of Bacillus megaterium using a pool of free amino acids as substrate was studied in a bench-scale bioreactor. Experiments carried out in shakers showed that the substitution of casein for free amino acids in the presence of cheese whey was the culture medium that provided the highest productivity. Se...

background non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is the most common form of liver disease in many parts of the world. objectives the aim of the present study was to identify the most important factors influencing nafld using a classification tree (ct) to predict the probability of nafld. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted in kavar, a town in the south of fars prov...