Darwin's On the Origin of Species[1] introduced the world to the most fundamental concept in biological sciences - evolution. However, in the 150 years following publication of his seminal work, much has been made of the fact that Darwin was missing at least one crucial link in his chain of evidence - he had no evidence for contemporary evolution through natural selection. Indeed, as one commen...

Recent empirical research on voter turnout has revealed a variety of regularities. Citizens who expect to be asked about their decisions after the elections are more likely vote. Parents whose children enter electorate vote when live home than they left home. without social networks acquire less information politics. We develop model that can explain these and other findings. In our model, citi...

Cet article s’intéresse aux différentes réponses des pouvoirs publics face à un conflit d’aménagement contre le projet d’une immense décharge Shies (région d’Arkhangelsk), situé dans Grand Nord russe et devant recevoir de grands volumes déchets ménagers Moscou. En prenant comme traceur la façon dont l’État...

This paper pinpoints some of the problems faced when a computer text production model (COMMENTATOR) is to produce spontaneous speech, in particular the problem of chunking the utterances in order to get natural prosodic units. The paper proposes a buffer model which allows the accumulation and delay of phonetic material until a chunk of the desired size has been built up. Several phonetic studi...

This project aimed to discuss how the adaptations and negotiating of socio-political issues are discovered in painting throughout creativity work making. The artistic research supported whole phases for this project, which begin with visual analysis, selecting possible imagery studio logistic artwork development stimulates different formulation character artwork. They have included where comple...

This article studies the Turkish-German writer Kemal Kurt’s Ja, sagt Molly (1998) [‘Yes, says Molly’], an ironic meta-fiction to which little critical attention has been paid. Kurt questions the representation of Turks as untutored aspirants to Western culture and challenges the traditional images of exclusion and discrimination. Through a study of his use of pastiche and references to World Li...

“Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future” provides a broadranging discussion of issues raised by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) 2011 Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to revise the Common Rule. Three years on, it’s unclear whether this effort to revise the Common Rule is still alive, but this volume confirms that there are good reason...