Abstract Three key characteristics of effective electoral mobilizers have been identified in the literature: reputation, embeddedness local community, and ability to reward sanction voters. Religious leaders may possess all these characteristics. Can they favor their preferred candidates? Using a novel data set connections between politicians Italian Catholic bishops throughout twentieth centur...

Carvedilol is an adrenoceptor antagonist which modulates the activity not only of beta 1 and beta 2 but also of alpha 1 adrenergic receptors present on the cell surface membrane of the human cardiac myocyte. In the heart, carvedilol has approximately 7 times higher potency for beta 1 and beta 2 adrenoceptors, but in the doses 50-100 mg . day-1 used in clinical practice, it is essentially non-se...

A characterization of Ti-Beta zeolites synthesized under various conditions as well as an investigation of their photocatalytic properties for the reduction of CO2 with H2O at 323 K to produce CH4 and CH3OH were carried out. In situ XAFS spectra measurements indicated that a highly dispersed tetrahedral titanium oxide species was present in the zeolite framework and an increase in the coordinat...

IT is known that the game of chess originated in India. It was passed on to the medieval West through the intermediary of the Persians and the Arabs, a fact to which we owe, for example, the expression "check-mate", (German: Schachmatt) which is derived from the Persian shah: "king" and the Arabic mat: "he is dead". At the time of the Renaissance some of the rules of the game were changed: the ...

By means of the Ehrhart theory of inside-out polytopes we establish a general counting theory for nonattacking placements of chess pieces with unbounded straight-line moves, such as the queen, on a polygonal convex board. The number of ways to place q identical nonattacking pieces on a board of variable size n but fixed shape is (up to a normalization) given by a quasipolynomial function of n, ...

In response to the rapid spread of coronavirus epidemic, state authorities in Poland—as other countries—decided introduce various restrictions on rights and freedoms, including freedom practise religion. The purpose this study is analyse evaluate position taken by ministers Catholic Church Poland her faithful towards these during first wave pandemic. An analysis source material, documents publi...

LAETITIA PILKINGTON FONDLY RECALLED the society kept by Mrs Philip Perceval in the Dublin of the 1720s. ‘This belle assembly engaged the company of all the learned and polite world; every night was a drawing-room, and the ingenious and curious of both sexes went home delighted and improved.’1 Another Dublin resident retained similar memories from the 1730s. Thomas Rundle, the bishop of Derry, h...

In the paper, by virtue of an integral representation Dirichlet beta function, with aid a relation between function and Euler numbers, means monotonicity rule for ratio two definite integrals parameter, author finds increasing property logarithmic convexity functions sequences involving their ratios.