What leads humans to divide the social world into groups, preferring their own group and disfavoring others? Experiments with infants and young children suggest these tendencies are based on predispositions that emerge early in life and depend, in part, on natural language. Young infants prefer to look at a person who previously spoke their native language. Older infants preferentially accept t...

In the book Symbolism of Summer Solstice: Comparative Readings, Iosefina Blazsani-Batto approaches, through a comparative perspective, theme with wide resonances in Romanian folkloric mythology, but also universal one, taken up by many historians religions, exegetes and, last not least, writers. The area research reflects author's desire to document as well possible scholarly approach and give ...

Background. Alcohol and nicotine are commonly coabused. The search for a common core of neural, behavioral, and genetic factors underlying addiction has been the goal of addiction research. Purpose. Genetic predisposition to high alcohol intake has been studied in rats by selectively breeding rats that have high preference for alcohol. The current experiments were conducted to determine if the ...

BACKGROUND Alternative treatments are commonly used for various disorders and often taken on-demand. On-demand treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with pharmaceutical products is an established, cost-effective strategy. Comparisons between alternative medicine and pharmaceutical products are rare. The aim of this trial was to compare on-demand treatment with a pectin-based, raft...

Kültürel etkileşimler ve değişimler sebebiyle toplum bireyler üzerinde din ahlak ilkelerinin etkisinin azalması, insanların düşünce dünyasında birtakım değişikliklere yol açmaktadır. Özellikle son yıllarda hız kazanan bu anlayış, temel haklar konusunda da görüş farklılıkları meydana getirmiştir. Temel içinde önemli yer tutan yaşam hakkı farklılıklardan etkilenmiştir. Gelinen noktada kişiler seb...

The accurate identification of bay leaf in natural products commerce may often be confusing as the name is applied to several different species of aromatic plants. The true "bay leaf", also known as "bay laurel" or "sweet bay", is sourced from the tree Laurus nobilis, a native of the Mediterranean region. Nevertheless, the leaves of several other species including Cinnamomum tamala, Litsea glau...