Steno's inability to explain an affair of the soul such as pain in terms of the impact of matter reveals the dualist split between science and religion which makes itself increasingly perceptible at the time and seems to have troubled him fundamentally. Had earlier scientific men such as Harvey and Van Helmont been perhaps happier in their monist view of the world and of the 'working-matter' in...

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, more commonly known as ACES or the Waxman-Markey bill, after its sponsors, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA). Currently, the United States Senate is beginning to work on its version of climate change legislation; it is widely understood that the En...

In May last year Londoners elected a mayor by direct vote for the first time. The mayor and the London Assembly, together forming the Greater London Authority (GLA), have an electorate of seven million people and command resources of almost 6 billion euros. Four appointed committees—the police authority, the fire and emergency planning authority, TraYc for London and the London Development Agen...

Mayor is a real-time player of the popular simulation game SimCity. Since SimCity is a complex, dynamic world, players must make do with a partial understanding of how the world works. Mayor contends with an incomplete world model by using a case-based planner which repairs plans on expectation failures, and with experience can improve its case library. SimCity players must also be able to quic...

De otro lado, es también posible que un trabajo de investigación, a pesar de tener revisión y aprobación de un CE, no lo consigne en su publicación. Esto puede atribuirse a desconocimiento de las normas editoriales, la falta de capacitación en ética en publicación y poca cultura en publicación que existe en la comunidad médica peruana (5), esta afirmación se confirmaría si tomamos en cuenta que...

We suggest that the observed break in giant-planet frequency as a function of host metallicity at Z = 0.02 may be a reflection of bimodal planet formation. We search for signatures of this bimodality in the distributions of the planet eccentricities, periods, masses, and multiplicity. However, the low-metallicity sample is at present too small to test for any but the most severe differences in ...

The CoRoT exoplanet programme: exploring the gas-giant/terrestrial planet transition Abstract. CoRoT, which was launched successfully on the 27 th of December 2006, is the first space mission to have the search for planetary transits at the heart of its science programme. It is expected to be able to detect transits of planets with radii down to approximately two Earth radii and periods up to a...

Resumen.—Otis tarda es el ave con mayor dimorfismo sexual y una de las de mayor peso entre las que conservan la capacidad de vuelo. Los machos adultos capturados en España fueron 2.48 veces más pesados que las hembras y sus medidas lineales un 18–30% mayores que las de las hembras. Entre finales del invierno y la estación reproductiva el peso medio aumentó en un 16% en las hembras y en un 20% e...