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Eraldo Antonini Lectures, 1983–2019

twenty pages complete paper touching all aspects of the struggle of Italian scientists to work in the “curious amalgam of ingenuity and muddle, a reflection of the political system”. (Nature, 1983; 303

An Anthropological Perspective on Issues in Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of Rohingya

Myanmar and Sri Lanka are both countries with strong histories of Buddhism engrained in their political systems. Conflicts between Buddhist nationalist groups and Rohingya have led to ethnic ... defined by social hierarchy, faith, language or race. There is also polarization of social identity that manifests in a history of violence, political division, differences in quality of life, communities

Principles and biological concepts of heredity before Mendel

such as embryology, philosophy, jurisprudence, medicine, horticulture, and animal breeding [ 2–12 ]. Thus, the formation of the epistemic space of heredity as a scientific discipline required cross ... in terms of concepts familiar from natural history and Herder’s philosophy, and what causes the persistence of the process between generations. He draws parallels between the inheritance of certain

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Might Hit You With a Pocket Protector". 20. Silverstein, Illana. "First Contact: Improvisational Dance on Campus". 32. Dunson, Jim. "Philosophy of Pecan Pie: The Culmination of a Grand Tradition of Cu ... the Dole- keep me grounded and far from the heart of any republican, but the only explanation that I can offer is that love drums knows no boundaries, even political ones. My friends warned me against

Modeling epigenetic regulation of PRC1 protein accumulation in the cell cycle

-term dynamics of the population. To accomplish this, we follow the philosophy of a 1984 model by Kimmel et al., but adjust the details to fit the experimental data on protein PRC1 from a more recent ... the supplemental figure S1. Authors’ response: We included Figure S1 in the main body of the paper (currently Fig. 3) There is some typos. For example in the abstract “we follow the philosophy of a

Modeling epigenetic regulation of PRC1 protein accumulation in the cell cycle

dynamics of the population. To accomplish this, we follow the philosophy of a 1984 model by Kimmel et al., but adjust the details to fit the experimental data on protein PRC1 from a more recent paper. We ... this, we follow the philosophy of a 1984 model by Kimmel et al., but adjust the details to fit the experimental data on protein PRC1 from a more recent paper. Results We built a model of cell cycle

Are prime numbers special? Insights from the life sciences

philosophy. Evidence of prime numbers identification in humans Single‑case studies and quasi‑experimental evidence Oliver Sacks’ book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (1985) contains probably the most

Dancing With Hitler: Examining the Movements of the Nazi Movement and Geopolitics of Dance

Dancing With Hitler: Examining the Movements of the Nazi Movement and Geopolitics of Dance The physical location of the body combined with the political climate of a given culture plays critical role ... addressed.”1 But what happens when that greeting is manipulated by the political powers that be to create conformity, and obedience to the government? Can something as common to everyday life as how we greet

Dancing With Hitler: Examining the Movements of the Nazi Movement and Geopolitics of Dance

Dancing With Hitler: Examining the Movements of the Nazi Movement and Geopolitics of Dance The physical location of the body combined with the political climate of a given culture plays critical role ... whom it is addressed.”1 But what happens when that greeting is manipulated by the political powers that be to create conformity, and obedience to the government? Can something as common to everyday life

COVID-19 and iron dysregulation: distant sequence similarity between hepcidin and the novel coronavirus spike glycoprotein

. Author information Affiliations Theoretical and Philosophical Biology, Department of Philosophy, University College London, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Sepehr Ehsani Ronin Institute for Independent ... . student at the Department of Philosophy at University College London. Corresponding author Correspondence to Sepehr Ehsani. Ethics declarations Ethics approval and consent to participate Not

Refuting phylogenetic relationships

account. Here we address this dimension in the context of concatenation approaches to phylogeny. We discuss some of the limits of a methodology restricted to verificationism, the philosophy on which gene ... theories of epistemic philosophy. The authors ignore Bayesian approaches, in which the empirical relative frequency of a topology (determined by sampling from the equilibrium posterior probability

Refuting phylogenetic relationships

philosophy on which gene concatenation practices generally rely. As an alternative, we describe a software which identifies and focuses on impossible or refuted relationships, through a simple analysis of ... context of competing theories of epistemic philosophy. The authors ignore Bayesian approaches, in which the empirical relative frequency of a topology (determined by sampling from the equilibrium posterior

Forbidden Zone: Borden on the Borders of War and Gender

women to portray their inner lives and at the same time comment on the social and political contexts in which they live” (xii). She suggests that war literature and domestic literature are linked by ... , political and cultural elements of war created and destroyed. The merger of domestic literature, war literature and life become an attack on the foundation of masculine writing, whether intentional or not

Women in Popular Music Media: Empowered or Exploited?

to maintain the status quo, or was it space for political and social activism? Declaring my minor in Women and Gender Studies in the spring of my sophomore year reaffirmed my interest in this subject ... written about the new hypersexualized representation of women dominating the airwaves and have begun to theorize about the social and political implications. Particularly, scholars question what this

. Pluralism opposes monism. Pluralism in philosophy of science (and political philosophy) means the conviction that different models may be legitimate to analyze a phenomenon, and that conflict between them ... Department of Philosophy , NYU , USA 5 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut , USA 6 Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary , Calgary, Alberta , Canada 7 Department of

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Might Hit You With a Pocket Protector". 20. Silverstein, Illana. "First Contact: Improvisational Dance on Campus". 32. Dunson, Jim. "Philosophy of Pecan Pie: The Culmination of a Grand Tradition of Cu ... that love drums knows no boundaries, even political ones. My friends warned me against falling for him. They said things like Attempted Seduction of U.S. "He won't have any time for you, he'll always be

Why we don’t want another “Synthesis”

grind. We would not expect politicians to write unbiased political histories, but we biologists seem to trust our own kind, as if scientists can more easily transcend themselves. My generation of ... Evolution . Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2005 . 48. Winsor MP . The creation of the essentialism story: an exercise in metahistory . Hist Philos Life Sci

Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

philosophy of science (and political philosophy) means the conviction that different models may be legitimate to analyze a phenomenon, and that conflict between them need not be seen as invalidating one or ... Philosophy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (5) Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, USA (6) Department of Philosophy, NYU, USA (7) Département de sciences

Serological determinants of COVID-19

systematic use of health surveillance through a POCT might be a key factor in monitoring the epidemiological situation related to viral transmission, developing good socio-political strategies, with low cost

The Epidemic Domestic Sex Trafficking of Girls: Awareness and Prevention

with it? The political economy of Latino sex trafficking in the United States . Crime Law and Social Change , 62 , 571 - 584 . Countryman-Roswurm , K. , & Bolin , B. L. ( 2014 ). Domestic minor sex