Prehistoric Man and Beast

Symbolism in prehistoric man.

The aptitude for symbolization, characteristic of man, is revealed not only in artistic representations and funerary practices. It is exhibited by every manifestation of human activity or representation of natural phenomena that assumes or refers to a meaning. We can recognize functional symbolism (tool-making, habitative or food technology), social symbolism, (language and social communication...

Man versus beast: pharmacokinetic scaling in mammals.

Land mammals range in size from the 3-g shrew to the 3000-kg elephant. Despite this 10(6) range in weight, most land mammals have similar anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and cellular structure. This similarity has allowed interspecies scaling of physiologic properties such as heart rate, blood flow, blood volume, organ size, and longevity. The equation that is the basis for scaling physiolog...

Beauty and the Beast

Is it really true that “All Scripture is inspired by God?” (2 Ti 3:16). Some feminist theologians argue that the Bible is nothing but male-centered works that are critically tainted with androcentrism. Nevertheless, the belief that the Bible was written completely by the revelation of God has legalized that the rights of women have been oppressed by the biased Christian doctrines. Today feminis...

Man vs beast the human-animal boundary in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

The Beauty and the Beast

This paper presents a method for programming window-based I/O in a pure functional language. This method enables the programmer to specify interactions at a very high level of abstraction. It employs a machine independent declarative specification of devices such as windows, dialogues and menus. These devices are specified via predefined algebraic data types containing event handlers (user defi...