The influence of temporal daily exposure to global system for mobile communications (GSM) and universal mobile telecommunications systems and high speed downlink packet access (UMTS-HSDPA) is investigated using spectrum analyser measurements in two countries, France and Belgium. Temporal variations and traffic distributions are investigated. Three different methods to estimate maximal electric-...

A 68-year-old male haemodialysis patient of Asian origin with end-stage renal failure was being evaluated for renal transplantation. His underlying renal disease was unknown. On examination, he was found to have a 13-mm hyperkeratotic nodule on the left foot, antero-medial to the lateral malleolus, with a surrounding area of hyper-pigmentation and lichenification (Figure 1, panel A). A clinical...

Group-focused moral foundations (GMFs) - moral values that help protect the group's welfare - sharply divide conservatives from liberals and religiously devout from non-believers. However, there is little evidence about what drives this divide. Moral foundations theory and the model of motivated social cognition both associate group-focused moral foundations with differences in conflict detecti...

(Today’s notes below are largely lifted with minor modifications from a survey by Arora, Hazan, Kale in Theory of Computing journal, Volume 8 (2012), pp. 121-164.) Today we study decision-making under total uncertainty: there is no a priori distribution on the set of possible outcomes. (This line will cause heads to explode among devout Bayesians, but it makes sense in many computer science set...

Belief in God's control of the world is common to many of the world's religions, but there are conflicting predictions regarding its role in shaping attitudes toward the welfare state. While the devout are expected to support pro-social values like helping others, and thus might be supportive of the welfare state, the possibility of taking action is undermined by the belief in God's absolute co...

BACKGROUND: Cases of undernutrition, such as stunting and wasting, in Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), Indonesia, was found to be relatively high. Therefore, local government launched a golden generation program called GEN NTB improve the quality human resources by achieving healthy, intelligent, devout, productive 2045. One genes known related with prosocial behavior is oxytocin transferase (OXTR) g...

Antonio Obá (b.1983) was born and grew up in Ceilândia, a dormitory town thirty kilometres outside of Brazil’s capital, Brasilia. Though this may not seem like an especially significant biographical detail considering Obá’s work – other writers, for example, have focused on the artist’s race devout Catholic upbringing­ I argue that foundational fact upbringing experience is more telling than fi...

This paper is an inquiry into a contemporary heavy metal band from Sweden called Ghost. Ghost released its first studio album in 2010 and, while there some discussion as to what their genre exactly, they immediately became rising star the scene. Yet of particular interest storytelling point view, especially with regard theological answers philosophical questions popular culture, that presents i...