As the North Eastern town of Middlesbrough was trying on for size a new robe as ‘Digital City’ fitted to re-generate the impoverished industrial underwear, while the skinny ribs of petrochemical and steel still poked out the sky a proposal was made: Some personal and humanist space in the digital fabric of a virtual architectural model. We planned to appropriate a town-planning model and experi...

or certain more curious and disenchanted spirits, the pleasure of ugliness comes from an even more mysterious sentiment, which is a thirst for the unknown and a taste for the horrible, " wrote Charles Baudelaire. " It is this sentiment, the germ of which all of us carry inside to a greater or lesser degree, that drives certain poets into clinics and anatomy theaters, and women to public executi...

Abstract Background Predicting the potential habitat of Phytolacca americana, a high-risk invasive species, can help provide scientific basis for its quarantine and control strategies. Using optimized MaxEnt model, we applied latest climate data, CMIP6, to predict distribution risk zones their change patterns P . americana under current future (SSP126, SSP245, SSP585) conditions, followed by in...

It is shown that quantum mechanical systems obtained from a heuristic path integral quantization of lagrangians of the form L = ∑ n 1 n! fn(q)q̇ n violate in general the correspondence principle, unless L is not more than quadratic in q̇. The field theoretic counterpart of this result and its consequence on models of interacting scalar and vector fields and particularly the electroweak interactio...

A case of selective IgM deficiency with giant leiomyoma of the stomach in a 66-year-old male is reported. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from the patient synthesized only a small amount of IgM in the presence of pokeweed mitogen (PWM) in vitro. Co-culture of counterpart lymphocytes from the patient and a disease-free individual revealed that increased activity of IgM-specific suppressor T l...

Acetaldehyde (ACD) is the first metabolite of ethanol. Although, the role of ACD in ethanol addiction has been controversial, there are data showing a relationship. The objective of the current study was to further test the hypothesis that ACD itself is reinforcing. For this reason, we carried out a study on operant oral ACD self-administration. Wistar rats were trained to self-administer tap w...

Seven subjects with prior coccidioidal disease and three with active Coccidioides immitis infection during their first trimester were studied during pregnancy and postpartum to determine their general and antigen-specific cell-mediated immune status. All ten were white and carried their pregnancies to term without incident. Decreases in total lymphocytes and T-helper and T-suppressor subsets we...

Sniffing, a rhythmic inhalation and exhalation of air through the nose, is a behavior thought to play a critical role in shaping how odor information is represented and processed by the nervous system. Although the mouse has become a prominent model for studying olfaction, little is known about sniffing behavior in mice. Here, we characterized mouse sniffing behavior by measuring intranasal pre...

Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from mink with progressive Aleutian disease (AD) were shown to be significantly less responsive to phytohemagglutinin, concanavalin A, and pokeweed mitogen than were PBL from normal mink and from mink with a nonprogressive form of AD. Response to the virus of AD was significantly greater in PBL cultures from mink with nonprogressive AD than in those from norma...