We reply to the recent criticism by Garriga and Tanaka of our proposal that quantum gravitational loop corrections may lead to a secular screening of the effective cosmological constant. Their argument rests upon a renormalization scheme in which the composite operator (R √−g − 4Λ√−g )ren is defined to be the trace of the renormalized field equations. Although this is a peculiar prescription, w...

In forensic investigation, there are difficulties in stature and gender estimation of bodies dismembered in mass destruction and criminal mutilation. An individual’s hand or foot, when recovered and brought for forensic examination, can provide valuable information about a person’s identity. Stature provides insight into various features of a population, including nutrition, health and genetics...

Some findings from these data were presented as a poster at the 6th International Symposium on Diabetes and Pregnancy conference in Salzburg, Austria in March 2011. ABSTRACT Objectives: This paper reports secular trends in diabetes in pregnancy in Victoria, Australia and examines the effect of including or excluding women with pre-existing diabetes on gestational diabetes (GDM) prevalence estim...

This article aims to identify and compare the characteristics of human agency in liberal Islamic religious education, comparing Iran as a context influenced by state ideology with Finland secular ideology. comparison will be accomplished document analysis national curricula for education Finland. Methodologically, comparative study deductive content-analysis approach employed. The paper provide...

The issue of modernity that is crucial today the development secularism in various fields. One main things to highlight popularity secularism, which has a worldview contrary Muslims. It was Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas who most vocal voicing his criticism and proposing solutions he offered form concept Islamization Present Day Knowledge. research method used by author descriptive analysis anal...

"Freethinkers," including both atheists and secular humanists, have always been a minority in American society--and not a very popular one. There are still laws in several states preventing non-theists from holding office. Just as evangelical Protestants up until one hundred years ago held a largely optimistic view of the future and the end times (known as postmillennialism), secular humanists ...

We study a series of N−body simulations representing elliptical galaxies with central masses. Starting from two different systems with smooth centres, which have initially a triaxial configuration and are in equilibrium, we insert to them central masses of various values. Immediately after such an insertion a system presents a high fraction of particles moving in chaotic orbits, a fact causing ...

BACKGROUND The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial (SW-CRT) is increasingly being used to evaluate policy or service delivery interventions. However, there is a dearth of trials literature addressing analytical approaches to the SW-CRT. Perhaps as a result, a significant number of published trials have major methodological shortcomings, including failure to adjust for secular trends at the a...

abstract background: secular trends in stature, weight and mid upper arm circumference (muac) of 2397 school children (1268 boys and 1129 girls) of the same age (6.5-11.5 years) and sex in representative samples from primary schools of shiraz (southern iran) at an interval of 15 years (1988 vs 2003) are reported. methods: cross-sectional weight, height and mid upper arm circumference (muac) cur...