The sixteenth century inherited three discourses on melancholy: the medical, philosophical, and religious ones. While first presented it as a mental illness linked to disorder of humours, second, with rediscovery Aristotle’s Problem XXX, saw sign creative genius, third reminded us that was, according Saint Jerome’s expression, balneum diaboli; allowed Satan take possession patient’s mind, causi...

The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) is a medium-sized Australian marsupial carnivore that has recently undergone a rapid and severe population decline over the 10 years to 2009, with no sign of recovery. This decline has been linked to a period of unfavourable weather, but subsequent improved weather conditions have not been matched by quoll recovery. A recent study suggested another mechan...

Dust devils occur in arid climates on the Earth and ubiquitously on Mars, where they likely dominate the supply of atmospheric dust and influence climate. Martian dust devils have been studied with a combination of orbiting and landed spacecraft, while most studies of terrestrial dust devils have involved manned monitoring of field sites, which can be costly both in time and personnel. As an al...

The association of women with caring dispositions and thinking has become a persistent theme in recent feminist writing. There are a number of reasons for this. One reason is the impetus that has been provided by the empirical work of Carol Gilligan on women's moral development. The fact that this association is not merely an ideologically or philosophically postulated one, but is argued for on...

The largest living carnivorous marsupial, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), is the sole survivor of a lineage originating about 12 Ma. We set out to investigate the spectrum of transposable elements found in the Tasmanian devil genome, the first high-coverage genome of an Australian marsupial. Marsupial genomes have been shown to have the highest amount of transposable elements among ...

Introduction: During August 03 a dust devil field investigation campaign was conducted in the El Dorado Valley, Nevada. This field site has been well characterised previously [9], and has a well documented record of dust devil events. We report on one particular encounter from this field campaign, whereby a dust devil was sampled by a large number of sensors. These measurements consist of wind ...