Private communication has been a concern throughout history. People have developed many clever ways to send secret messages to their partners in business, politics, war, and adultery. In the age of computer communication, we assume that anyone may examine the bits flying around the internet, and we use mathematical techniques to scramble the bits in our message so that it is intelligible only a...

This article describes how science and law were called upon (and failed) to resolve a controversy that created a painful rift between the Israeli State and some of its elite soldiers. The controversy, which came to be known as "the Kishon affair," erupted in 2000, when veterans of an elite and secretive unit in the Israeli navy claimed that pollution in the Kishon River where they had trained a...

The talmudic maxim "to save one life is tantamount to saving a whole world" (Sanhedrin 37a) indicates that the value of human life is infinite. A fraction of infinity is stil infinity. Nothing in this world is of higher value or greater ethical import than human life. Even Torah commandments of the Holy One, blessed be He, must give way to the higher value of preserving human life. The biblical...

More attractive women are more likely to be pursued as mates by men other than their long-term partner and, therefore, to place their partner at greater risk of cuckoldry (investing unwittingly in a child to whom he is genetically unrelated). Men partnered to more attractive women perform more mate retention behaviors – behaviors designed to thwart a woman’s infidelity. With greater risk of fem...

the purpose of the present study was to provide empirical support for the construct of the involvement load hypothesis (ilh ) in an efl context. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 4 intact groups consisting of 126 intermediate-level students participated in this experiment. in order to ensure that the participants were at the same level of english language proficiency, the nelson test was adm...

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:1118:"Male involvement in reproductive issues cannot be denied. However, throughout history, it is paid little attention to the role of men in reproductive health programs. At the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, the importance of men in reproductive health programs was recognized as one of the most important aspects. Since then, the invol...

this paper aims at studying governance and distribution of autonomies in tehran city islamic council in the process of performing intra/inter-organizational functions. according to current theories on governance, there are three types of governance according to the kinde of involvement. authority involvement, interactive involvement and persuasion involvement, in tehran city islamic council in ...

Using census data we identify geographic patterns in residency changes in Lesotho over a decade. Using kriging to spatially interpolate data from 8,510 households we identify regions where households have members temporarily living away from home (divided households). Further, using a multivariate analysis and data from 2,026 couples we determine whether a partners' absence increases the likeli...

OBJECTIVE To examine risk factors for injury to married women from domestic violence in Hong Kong. DESIGN Case control study. SETTING Regional public hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS All married women aged 18 to 60 years who attended an accident and emergency department for treatment of a domestic violence injury from January 2004 to June 2005. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Social and health chara...