I. ABSTRACT The Twenties in the United States began with the Red Scare, which was fueled by many Americans’ fearful reactions to the growth of Communism in Russia. Additionally, twentieth century Americans were dealing with new heroes, Jazz, racism, Prohibition, the assembly line, and the growth of movies and radio. All was well when the stock market soared and the speakeasies poured, the Charl...

Gods and heroes of Greek myths have been of interest to psychoanalysts, who find them as symbols of human intrapsychic life, evolution, and conflicts. Many of these gods and heroes, like Oedipus, Electra, Eros, and Narcissus, have had their names given to psychological situations, conflicts, and diseases. Freud picked the myth of Narcissus as a symbol of a self-absorbed person whose libido is i...

n root of a Lie algebra and its dual (that is fractional supergroup ) based on the permutation group Sn invariant forms is formulated in the Hopf algebra formalism. Detailed discussion of S3-graded sl(2) algebras is done.

We introduce the h-deformation of the algebra of functions on the grass-mann supergroup Gr(1|1) via a contraction of Gr q (1|1).

We show that in the context of topological string theories N branes and M anti-branes give rise to Chern-Simons gauge theory with the gauge supergroup U (N |M). We also identify a deformation of the theory which corresponds to brane/anti-brane annihilation.

Exact supersymmetry can be maintained on non-anticommutative superspace with a twisted coproduct on the supergroup.We show that the usual exchange statistics for the superfields is not compatible with the twisted action of the superpoincaré group and find a statistics which is consistent with the twisted coproduct and imply interesting phenomena such as mixing of fermions and bosons under parti...

As part of its 100th-anniversary celebration, the Pan American Health Organization has named 12 persons as "Public Health Heroes of the Americas" in recognition of their noteworthy contributions to public health in the Region of the Americas. Over the course of this year, the Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health will be carrying pieces written by or about ...

Pain is an experience including physiological and psychological factors. We assume that emotions may be elicited and increased through self-perceived role identity and that change of role identity alters quality and intensity of pain perception. We used role-play strategies to assess whether pain can be better tolerated whenever, in an unavoidable and unpleasant context, role identity confers p...

Even though myths have an imaginative component that frequently clashes with logical thinking, their symbolism often resonates with our collective unconscious. The divine inspiration that propels mythological heroes towards the noblest and highest ideals also carries the risk of taunting the jealousy of the gods. This may culminate in fatal results as has happened to Remus when he overstepped t...