An adaptationist programme has dominated evolutionary thought in england and the united states during the past forty years. It is based on faith in the power of natural selection as an optimizing agent. It proceeds by breaking an organism into unitary "traits" and proposing an adaptive story for each considered separately. Trade-offs among competing selective demands exert the only brake upon p...

Let Γ be a discrete group, and let M be a closed spin manifold of dimension m > 3 with π1(M) = Γ. We assume that M admits a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature. We discuss how to use the L-rho invariant ρ(2) and the delocalized eta invariant η associated to the Dirac operator on M in order to get information about the space of metrics with positive scalar curvature. In particular ...

The zonoid of a d-dimensional random vector is used as a tool for measuring linear dependence among its components. A preorder of linear dependence is defined through inclusion of the zonoids. The zonoid of a random vector does not characterize its distribution, but it characterizes the size biased distribution of its compositional variables. This fact will allow a characterization of our linea...

IMPACT OF PREGNANCY ON PROGNOSIS OF DIFFERENTIATED 1 THYROID CANCER: CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR FEATURES 2 3 Ilaria Messuti, Stefania Corvisieri, Francesca Bardesono, Ida Rapa1, Jessica Giorcelli1, 4 Riccardo Pellerito2, Marco Volante1, Fabio Orlandi 5 Endocrine Unit, Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Presidio Sanitario Gradenigo, 6 Turin, Italy 7 1 Pathology Unit, Department of Oncology...

EFFECTIVENESS OF SWITCHING FROM ORAL ZIPRASIDONE TO RISPERIDONE IN A PATIENT WITH COMORBID AUTISTIC DISORDER, PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, GILBERT SYNDROME, AND EXACERBATION OF PSYCHOSIS Antonio Del Casale, Georgios D. Kotzalidis, Michele Sacco, Chiara Rapinesi, Riccardo De Giorgi, Marco Giardini, Michele D’Andreagiovanni, Nicola Carlino, Roberto Brugnoli & Paolo Girardi Department of Neur...

This paper focuses on the preliminary implemen-tation and performances assessment of an un-manned aerial vehicles (U.A.V.) controller. Al-though not showing any innovative technical as-pect of the automatic flight control, it underlinesthe simplicity of building a complete low cost un-manned aerial vehicle starting from a commer-cially available Ardupilot Mega board,...

Abstract This article provides a first in-depth look at the La fonderia dell’Illmo et Ecc.mo Signor Don Antonio de’ Medici , publication that was issued Casino di San Marco in Florence 1604. work has been deemed to be lost by many scholars on Casino, but fact copy of it is found British Library. The analyses contents paying particular attention alchemy and Paracelsianism identified therein. pri...

Estimating absolute methylation levels at single-CpG resolution from methylation enrichment and restriction enzyme sequencing methods Michael Stevens, Jeffrey B. Cheng, Daofeng Li, Mingchao Xie, Chibo Hong, Cécile L. Maire, Keith L. Ligon, Martin Hirst, Marco A. Marra, Joseph F. Costello, and Ting Wang Department of Genetics, Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University...