This Special Issue of BioSystems is devoted to clarifying the concept, and to showing how it’s being used in various examples of empirical research. Given the obscurity that still attends the concept, however, we shouldn’t expect to find that all the ’clarifications’ are equivalent--or even mutually consistent. Similarly, we shouldn’t expect to find that the notion is applied identically in all...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 351 HUMAN SUBJECT RESEARCH UNFETTERED ........................................... 353 DISCRIMINATION – TELLING RIGHT FROM WRONG ............................... 355 DON’T BLAME THE MACHINE ................................................................ 358 FRAGMENTATION OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE...........

The paper concerns the issue of risky play, previously unknown in Poland. It presents an overview findings to date this area and results preliminary quantitative research. When designing study, we took into account fact that there are noticeable cultural differences attitude play (Guldberg 2009), therefore aim was find out about opinions Polish parents type activity. study uses method a diagnos...

Drought is a major problematic phenomenon for the mostly semi-arid country of Iran. The north centralregions of Iran (north of Esfahan and Ghom province) have suffered from severe droughts several times duringthe last three decades. The frequent occurrence of drought in these regions is due to low and inconsistentprecipitation, abnormally high temperatures, increases in surface albedo and evapo...

the current study examines contradictions in muhammad mahdi al-jawahiri’s political poetry. al-jawahiri led most of his life amidst the turmoil caused by the political events and developments that iraq has undergone through different periods beginning with the 1920 revolution led by religious leaders and ending with al-ba‘th party and saddam hussein. al-jawahiri has beencontradictory in his poe...