The article problematises the assumption that modern society is characterised by institutional differentiation as a unidirectional process. Inspired Deleuze’s sketch of ‘society control’, in this authors explore de-differentiation contemporary society. They illustrate process developments penal institution, employing empirical materials from Norwegian prison system. show how institution increas...

A border of a string is a prefix of the string that is simultaneously its suffix. It is one of the basic stringology keystones used as a part of many algorithms in pattern matching, molecular biology, computerassisted music analysis and others. The paper discusses automata-theoretical background of Iliopoulos’s ALL BORDERS algorithm that finds all borders of a string with don’t care symbols. We...

Once upon a time, a handful of North American physiologists decided to create a social scientific network and called it the American Physiological Society (APS). Fast forward 125 years to the present and we find that APS has grown to 10,500 members, over a dozen research and review journals, a yearly budget of nearly $18 million, and an annual meeting that attracts over 10,000 scientists worldw...

We are launching the Teaching and Learning (T&L) section of Global Mental Health (GMH) in a spirit of celebration grounded in deep awareness of responsibility. In concert with the Journal’s mission of moving from making the case to implementing GMH (Belkin, 2014), the T&L section’s mandate is the public health need for effective and widely accessible mental health teaching and learning methods,...

Cooperative social groups rely on the ability to distinguish members from nonmembers. Accordingly, social insects have evolved a variety of systems that allow discrimination of nest mates from non–nest mates. In this study, we show that experience can modify patterns of intraspecific aggression in Argentine ants (Linepithema humile). In laboratory experiments, we found that aggression between c...

Cocaine abuse is relatively common in our society. To enhance profitability and acceptability of the product, it is not uncommon for illicit drugs to undergo several processes. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has reported that seventy percent (70%) of cocaine seized at USA borders has been adulterated with levamisole, previously used as chemotherapeutic and immunomodulator for several conditi...