Around 1200 AD, a number of remarkable rock churches were constructed in Lalibela, a town in northern Ethiopia. One construction manner stands apart in its uniqueness. This is the rock-hewn monolithic church, which while imitating a built-up structure is actually cut in one piece from the rock and separated from it by an all-around trench. The best known of the monolithic churches is Bet Giorgi...

Gemiler Island is located in southwestern Turkey and is known as the “Island of St. Nicholas”. This saint was the origin of our present-day Santa Claus. The island itself is small and measures 1000 by 400 m but it still contains an entire medieval city with antiquated structures such as churches, houses and so on. According to the style of architecture and decoration of the churches, the city i...

INTRODUCTION Evidence-based health promotion programs that are disseminated in community settings can improve population health. However, little is known about how effective such programs are when they are implemented in communities. We examined community implementation of an evidence-based program, Body and Soul, to promote consumption of fruits and vegetables. METHODS We randomly assigned 1...

The South African society continues to stagger under an immense wave of corruption in both the private and the public sectors. Corruption is the misuse of public office or a position of authority for private, material or social gain at the expense of other people. The aim of this investigation is to discuss the phenomenon from a moral point of view and to suggest moral directives and ways that ...

Extensive objective energy-based parameters have been measured in 12 Mudejar-Gothic churches in the south of Spain. Measurements took place in unoccupied churches according to the ISO-3382 standard. Monoaural objective measures in the 125-4000 Hz frequency range and in their spatial distributions were obtained. Acoustic parameters: clarity C80, definition D50, sound strength G and center time T...

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p class="Cuerpo">The Omega ratio has been widely used in the literature to optimize and search for good performance investment portfolios. It considers both downside upside potential of portfolio with respect a predetermined threshold, which can be fixed or time varyi...

Contrary to the situation in adulthood, gammabutyric acid (GABA)A receptor activation during early brain development depolarizes neurons sufficiently to open L-type voltage-gated Ca channels. Because GABA is excitatory during the sensitive period of steroid-mediated brain sexual differentiation, we investigated whether estradiol modulates excitatory GABA during this period, by examining two par...

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We have studied the developmental changes of glutamate-induced calcium (Ca²⁺) response in primary cultured hippocampal neurons at three different stages of cultures, 3, 7-8, and 14-16 days in vitro (DIV), using fura-2 single-cell digital micro-fluorimetry. We found that glutamate-induced Ca²⁺ signaling was altered during development, and that two different ionotropic glutamate receptors, α-amin...