The secular changes of height and body mass of girls and boys in the Bydgoszcz region in the period between 1935 and 1991 have been presented in this paper. Over the period of 56 years changes of the traits under investigation showed periodical diversification. Between 1935-1946 a regress was observed, between 1952 and 1971 the greatest average secular changes took place, the years from 1972 to...

Do political-Islamic elites need to be democrats for participation in democracy, how do their values compare to secular elites’, and how do their values change through participation and affect democratization itself? A comparative-systematic content analysis of three Islamic-conservative and two pro-secular Turkish newspapers over nine years shows that, overall, political-Islamic elites adopt d...

In this study, we apply quantum master equations beyond secular approximation and investigate the nonequilibrium thermodynamic cost of enhanced metrology correlations. We find that conditions enhance Fisher information (QFI) correlations predominantly for weak tunneling scenarios. The enhancement is assisted by a corresponding increase in characterized entropy production rate (EPR). For strong ...

An introductory exploration of the mechanical influence of long-term gyricity or gyroscopic effect on the dynamics of the Earth is presented. Gyricity exists in a deformable, energy-dissipating, and thus rotationally unstable Earth in the form of internal torques, or the rate of change of angular momentum independent of external torques. The kinematics of the internal torques appear compatible ...

Atheists are distrusted in societies with religious majorities. However, relatively little is known about the underlying reasons for this phenomenon. Previous evidence suggests that distrust of atheists is in part the result of believers thinking that being under supernatural surveillance by a watchful God underlies moral behavior. However, secular rule of law, including institutions such as po...

Ethics is a concept used by people in everyday life. Apart from ethics existing in the wider social environment (secular ethics), another form of ethics found in a specific environment has been supported, that of Christian Ethics. While secular ethics has been studied quite intensely through a variety of theories, the issue of Christian Ethics especially within the framework of Orthodox Church ...

In the inner solar system, the planets' orbits evolve chaotically, driven primarily by secular chaos. Mercury has a particularly chaotic orbit and is in danger of being lost within a few billion years. Just as secular chaos is reorganizing the solar system today, so it has likely helped organize it in the past. We suggest that extrasolar planetary systems are also organized to a large extent by...

Recent religious studies and international relations scholarship has highlighted secularism as a critical element in dominant modes of identity, power, and exclusion in global politics. Yet, the implications of these insights for global justice theory and practice have rarely been considered. This article suggests that the current dominance of secularism within global justice theory and practic...

We introduce a class Cn of n × n structured matrices which includes three well-known classes of generalized companion matrices: tridiagonal plus rank-one matrices (comrade matrices), diagonal plus rank-one matrices and arrowhead matrices. Relying on the structure properties of Cn, we show that if A ∈ Cn then A′ = RQ ∈ Cn, where A = QR is the QR decomposition of A. This allows one to implement t...