This study presents results from stable isotope analyses of a modern stalagmite and three soda straw stalactites from Kapsia Cave, the Peloponnese, Greece. The resulting values from the stalagmite are put into context of local meteorological data, as well as previous research from Kapsia Cave. The potential for using soda straw stalactites as complementary climate archives on shorter time scale...

The purpose of this paper is to describe educational efforts to increase dental students' knowledge concerning oral and systemic health effects of carbonated beverage (soda/pop) consumption. Multiple choice pre- and post-tests were developed and administered to seventy-three first-year dental students. An educational brochure was developed and distributed during a lecture on the effects of soda...

BACKGROUND Health concerns over soda pop drinks have been severally report. However, histological perspectives are not very common. AIM The objective of this study is to investigate histological effect of chronic consumption of soda pop drinks on the kidney of adult Wistar rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS The rats of both sexes (n = 24), with average weight of 200g were randomly assigned into tw...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.06.010 ⇑ Tel.: +55 11 3799 7755; fax: +55 11 3262 3876. E-mail addresses: [email protected], iongeo The literature on multimethodology indicates that cognitive mapping is relevant to enriching the preliminary, information-gathering phase of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), and especially the rich pictur...

The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum expresses three genes (sodA, sodB and sodC) encoding the extracellular Cu/Zn superoxide dismutases. Following H(2)O(2) treatment, the expression of sodA and sodB increased while that of sodC decreased. The sodC null strain formed multinucleate cells in a shaking culture. These results suggest that sodC plays a unique role in Dictyostelium discoid...

We implemented variations on the Self-Organizing Distinctive State Abstraction model for robot state-discretization and task-learning in a Khepera robot. We conclude that hill-climbing as implementd in [5] is detrimental in embodied robots. Because the ultimate goal of developmental systems is intelligent, embodied robots, we believe that implementation in physical robots is an important test o...