Strategically Tuned Absolutely Resilient Structures (STARS) are being designed to store potential energy in the form of elastic deformation that can be released in a controlled fashion as work or kinetic energy. This paper outlines steps being taken to monitor the structural health of STARS by making modifications to a Remote Readiness Asset Prognostic and Diagnostic System (RRAPDS). The latter...

Britain is a country with modest gold deposits. At least six tonnes, possibly up to ten tonnes, of gold have been recovered from numerous localities in Britain. Recent discoveries have revealed another six tonnes in Scotland and over 30 tonnes in Northern Ireland, with the likelihood of more to be found. A new mine in Northern Ireland is producing several thousand ounces of gold per year. These...

The Obama administration in the USA, the Cameron government in the UK, and other donors talk almost daily about developing countries owning and directing their health programmes. But are donors ready to do so? And what would that look like? In most cases, donors control exactly how their money will be spent. The donor defi nes the priorities. We have some ideas to change the dynamic, from the b...

Giorgio Vasari argued that the polyvalent term disegno in the Cinquecento should unite the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture in the Accademia del Disegno. The nature of invention, or invenzione in the united arts, was not as united; it was not the same for architecture as it was for painting. Alberti, as is well known, argued for the status of painting to be a liberal art modelled on...

The honey possum Tarsipes rostratus, a marsupial endemic to south-western Australia, feeds exclusively upon nectar and pollen. It is one of the smallest marsupials, with adult females (8-12g) significantly larger than adult males (6-9g). Honey possum males have the longest sperm (356μm) recorded for any mammal and the testes represent 4.2% body weight, amongst the largest recorded for mammal sp...

This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments. Many adherents regard as spiritually hazardous because the genre is perceived hold Afro-Brazilian religious...

Being male is the strongest demographic predictor of early mortality in Croatia. For every woman who dies between the ages of 15 and 34, three men die. Between the ages of 15 and 54, men are four times as likely as women to die from behavioral causes of death, such as accidents, homicides, and suicides. A causal explanation for sex differences in mortality must be based on an understanding of h...

With the notable exception of his paleolithic feminism,1 Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) was a twenty-first-century writer writing in twentieth century. As early as 1960s, he anticipated much twenty-first century's information technology and biotechnology—tablets, personal computers, smart phones, eBooks, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, holograms, advanced prosthetics, human-machi...

This paper outlines a critique of Western biomedical theories of what is called mental illness, and presents an alternative way of responding to mental health problems in people from non-Western cultures. The critique, based on what has been called 'postpsychiatry', problematizes some of the key assumptions that underpin the theory and practice of psychiatry, particularly the problem of how it ...

At present the basic intellectual aim of academic inquiry is to improve knowledge. Much of the structure, the whole character, of academic inquiry, in universities all over the world, is shaped by the adoption of this as the basic intellectual aim. But, judged from the standpoint of making a contribution to human welfare, academic inquiry of this type is damagingly irrational. Three of four of ...