during the 1960s, the relatively new approaches like environmental warfare and intentional environmental deterioration came in to the global security and strategic literature. till now, through different conventional and unconventional wars, the governments have imposed intentional and unintentional adverse effects on the environment some of which are lasting for decades. the application of wea...

The harvest media from five strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa collected from severe clinical infections did not contain a collagenase. Instead, an enzyme was isolated that could degrade the ground substance of the cornea. Partial purification of this enzyme indicated that it was the only enzyme in the harvest media that cotdd destroy the rabbit cornea after intralamellar injection. Na2EDTA comp...

Toward the end of the 1770s, a poet writing at the request of a powerful Buddhist monk on the island we now know as Sri Lanka juxtaposed four images of Lankan Buddhist life. The first, with which he described the time before his patron’s monastic order came into being, was an image of darkness, hypocrisy, and delusion. It described a time in which, according to the poet, Buddhist monks betrayed...

Based in current debates in aesthetics, we examined whether people’s beliefs match philosophers’ arguments that an original painting or carved sculpture possesses a privileged nature when compared with originals in other types of art. We tested whether participants believe the destruction of an original art piece has different consequences on the ability to experience that piece if the art is v...