background: diabetes is a worldwide problem nowadays. the present study was designed to assess the productivity of research on diabetes and to evaluate the gap between the burden of diabetes and research on diabetes, in both developed and developing countries. materials and methods: an extensive search in pubmed database for diabetes publications, using diabetes as the mesh term, was carried ou...

this article is an investigation into the nature of the sufi metaphysics of gadr ad-dìn qinawì and his followers. in contrast to previous scholars, who have considered qinawì to be dismissive of philosophy in a way similar to ghazålì, the author shows that in fact philosophical metaphysics, and in particular the formulations of ibn sìnå, had a great impact on qinawì and his followers in the sch...

The Bone Wars is an original educational video game about the historic 19th-century feud between rival paleontologists, Othniel C. Marsh and Edward D. Cope. This two-player game explores their race to claim dig sites and discover new species, but its only by publishing their results that the players earn the fame that delivers victory. Just as their historic characters did, a successful player ...

Modern mobile devices come with first class web browsers that rival their desktop counterparts in power and popularity. However, recent publications point out that mobile browsers are particularly susceptible to attacks on web authentication, such as phishing or clickjacking. We analyze those attacks and find that existing countermeasures from desktop computers can not be easily transfered to t...

This paper focuses on fiction electronic books and their usability. Two complementary studies were drawn together in order to investigate whether fiction e-books can successfully become part of people’s reading habits: the Visual Book project, which found that electronic texts which closely resemble their paper counterparts in terms of visual components such as size, quality and design were rec...

We examined whether dynamic stimulation that surrounds a rival target influences perceptual alternations during binocular rivalry. We presented a rival target surrounded by dynamic random-dot patterns to both eyes, and measured dominance durations for each eye's rival target. We found that rival target dominance durations were longer when surrounds were dynamic than when they were static or abs...