Identity has remained a popular concept for many decades, being widely used in scientific research. This reflects not only the importance of phenomena standing behind this notion, but also wide and deep changes accompanying transition societies from industrial to post-industrial, late modern, post-modern, network or information society. Regardless disputes about nature new era, researchers agre...

one hand, it traces the historical sources of the modern understanding of selfhood. On the other hand, and perhaps more important, Sources of the Self aims to contribute to the reconstruction of that same understanding of selfhood. Specifically, it promotes the view that our description of the self should be radically revised so as to take seriously the interdependent claims that values have ob...

The eating habits of society as a whole have drastically changed over the last few decades. The influx of technology, advertising, images in the media and changes within modern cultural and family values play a big role in the psychological evolution of consumers in the food service industry. My goal is to discover how the images in advertisements and media influence our desire to purchase food...

The two ancient civilizations of Iran and India, due to their long-standing cultural, political and economic relations, have had a relative cognition of each other's identity, which has, over time, become more logical, complete, and at times symbolic. Undoubtedly, in order to understand the history of Iran and India in ancient times and how these two nations interacted, we must inevitably find ...

In the field of wireless sensor networks, the measurements that deviate from the normal behaviour of sensed data are taken to be as outliers. The potential sources of outliers can be noise and errors, events, and malicious attacks on the network. This paper give an overview of existing outlier detection techniques specifically developed for the wireless sensor networks. Also, a technique-based ...

The paper presents a shift in the research focus concerning the Holocaust survivors – from investigating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder to discovering the sources of strength enabling their survival. A brief chronological overview of studies on the Holocaust survivors is presented. Moreover, a number of psychological problems most often experienced by the survivors are identified, i...

The SPARQL Query Language presents a standardized interface to accessing RDF graphs. Its use allows templated queries to retrieve information from remote sources about known entities. However, such templated queries present a key problem: Queries cannot be made directly about nodes whose identity depends on reasoning. We present an efficient approach to solving this problem using a SPARQL exten...

Plasmids 1.6, 2.8, or greater than 40 megadaltons in size were found in one urethral and nine throat strains of meningococci. Throat meningococci are known to be heterogeneous in their aminopeptidase profiles. Their unexpected content of plasmids is further evidence of their difference from classic systemic strains. Although the 2.8 megadalton plasmid has some resemblance to the well known 2.6 ...