Our topic is the principles for prediction of macroscopic phenomena in general, and the relation to microphenomena. Although physicists believe that we have understood the laws of microphysics quite well for fty years, macrophenomena are observed to have a rich variety that is very hard to understand. We see not only lifeless thermal equilibrium and irreversible approaches to it, but lively beh...

John Locke was born in 1632 and died in 1704, and devoted his working life to a remarkably wide range of interests, quite apart from the philosophical studies for which he is generally remembered. They included such topics as education, the national coinage, colonial administration and, not least, the life-long study of medicine. Indeed, Locke's interest in medicine was so strong that it was no...

One of the most beautiful theories of condensed matter is certainly the theory of conventional superconductivity. Called the BCS theory after the names of the creators (Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer), it explains the zero resistance appearing in particular materials when their temperature approaches absolute zero. In the BCS theory, electrons are bound together by an attractive interaction and...

The Cellular Automata method has been used to simulate the pattern formation of the Schlögl model as a bistable Reaction-Diffusion System. Both microscopic and macroscopic Cellular Automata approaches have been considered and two different methods for obtaining the probabilities in the microscopic approach have been mentioned. The results show the tendency of the system towards the more sta...

background: sarcocystis infection is one of the most common zoonotic protozoon diseases caused by different sarcocystis spp. objectives: due to the importance of this infection in public health, the infection rate of macroscopic and microscopic cysts in sheep and cattle of abattoir of shahriar, was investigated. methods: 138 slaughtered sheep and cattle were selected randomly and their esophagu...

The purpose of the study was to investigate left-right asymmetries and other anatomical variants of temporomandibular articular surfaces. Digital photography and macroscopic observation were used to gather information about the shape, size, orientation and degeneration of temporomandibular articular surfaces of 100 skull bases and 100 mandibles. Left-right asymmetries in shape, size, orientatio...

Using exploratory data analysis, probability plots, scatterplots, and computer animations to rotate and visualize the data, we fit a trivariate Normal distribution to data for the height, the natural logarithm of body weight, and the body fat for 646 men between the ages of 50 and 80 years as reported by the medical staff of the U.S. Veterans Administration's "Normative Aging Study" in Boston, ...