This paper illustrates the malleable boundaries that define nature. Personal construct theory is employed to examine the apparent contradiction of the human/nature binary posed by landscapes generated by domesticated agriculture and physical and biological processes. Specifically, the paper reports on how tourists to the Kimberley region of Australia discriminate between their perception of hum...

This paper examines Jia Zhangke's aesthetics of time and space based on Deleuze's cinema philosophy as a theoretical foundation. The paper's central thesis is that Zhangke creates an aesthetic in film through the presentation temporal images. Through analysis Good Man Three Gorges, World, Xiao Wu, it argued not only provides practical example philosophical theory but also portrays complex reali...

In this paper we present an approach for global combinatorial optimization applied to the TSP which combines local search heuristics with a population-based strategy. Due to its intrinsic parallelism and the inherent asynchronicity of the method it is specially appealing for MIMD message-passing parallel computers, such as those constructed from transputers. The approach is similar to that used...

Rhodnius prolixus periodically gorges on a blood meal that could compromise salt and water balance. This, however, is prevented by rapid production of urine within minutes of feeding. The Malpighian tubules increase their rate of secretion 1,000 fold leading to the production of a hypo-osmotic urine that is high in NaCl content. Feeding and post-prandial diuresis in R. prolixus are tightly coor...