The evolution of handedness in human populations has intrigued scientists for decades. However, whether handedness really affects Darwinian fitness is unclear and not yet studied in a non-industrial society where selection pressures on health and handedness are likely to be similar to the situation in which handedness has evolved. We measured both hand preference and asymmetry of hand skill (sp...

Technological devices are playing such a significant role in our lives that educators are incorporating Ipads, smartphones, and even Skyping via these devices to educate our future generations. Managing the utilization of this technology has become an important issue for businesses and proposes the question: how is it possible to maintain good human relations with customers, clients and other b...

Mortality data (183,064 deaths in a 30-year period, 1940-1969) by sex and three ethnic groups (white excluding Spanish-surnamed, nonwhite, and Spanish-surnamed) in 15 regions within the city (Houston), grouped around the air pollution sample collection stations have been analyzed. Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for...

In this article, the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth is examined from the viewpoint of China’s industrial sectors. Panel data from 37 industrial sectors in China covering the period from 1998 to 2010 was used in this study. Not only first generation panel unit root tests and panel cointegration tests, but also second generation tests that account for dependence betwe...

Background Proteases are enzymes used in diversified process and industrial products, where the most important is the food sector and the detergent fabrication. The microbial obtention way is the most relevant, and the filamentous fungi are the main synthesis agents in industrial scale. [1]. The genres Conidiobolus, Verticillium, Penicillium e Aspergillus are reported as proteases producers. Th...

The advances in air quality modelling have been substantial in the last decade. Nowadays, air quality modelling systems are capable to provide accurate information on the impact of different sources in relation to the total air pollution concentrations in real-time and in forecasting modes. In this contribution we show the results of the impact of five different industrial plants on a mesoscale...

The effect of exposure to industrial metals on sensory perception of workers has received only modest interest from the medical community to date. Nevertheless, some experimental and epidemiological data exist showing that industrial metals can affect vision, hearing and olfactory function, and a similar effect is also suggested for touch and taste. In this review the main industrial metals inv...

We present four classes of nonlinear systems which may be considered discrete analogues of the Garnier system. These systems arise as discrete isomonodromic deformations of systems of linear difference equations in which the associated Lax matrices are presented in a factored form. A system of discrete isomonodromic deformations is completely determined by commutation relations between the fact...