Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history. His mother, Rebecca Jackson, was intelligent and energetic, but Jean found her a bit neurotic -an impression that he said led to his interest in psychology, but away from pathology! The oldest child, he was quite independent and ...

James Tanner spent much of his childhood abroad, in the baggage train of the British Army; when he was 9 years old the family returned to their home in east Devon and he began his schooling. He attended Marlborough College from 1934 to 1938 on a scholarship reserved for the sons of Army officers. Having specialised first in modern languages and then in mathematics and engineering, he found hims...

Volcano Young Sheveluch is one of the most active volcanoes in Kamchatka. Since August 1980 to present time, an extrusive dome has been growing crater volcano. Plastic lavas form large ribbons were noted on already 1980–1981, first lava flow was observed after a paroxysmal eruption May 9, 2004. The next block started extrude end April – beginning 2020. By June, 11th, it rose above 50–80 m, and ...

THE CELL MEMBRANE is a recognized site for radiation injury (Myers, 1970; Alper, 1971). Chemical agents known to interact with membrane components may therefore amplify cell killing when present during irradiation. Indeed membrane-active agents such as local anaesthetics, analgesics and tranquillizers have been shown to enhance radiation effects on cells (George et al., 1975; Shenoy et al., 197...

After more than forty years since the 1980 Irpinia-Lucania earthquake, with this Special Issue “The 23 November Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy Earthquake: Insights and Reviews 40 Years Later” we revisit milestone geological seismological event, bringing together latest views news on aim of improving dissemination wide-ranging information remarkable case history [...]

Those persons employed in this nation's agribusiness industry can ill afford to ignore the balance sheet for U.S. agriculture. Preliminary estimates for 1983 suggest that production agriculture currently functions on a base of debt capital totaling $215 billion. While total assets employed have, since 1980, remained almost constant at about $1,000 billion, our farmers' equity position has actua...

Sequential extraction integrated with isotope analysis was carried out on a sediment core from Liaodong Bay, northeast China, for characterizing Pb in various extraction phases and its possible sources. Results show that in all extracted fractions Pb concentrations increased abruptly in the top part of the sediments that deposited after 1980, but remained lower and rather constant before 1980. ...