The last two centuries have produced, transformed and destroyed a myriad of political symbols of a linguistic, visual and ritual form. Between, say 1790 and 1990 the political sphere witnessed both an explosion in the generation of symbols and a radical decline of symbols. This calls for explanations. Mary Douglas and Serge Moscovici have provided insightful reflections on the theory and histor...

Coalitions between animals are found in a variety of taxa, but are most common among primates. Here, we present data on the relative abundance of male–male coalitions within a group of free-ranging rhesus macaques, a species in which male coalitions are reportedly rare or absent. We then report a series of revolutionary coalitions among subordinates against higher ranked individuals that transf...

Preliminary data were presented in a poster at the 14th annual Cochrane Colloquium in Dublin, Ireland, 23–26 October 2006. Final results were presented orally at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology in Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A., 9–12 May 2007. This study was funded in part by National Cancer Institute grant K-07CA92550 (R.P.D.), National Institute of Health grant T...

Evolutionary computation is a useful technique for learning behaviors in multiagent systems. Among the several types of evolutionary computation, one natural and popular method is to coevolve multiagent behaviors in multiple, cooperating populations. Recenl research has suggested that r e v o lutionary systems may favor stability rather than performance in some domains. In order to improve upon...

In this project, we have chosen five important sub-projectsturbulence simulation, aeroacoustics noise simulation, structure analysis, protein simulation and nano-scale simulationsas representative topics from the fields of engineering, life science, and nanotechnology and achieved the following results. In the turbulence simulation, we conducted the world's largest engineering large eddy simula...

With more and more Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) being identified throughout the genome, some of those SNPs will be found to be located within candidate genes, allowing the researchers to use the candidate gene approach on a genomewide scale. SNPs have some drawbacks but when compared to other markers they are more efficient and SNP consortium is growing to meet the requirements of gen...

Citation: Ciatti SA (2015) Compression ignition engines – revolutionary technology that has civilized frontiers all over the globe from the industrial revolution into the twenty-first century. Front. Mech. Eng. 1:5. doi: 10.3389/fmech.2015.00005 Compression ignition engines – revolutionary technology that has civilized frontiers all over the globe from the industrial revolution into the twenty-...

QUESTION why are so many leading modern scientists so dull and lacking in scientific ambition? ANSWER because the science selection process ruthlessly weeds-out interesting and imaginative people. At each level in education, training and career progression there is a tendency to exclude smart and creative people by preferring Conscientious and Agreeable people. The progressive lengthening of ...