When European missionaries first entered Asia and the New World, they largely transposed to their new contexts catechisms that assumed intellectual passivity of catechumen. The Jesuits, however, soon realized such textual models would not be appropriate in East which boasted its own sophisticated philosophical traditions. This article explores how Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) deploys adapts his...

Gametic disequilibria between allozyme loci were related to spatial variation of the environment in caged populations of Drosophila melanogaster . Two experiments, one with flies collected at "Chateau Tahbilk," South Australia, and the other with flies from "Groningen," The Netherlands, were sampled at generations 16 and 32. Spatial variation of the environment was stimulated using three food m...

Spirometric data from 1586 healthy children, who did not smoke, were analysed to examine the effects of overweight as measured by the body mass index (weight/height2) on lung function. Overweight (72 boys, 88 girls) was defined as on or above the 90th percentile weight for height. After having controlled for the confounding variables of height and age, there were positive partial correlations b...