Despite its widespread usage, the meaning of the term ‘development’ remains vague, tending to refer to a set of beliefs and assumptions about the nature of social progress rather than to anything more precise. After presenting a brief history of the term, the author argues that not only will development fail to address poverty or to narrow the gap between rich and poor, but in fact it both wide...

In the last years, distributed coordinator-free systems, e.g., peerto-peer systems (P2P systems), have attracted much interest among researchers and practitioners. In these systems it is difficult to motivate participants to cooperate. To this end, researchers have proposed various incentive mechanisms. In this paper we are interested in the following question: Do human beings indeed use the st...

Human monocytic ehrlichiosis is a tick-borne infectious disease transmitted by several tick species, especially Amblyomma spp caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis. E. chaffeensis is an obligatory intracellular, tick-transmitted bacterium that is maintained in nature in a cycle involving at least one and perhaps several vertebrate reservoir hosts. Two additional Ehrlichia spp, Anaplasma (formerly Ehr...

The properties of human nature that make talk possible have fascinated philosophers since the Enlightenment. For Descartes, animals and machines "could never use speech or other signs as we do when placing our thought on record for others" (1637, p. 116). "Magpies and parrots are able to utter words just like ourselves, and yet they cannot speak as we do, that is, so as to give evidence that th...

This work focused on the war nerves between United State of America and Soviet Union relations endeavour to find out, how ideological States Union, affected international peace. is as a result significance era in contemporary trends human civilization. heralded advent most destructive instruments annals humans’ development – Atomic Bomb Ballistic Missiles. The presence these midst humanity, gav...