The fate of Cassiodorus’ Variae during the Early Middle Ages is largely unknown, since manuscript tradition begins with eleventh century, and long quotations taken from them are attested only that period. However, words or expressions reminiscent occur more than once in Charlemagne’s letters to Byzantium, works Paschasius, Donation Constantine. author epistles sent by East Roman emperor was awa...

Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being that are of importance to economics. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a “baseline” level of happiness that shows persistent strength over time. Here we explore the extent to which baseline happiness is influenced by genetic variation. Using data from Add Health, we employ a ...

Stevioside is a natural sweetener extracted from leaves of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni. The literature about Stevia, the occurrence of its sweeteners, their biosynthetic pathway and toxicological aspects are discussed. Injection experiments or perfusion experiments of organs are considered as not relevant for the use of Stevia or stevioside as food, and therefore these studies are not i...

pends on the input x, usually in some random way. The first difficulty we have is that the message, call it U , is usually not the same type of object as the acceptable inputs to the channel. For example, the message may be a baseband voice waveform, but the channel may accept only waveforms in a certain passband. Or the channel may be a fiber-optic cable that accepts only pulses of light. So w...