it is now generally accepted that the rise of the genre of novel required a kind of worldview as well as a philosophical theory of man which had not been in existence until recent centuries, after severe changes which resulted into modern civilization. novel and realistic novel in particular, is a genre dealing with individual man and his possibilities in facing with problems and issues of the ...

This year’s MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation BioMAN Summit will focus on Real Time Release, and posters on topics related to the general theme are welcome for consideration. Read full details, including information regarding student poster prizes, here. While this call for posters focuses on the applications of Real Time Release (RTR) to biopharmaceutical manufacturing, it will consider res...

The recent loophole-free experiments have confirmed the violation of Bell’s inequalities in nature. Yet, in order to insert measured values in Bell’s inequalities, it is unavoidable to make a hypothesis similar to “ergodicity at the hidden variables level”. This possibility opens a promising way out from the old controversy between quantum mechanics and local realism. Here, I review the reason ...

In his essay, the author refers to Jan Tinbergen and distinguishes positive from negative globalisation. Negative globalisation has been happening for the last two decades and is characterized by elimination of borders and bypassing the established regulation. This process hasn't been accompanied by new regulation on a global level. In this way, democratic theory had to face the challenge of po...