Responses to violence in some lament Psalms of the individual Lament psalms of the individual that reflect a motif of violence are here examined so as to determine whether or not the editors of the Psalter had a pattern of instruction that they wished to inculcate with respect to the experience of violence. An examination of prayers of the accused and prayers of sickness as sub-groups within th...

The reported signal at the LSND experiment, when interpreted as neutrino mixing with δm = 6 eV, provides evidence for neutrinos with a cosmologically significant mass. However, attempts to reconcile this interpretation of the experiment with other hints about neutrino properties require a (sterile) fourth neutrino and/or an “inverted” neutrino mass hierarchy. An interpretation of the LSND exper...

On the occasion of the twentieth-anniversary issue of the Public Opinion Quarterly in 1957, an issue devoted to twenty years of public opinion research, Herbert Hyman reflected on the existing state of theory about public opinion (Hyman, 1957; pp. 54-60). The state of theory was bleak, he commented, if one looked for a grand theory that integrated the vast empirical findings of past and contemp...

Three studies examined the motives underlying people’s desire to punish. In previous research, participants have read hypothetical criminal scenarios and assigned “fair” sentences to the perpetrators. Systematic manipulations within these scenarios revealed high sensitivity to factors associated with motives of retribution, but low sensitivity to utilitarian motives. This research identiWes the...

Interactions of heavy Majorana neutrinos in the thermal phase of the early universe may be the origin of the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry. This mechanism of baryogenesis implies stringent constraints on light and heavy Majorana neutrino masses. We derive an improved upper bound on the CP asymmetry in heavy neutrino decays which, together with the kinetic equations, yields an upper b...

General criteria to check the positivity of the distribution function (phase–space consistency) of stellar systems of assigned density and anisotropy profile are useful starting points in Jeans– based modeling. Here we substantially extend previous results, and we present the inversion formula and the analytical necessary and sufficient conditions for phase–space consistency of the family of mu...

We describe a real-time 3D face detector based on boosted cascade classifiers that uses a scale-invariant image representation to improve both efficiency and efficacy of the detection process, named orthogonal projection images. In this representation, images are no longer scanned at multiple scales in order to detect faces with different distances in relation to the camera. The proposed detect...

In his landmark trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, sociologist Manuel Castells argued that networks, information technology, global economic flows were altering the nature of politics, power, states. This article examines network dynamics wrote about in relation to transnational crime illicit markets. further explores Castells’s influence on study organized crime, econo...

We discuss the effect of the supersymmetry breaking on the Mass Varying Neutrinos(MaVaNs) scenario. Especially, the effect mediated by the gravitational interaction between the hidden sector and the dark energy sector is studied. A model including a chiral superfield in the dark sector and the right handed neutrino superfield is proposed. Evolutions of the neutrino mass and the equation of stat...

In the paper Randomizations of Scattered Sentences, Keisler showed that if Martin’s axiom for aleph one holds, then every scattered sentence has few separable randomizations, and asked whether the conclusion could be proved in ZFC alone. We show here that the answer is “yes”. It follows that the absolute Vaught conjecture holds if and only if every Lω1ω-sentence with few separable randomization...