The isolation and purification of enzymes from bacteria that polymerize ribonucleoside diphosphates (l-3) have intensified the search for enzymes in animals that will synthesize RNA.l A number of reports (4-11) have established that radioactive compounds can be incorporated into RNA in cell-free systems from animals, but the pathway of incorporation and the identity of the immediate precursor o...

From an evolutionary point of view, female sexual desire contributes greatly to the success of reproduction by coordinating sexual behavior. It is known that female sexual desire fluctuates with the menstrual cycle. However, little is known about the role of basic emotions during menstrual cycle. We designed a facial EMG study to investigate facial expressions of joy during the menstrual cycle....

Beauty has been an intriguing issue since the evolving of a culture in mankind. Even the Neanderthals are believed to have applied makeover to enhance facial structures and thus underline beauty. The determinants of beauty and aesthetics have been defined by artists and scientists alike. This article will give an overview of the evolvement of a beauty concept and the significance of the facial ...

In Bradley ([2011b]), I offered an analysis of Sleeping Beauty and the Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics (EQM). I argued that one can avoid a kind of easy confirmation of EQM by paying attention to observation selection effects, that halfers are right about Sleeping Beauty, and that thirders cannot avoid easy confirmation for the truth of EQM. Wilson ([forthcoming]) agrees with my ...

Sexuality and eroticism are present in all of opera’s interwoven ‘layers’, broadly: drama, music and singing. Interaction with the resulting whole evokes an emotional response in the listener/audience that is erotic in nature. Lacanian psychoanalytic theory pertaining to the gaze and, in particular, the voice provides a useful framework to explore the sexuality and eroticism within and beyond o...

The paper discusses erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage in the opening of Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and in William Shakespeare’s sonnets. What connects most of the texts chosen for consideration in the paper is their diptych-like composition, corresponding to the dual theme of eros and pilgrimage. At the outset, I read the first eighteen lines of...

This paper proposes a method for helping to identify adult web sites by using the imagecontent as means of detecting erotic material. The image content is classified by investigating probable skin-regions, and extracting their feature vectors. These feature vectors are based on color-, texture-, contour-, placement-, and relative size-information for a given region. The importance of the differ...

Ammonia fixation has been shown to proceed through at least three major pathways in ureotelic animals (1, 2). These are carbamyl phosphate synthetase, glutamic dehydrogenase, and glutamine synthetase. Perhaps the most significant means for removal of exogenous ammonia is by its conversion to urea (3). The initial step in this conversion is the production of carbamyl phosphate in the liver. Carb...

Beauty and cuteness are considered to represent different aspects of attractiveness and to be distinguishable from each other by their respective reliance on neonate and sexually mature features found in attractive faces. In this study, we investigated whether baby schema features in adult faces affect not only cuteness, but also beauty and attractiveness. We also investigated possible differen...

The search for beauty and its value has been a discussion topic since the ancient Greeks composed their myths. The advent of safer and more advanced modern plastic surgery techniques and the spread of aesthetic medicine have renewed the search for beauty. Today, beauty seems possible, accessible, and more demo­ cratic than ever before [1]. To be beautiful is going to become an imperative, and f...