In humans, referential gestures intentionally draw the attention of a partner to an object of mutual interest, and are considered a key element in language development. Outside humans, referential gestures have only been attributed to great apes and, most recently, ravens. This was interpreted as further evidence for the comparable cognitive abilities of primates and corvids. Here we describe a...

WHAT A TEAM! Napoleon preferred lucky generals, and Thorax has lucky Editors in Chief because we have a great team of deputy editors, associate editors, production staff and editorial board. A former Editor in Chief (it is said!) used to write to authors to say either “I am sorry, but the Associate Editor has recommended rejection of your manuscript” or “I am pleased to tell you I that have acc...

In September 2000, the self-styled “anthropological journalist” Patrick Tierney began to make public his work claiming that the Yanomamö people of South America had been actively—indeed brutally—harmed by the sociobiological anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon and the geneticist-physician James Neel. Following a florid summary of Tierney’s claims by the anthropologists Terence Turner and Leslie Spo...

A business’s success depends on its ability to protect valuable business assets in an increasingly hostile environment. Protecting information requires a cost, not only in purchasing security components, but also in ensuring that those security components are properly managed. Role Based Access Control (RBAC) shows promise for making security administration easier, thus reducing the cost of man...

Franciszek Ksawery Bohusz (1746–1820) was a philosopher, theologist, Jesuit, political activist, participant of the Kościuszko Uprising, member Warsaw Society Friends Science, honorary Vilnius University, translator and publisher Napoleon Code, who also author thesis On Origins Lithuanian Nation Language (1808). The written in an effort to save from forgetting traditions people whose language, ...

The beginning of Military Geology dates back, according to historians this science, when Napoleon recruited four geologists for his campaign from Egypt at the end 18th century. However, first writings on subject will not appear until next Despite fact that in Spain science has never developed, it was Spanish military man and enlightened Juan Sánchez Cisneros, author 1819 work deals with matter ...