Among homeopaths the common idea about a working hypothesis for homeopathic effects seems to be that, during the potentization process, 'information' or 'energy' is being preserved or even enhanced in homeopathic remedies. The organism is said to be able to pick up this information, which in turn will stimulate the organism into a self-healing response. According to this view the decisive eleme...

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Astragalus L. is one of the largest angiosperm complex genera that belongs to family Fabaceae, subfamily Papilionoideae or Faboideae under subtribe Astragalinae tribe Galegeae. The current study includes whole plant morphology, DNA barcode (ITS2), and molecular marker (SCoT). Ten taxa representing four species were collected from different localities in Egypt during period February 2018 May 201...

Welcome to the special issue of Empirical Software Engineering on repeatable experiments in software engineering. Earlier and shorter versions of the papers presented here first appeared at the PROMISE 2007 workshop in Minneapolis. The PROMISE project has been running for 4 years now and aims to create large libraries of repeatable experiments in software engineering. PROMISE is somewhat differ...

Understanding how reproductive barriers evolve during speciation remains an important question in evolution. Divergence in mating preferences may be a common first step in this process. The striking colour pattern diversity of strawberry dart frog (Dendrobates pumilio) populations has likely been shaped by sexual selection. Previous laboratory studies have shown that females attend to male colo...

This paper presents a Horn clanse logic where functions and predicates are declared with polymorphic types. Types are parameterized with type variables. This leads to an ML-like polymorphic type system. A type declaration of a function or predicate restricts the possible use of this function or predicate so that only certain terms are allowed to be arguments for this function or predicate. The ...

Kumar A, Verma N. 2012. A comparative phylogenetic analysis of medicinal plant Tribulus terrestris in Northwest India revealed by RAPD and ISSR markers. Biodiversitas 13: 107-113. Several DNA marker systems and associated techniques are available today for fingerprinting of plant varieties. A total of 5 RAPD and 8 ISSR primers were used. Amplification of genomic DNA of the 6 genotypes, using RA...

The determination of a unicellular or a multicellular origin of a tumor is an important due for understanding its etiology. To investigate this issue, we performed clonality assay of cervix cancer using polymerase chain reaction based on highly polymorphic locus of the androgen receptor gene, in which methylation of DNA correlates with inactivation of X chromosome. DNA samples were obtained fro...

Temporal media is information that is directly consumed by a user, and that varies with time. Examples include music, digital sound files, computer animations, and video clips. In this paper we present a polymorphic data type that captures a broad range of temporal media. We study its syntactic, temporal, and semantic properties, leading to an algebraic theory of polymorphic temporal media that...