Using data collected in the Tyva Republic, the present work sheds light on the dynamic nature of religious cognition. In doing so, it reveals important patterns in the representation and distribution of religious concepts in this remote corner of the globe. This paper first introduces a cognitive ecological account of religion by examining human representational structures and how they interact...

Many turtle species are endangered through a variety of human activities, from beach development, boating and shipping, and fishing. Awareness of the problems has mostly focused on protection of beaches used for breeding as individuals return to highly specific sites where they are particularly vulnerable. Apart from their breeding sites, much less is known about their long and complex movement...

A solid-object printer was used to produce masters for the fabrication of microfluidic devices in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS). The printer provides an alternative to photolithography for applications where features of > 250 microm are needed. Solid-object printing is capable of delivering objects that have dimensions as large as 250 x 190 x 200 mm (x, y, z) with feature sizes that can range f...

We describe protocols for the fabrication of microfluidic devices in plastics using a number of different embossing masters. Masters were fabricated by deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) of silicon (100), wet etching of silicon (100) and (110), and SU-8 processing. Structures embossed into a cyclo-olefin polymer were characterized in terms of the quality of pattern transfer as well as of the surf...

Does R&D have an impact on the economic performance of an enterprise? To most economic observers, the obvious answer is yes. However, recent reports by Booz-Allen-Hamilton (BAH 2006, 2007) conclude that the share of spending devoted to research has no relationship to firm growth, profits, and value, and offers support to the view that it is possible to compete successfully in the modern economy...

We consider the Allen-Cahn equation ε∆u + u− u = 0 in Ω, ∂u ∂ν = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a smooth and bounded domain in R such that the mean curvature is positive at each boundary point. We show that there exists a sequence εj → 0 such that the Allen-Cahn equation has a solution uεj with an interface which approaches the boundary as j → +∞.