This paper attempts to explain several empirical findings regarding religion. The main one is between religion and the fear of death. Some empirical evidence indicates moderately religious individuals fear death more than either atheists or extremely religious individuals. The model also explains the positive relationship often found between religious activity (e.g. church attendance) and age. ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a surprising abundance of bright galaxy candidates in the very early Universe ($< 500$ Myrs after Big Bang), calling into question current formation models. Spectroscopy is needed to confirm primeval nature these candidates, as well understand how first galaxies form stars and grow. Here we present deep spectroscopic continuum ALMA observatio...

Olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) response was measured to assess why some males ("rare males") of the Asian corn borer (ACB), Ostrinia furnacalis, have a broad behavioral response to fly upwind to both the ACB and the European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis, pheromone blends. We performed single-sensillum electrophysiological recordings on ACB males that had been behaviorally assessed for ...

We discussed the role of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8 and IFN-γ in the pathogenesis of central nervous system neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematous (CNS-NPSLE). Serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples were collected from CNS-NPSLE patients, non-CNS SLE patients, patients with intracranial infection and normal subjects. Levels of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8 and IFN-γ in serum and cerebrospinal fluid were detect...

We study D = 4, N = 1, type IIA orientifold with orbifold group ZN and ZN × ZM . We calculate one-loop vacuum amplitudes for Klein bottle, cylinder and Möbius strip and extract the tadpole divergences. We find that the tadpole cancellation conditions thus obtained are satisfied by the Z4, Z8, Z ′ 8, Z ′ 12 orientifolds while there is no solution for Z3, Z7, Z6, Z ′ 6, Z12. The Z4 × Z4 type IIA ...

Using the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices, Rowley and Smith (2009) found that countries with Muslim majorities enjoy less freedom and are less democratic than countries in which Muslims are a minority. Because the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices have been criticized on several grounds, I reinvestigate Rowley and Smith ́s finding using the new Democracy-Dictatorship data from Cheibub et a...

This paper attempts to examine the securitization, negotiability and profitability aspects of three types of muèŒrabah instruments; namely, asset-enfaced muèŒrabah instruments, currency-enfaced muèŒrabah instruments representing monetary contributions and currency-enfaced muèŒrabah instruments representing real assets. This paper begins with a distinction between ribŒ (usury) and profit and con...

We construct a database linking European royal kinship networks, monarchies, and wars to study the effect of family ties on conflict. To establish causality, we exploit decreases in connection caused by apolitical deaths rulers’ mutual relatives. These are associated with substantial increases frequency duration war. provide evidence that these affect conflict only through changing network. Ove...

The number of Islamic financial technology (fintech) study growsalong with technological advancement and fintech itself. Thisstudy aims to review the studies on publishedin journals indexed by Scopus Web Science using asystematic literature approach. As shown in frameworkproposed this study, we found five elements entireobserved papers. customer has been most discussedelement among researchers ...