Ever since the dawn of human life on this planet, Man has always tried to understand Nature, his own place in the scheme of Creation and the purpose of Life itself. In this quest for Truth, spanning many centuries and diverse civilizations, organized religion has shaped human life and, to a large extent, has determined the course of history. While some religions have been based on written text,...

Purpose: Smartphones and the other internet supported gadgets have brought us very close to glamour industry. The intentional representation entertainment industry does of only 'beautiful, most attractive perfect faces bodies' hides enormous sum money that is invested into this depiction. What hidden from an army professionals help them look way they look. There are people design clothes suitin...

“The urban population in the Asian and Pacific region between 1991 and 2020 is expected to rise from 991 million to 2.44 billion. This means an additional 1.4 billion people will be living in the urban centers of Asia. Cities already feel this increase tangibly, as they strain to properly service the physical and social needs of their populations. The urban poor feel the pinch as they struggle ...

The article examines the motivational aspect of high school students’ mastery German language, namely such a type internal motivation as communicative motivation. reform education system determined choice communicatively oriented learning dominant form education, since interest in foreign language is constantly growing. Attention focused on fact that can be used not only for communication and r...

O nce again this year, along with ≥300 outcomes and health services researchers, I attended the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research conference during the first week of June in Baltimore. I started coming to this unique conference nearly a decade ago. With some of the world's leading authorities on quality and appropriate-ness of care, healthcare disparities, and r...

I would like to address my attention to the Cancer Program as seen by the basic science community, not so much in terms of dollars and cents but of the objectives; i.e., where and how the basic sciences should fit and what role they have been asked to play in the Program. I am not going to deal with specifics of appropriation from the NCI budget, nor with the scientific basis of cancer control....

ECOSYSTEMS escalate daily with each tree felled, road built deeper into the forest, and additional human to feed, shelter and clothe, with ever dwindling natural resources. Biologists working in the field of tropical conservation are familiar with the increasingly complex and pervasive anthropogenic changes, negatively impacting the world, and challenging conservation efforts. These human-induc...

In this paper, we propose a method of statistically analyzing overall shape of the trunk and classifying those of Japanese women into smaller number of classes. The main problem in this research is that the number of the coordinates of the control points in the shape data is more than 1,000 so that the principal component analysis or other many statistically analyzing methods are inapplicable t...

We’re bossy and boring. Do more exercise! Take the stairs! Have you done your 30 minutes today? Exercise is promoted as a moral good, something to which responsible citizens should be enslaved, or at least devoted. We are all urged to exercise regularly to save the NHS money in the long term, to stop us getting fat, getting diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, depression—and from infarcting our myoca...

Without animals this planet would be a very different place, indeed many of the remaining life forms could not exist. As animals ourselves we are linked to a vast network of moving, living, reproducing organisms that form an essential part of the various ecosystems that are themselves competing for survival. By virtue of our large cognitive capacity and complex societal living structures, we ma...