"The idea of this interim commission was to carry over the spirit and deliberations of this meeting into the next stage so that what we talked about wasn't lost in transition," Malloy said. Of the 15 members of the commission, three are from North America. Joining Malloy are Father Joseph O'Hare, president of Fordham University and Sister Sally Furay, vice-president and provost of the Universit...

AlaSTRACT.--Sexual wing dimorphism in relation to tail ornaments and body size was studied in the strikingly sexually dimorphic widowbirds and bishops (Euplectes) of the African tropics. Seven widowbirds grow long tails, varying from 7 cm in Fan-tailed Widowbird (E. axillaris) to 0.5 m in the Long-tailed Widowbird (E. progne). Aerodynamic drag increases with tail length, and adaptations to comp...

Introduction: Induction of labour is a common obstetric intervention, occurring in approximately 25% term pregnancies developing countries. Pharmacological and mechanical methods commonly used are prostaglandin preparations (PGE1 PGE2) various intracervical catheters (single or double balloon), respectively. Material Methods: Study was conducted Siliguri District Hospital, Siliguri, Darjeeling,...

Abstract Three key characteristics of effective electoral mobilizers have been identified in the literature: reputation, embeddedness local community, and ability to reward sanction voters. Religious leaders may possess all these characteristics. Can they favor their preferred candidates? Using a novel data set connections between politicians Italian Catholic bishops throughout twentieth centur...

IT is known that the game of chess originated in India. It was passed on to the medieval West through the intermediary of the Persians and the Arabs, a fact to which we owe, for example, the expression "check-mate", (German: Schachmatt) which is derived from the Persian shah: "king" and the Arabic mat: "he is dead". At the time of the Renaissance some of the rules of the game were changed: the ...