what happened in recent decades in collapse of several states and birth of new ones, raised serious questions about the legal aspects of the problem. does international community actually endorse the unilateral secession to create new states? what could be the real impacts of recent cases like kosovo and ossetia on the future of international legal order? the present article tries to find these...

Imipenem, the first carbapenem discovered, was developed more than two decades ago in response to an unmet need for a highly potent, broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent with a strong safety profile. It has since been used to treat more than 26 million patients. In an era where antibiotic use has driven antibiotic resistance, choosing appropriate initial therapy for serious infection is critical....

Western anthropology, based on the belief of dualism of body and mind, has unconsciously but profoundly influenced the basic approach to medicine for centuries. This separation of body and mind has become greater since the day of Decartes. Medical care has thus focused more on disease than illness, pain rather than suffering. New medical technologies bring new hopes of cure, but fail to allevia...

In 1984, Goldreich, Goldwasser and Micali formalized the concept of pseudorandom functions and proposed a construction based on any length-doubling pseudorandom generator. Since then, pseudorandom functions have turned out to be an extremely influential abstraction, with applications ranging from message authentication to barriers in proving computational complexity lower bounds. In this tutori...

Victor Papilian was born an artist, during high school he studied music in order to become a violinist in two professional orchestras in Bucharest. Later on he enrolled in the school of medicine, being immediately attracted by anatomy. After graduating, with a briliant dissertation, he became a member of the faculty and continued to teach in his preferred field. His masters, Gh. Marinescu and V...

The 21st century has witnessed vast amounts of research into blended learning since the conception of online learning formed the possibility of blended learning in the early 1990s. The theme of this paper is blended learning in mainstream disciplinary communities. In particular, the paper reports on findings from the last two decades which looked at origination, development and future of blende...

institution to a system of institutions, i.e. a diagram of institutions, more precisely. However the thinking along these lines has led to a rather different and much more efficient solution, namely that of the ‘flattening’ of the respective diagram of institutions to a single institution by extending a corresponding construction from category theory [49] to institutions. The resulting concept ...

Circadian rhythms coordinate our physiology at a fundamental level. Over the last 20 years, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in our perception of what the clocks driving such rhythms actually are, moving from 'black boxes' to talking about autoregulatory transcriptional/post-translational feedback loops with identified molecular components. We also now know that the pacemaker of the suprachia...

Two decades of OH variability as inferred by an inversion of atmospheric transport and chemistry of methyl chloroform P. Bousquet, D. A. Hauglustaine, P. Peylin, C. Carouge, and P. Ciais Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Gif sur Yvette, France Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines (UVSQ), Versailles, France Laboratoire de Biogéochimie des milieux cont...