the question has always been raised throughout history whether human beings need to follow the prophets or divine revelation to achieve salvation. there will be no need, as some believe, to follow divine teachings once human beings reach intellectual maturity; however, others insist on the permanent need for guidance from god due to inadequacy of human reason. in the third or fourth century ah,...

The work in this thesis concerns the split of Einstein field equations (EFE’s) with respect to nowhere-null hypersurfaces, the GR Cauchy and Initial Value problems (CP and IVP), the Canonical formulation of GR and its interpretation, and the Foundations of Relativity. I address Wheeler’s question about the why of the form of the GR Hamiltonian constraint “from plausible first principles”. I con...

The 50th anniversary of the publication of the proposed double-helix structure for DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick last year was widely celebrated. But historically, we are still perhaps too close to the event to realise its ultimate significance. Therefore, the more people who were involved or who subsequently worked with the molecule write and tell of their experiences, the richer histo...

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So, what is going on? What is the level of involvement of the lymphatic system, is there some relationship between a ‘normally functioning’ and structurally sound lymphatic system and control of adipose tissue, and a poorly functioning and structurally weak lymphatic system and excess adiposity? Does fast lymph flow make you skinny, and can slow or poor lymph flow make you fat? NP Lymphatic sys...

This paper describes PARMENIDES, a system which facilitates structured debate about government policy. 1 The PARMENIDES System The last two decades have seen a deliberative turn in the study of democracy in political philosophy [1]. Prior theories of democracy viewed ordinary citizens as no more than passive consumers of political information and argument, acting only when called upon to vote. ...

The biofuels debate in the European Union has long been seen as a battle between politicians intent on finding a viable alternative to fossil fuels and campaign groups that claim the creation of biofuels creates potential environment damage, cuts into food production, and may be of limited effect in tackling climate change. But in a move to acknowledge concerns about the increasing complexity s...

Introduction Understanding memory, the search for the engram, is the holy grail of psychology and neuroscience. Researchers are continually searching for answers to different aspects of how memory works. Yet, in 1997 when someone mentions the ‘memory debate‘ it is generally understood that this refers to the controversy involving the recovery of repressed memories of childhood abuse, and the po...