We suggest that the conventional need for overwhelming amounts of astrophysical dark matter should be regarded as a warning to standard gravity rather than as merely a challenge to it, and show that the systematics of galactic rotation curve data can just as readily point in the direction of the equally covariant conformal gravity alternative. In particular we identify an apparent imprint of th...

K9 crisis comfort dogs Beau (front) and Dolly sit with grieving residents of Newtown, Connecticut, during a recent community meeting. The pair is part of a nine-dog team of golden retrievers sent with their volunteer handlers to Newtown after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School late last year. The dogs are also employed after natural disasters, and to bring comfort to nursing home pat...

The transition from quasiperiodicity to chaos is studied in a two-dimensional dissipative map with the inverse golden mean rotation number. On the basis of a decimation scheme, it is argued that the (minimal) slope of the critical iterated circle map is proportional to the effective Jacobian determinant. Approaching the zero-Jacobian-determinant limit, the factor of proportion becomes a univers...

We present a scheme for flow control based on the Golden Ratio Policy of Itai and Rosberg [ 5 ] that requires very few buffers and guarantees low end to end delays. Messages are formed into equal length packets and then transmitted in accordance with a cyclic schedule. The scheme is very well suited to an Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexing (ATM) environment as it allows the networks capaci...

UNLABELLED This study aimed to investigate the association of facial proportion and its relation to the golden ratio with the evaluation of facial appearance among Malaysian population. This was a cross-sectional study with 286 randomly selected from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Health Campus students (150 females and 136 males; 100 Malaysian Chinese, 100 Malaysian Malay and 86 Malaysian Ind...