John Bowlby was a psychoanalyst (like Freud) and believed that mental health and behavioural problems could be attributed to early childhood. Bowlby's evolutionary theory of attachment suggests that children come into the world biologically pre-programmed to form attachments with others, because this will help them to survive. Bowlby was very much influenced by ethological theory in general, bu...

The mediaeval logic of Aristotelian privation, represented by Ockham’sexposition of All A is non-P as All S is of a type T that is naturally P and no S isP, is critically evaluated as an account of privative negation. It is argued thatthere are two senses of privative negation: (1) an intensifier (as in subhuman),the inverse of Neoplatonic hypernegation (superhuman), which is st...

In “Why Abortion is Immoral,” Don Marquis argues that a sufficient condition for the wrongness of killing an adult is the victim’s loss of a valuable future like ours. Our future is valuable because it is full of valuable possibilities. Because the wrongness of killing an adult is due to the privation of future possibilities, and fetuses have future possibilities, Marquis concludes that killing...

In order to evaluate the role of insulin in chicken, an insulin immuno-neutralization was performed. Fed chickens received 1 or 3 i.v. injections of anti-insulin serum (2-h intervals), while fed or fasted controls received normal serum. Measurements included insulin signaling cascade (at 1 h in liver and muscle), metabolic or endocrine plasma parameters (at 1 and 5 h), and qRT-PCR analysis (at ...

pro-market economists usually present “competition” as the only solution of government’s inefficiencies. therefore, having given too much credence to the private sector in economy, they choose market strategy rather than state strategy in economic policies, prizing market choice above state choice, thereby advising strongly privatization policies in the economic system in order to inject ration...

Although two decades have passed since copper was shown to stimulate blood vessel formation in the avascular cornea of rabbits, only recently have clinical trials established that Cu privation by diet or by Cu chelators diminishes a tumor's ability to mount an angiogenic response. These data have shed new light on the functional role of Cu in microvessel development and, of equal importance, st...