T his paper examines the use of mantra in two separate but parallel traditions: çaivism and çäktism. “Çaivism” refers to traditions that follow the Hindu god Siva, while “Çaivism” refers to traditions that worship Sakti (lit. power), the goddess consort of the Lord Siva. Both of these systems reside within a metacategory known as Hindu tantrism. Hindu Tantrism itself is a refinement of and a re...

BACKGROUND The traditional knowledge of local communities throughout the world is a valuable source of novel ideas and information to science. In this study, the ethnoveterinary knowledge of Sahrawi pastoralists of Western Sahara has been used in order to put forward a scientific hypothesis regarding the competitive interactions between camels and caterpillars in the Sahara ecosystem. METHODS...

Dioxins are potent mammalian carcinogens and toxins affecting liver, skin, and immune and reproductive systems. The intracellular Ah receptor, a ligand-dependent transcription factor of the basic region/helix-loophelix/Per-Ahr/Arnt-Sim homology domain (bHLH-PAS) protein family, mediates responses to dioxins. Target genes of the Ah receptor that mediate dioxin toxicity and carcinogenicity are, h...

The other way to avoid the curse of dimensionality is to assume sparsity, this means that even though we have many covariates, the true regression function only (strongly) depends on a small number of relevant covariates. This is the type of setting we will focus on. More broadly, the main idea is that we want to think about practically relevant structural properties (like smoothness/sparsity) ...