In social insect colonies workers realize their reproductive potential through rearing the queen's brood. In the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes exclamans (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) castes are not morphologically distinct. ...

The elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of platelet adhesion and aggregation in response to naturally occurring subendothelial surfaces under flow conditions is important medically in atherosclerosis and mural thrombosis. ...

This paper describes the development and use of multiscale, platelet-based image reconstruction algorithms in medical imaging. Such algorithms are effective because platelets approximate images in certain (piecewise) ...

This paper proposes a new multiscale image decomposition based on platelets. Platelets are localized functions at various scales, locations, and orientations that produce piecewise linear image approximations. Platelets ...

The political and cultural forces of Periclean Athens brought rhetoric to the fore as the master knowledge. Through the school of Isocrates this perspective continued into the fourth century. Read in this context Plato's ...

Plato's late works contain an unexpectedly consistent treatment of the physics and metaphysics of souls. In the course of showing this, I argue that: (1) the middle period dialogues Phaedo and Republic assume, but do not ...

Among Tamil Brahmnin Aiyars, the world of women is separate yet complementary to the world of men. These women, through their rituals comprising primarily non-Vedic (laukik, oral) life cycle rituals and vows (vratas/nombus), ...

Each hour there are thousands of security cameras recording our public places. The millions of hours of saved surveillance footage creates a strange and fascinating record of our daily lives. The authors of these videos ...