The paper investigates the political role of the last Catholic dogmas proclaimed (or renewed) in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century: the immaculate conception, the papal primacy and infallibility (ex cathedra), and the assumption of Mary.The paper aims to explain their political role in the concrete international context.The Cupcake Ti
Progress results from human interaction.Advances in knowledge, transportation, communication, technology and industry have aided in social development only to the extent that they have brought greater numbers of people closer.It is only human ingenuity that has achieved.Historically, every event that marks a step forward in social evolution coincid
The organization of drainage basins shows some reproducible phenomena, as exemplified by self-similar fractal river Drum Table network structures and typical scaling laws, and these have been related to energetic optimization principles, such as minimization of stream power, minimum energy expenditure or maximum "access".Here we describe the organi
Prognostic markers derived from standard ECG have always been seductive.Increased dispersion of durations Inhalers of the P wave, of the QRS complex, or of the QT interval has been associated with the risk of atrial fibrillation, ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, as well as with a general negative prognosis in various settings.However,