Stoppage of heartbeat and breathing, the usual criteria for legal death, do not correspond to the death of cells and tissues of the body. The cells and tissues are still very much alive when death is pronounced. Even at room temperature cells and tissues take hours to die, and days to ...
We argue that this debate remains alive today due to the lack of a quantitative measure of complexity that is related to the teleonomic (i.e., goal-directed) nature of living systems. Further, we argue that such a biological measure of complexity can indeed be found in the vast literature...
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I especially loved the moment on the Discord in which a poster wrote the following (about the murder victim who is brutally tortured and set on fire while still alive):I think it’s very likely this so called ‘victim’ bulied her and deserved it. Its cr*zy to me that you could be ...
Some cling to the ranks of keeping alive, some lie in ambush to kill, and seek the darkest ways to take life. This is how history came to be. In a way, the world is the place where the desire to live and death collide. The meaning of the laws of society is also knotted in it...
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Survival data were right-censored when the female was still alive at the last capture event. We used the Cox PH model [93], based on continuous time and the assumption of perfect detection (100 % probability of capture) and available in the R package survival [94]. We built two ...
Even though I lived in those years, I confess I never thought about the powerful presence of nurses during the war, and for those who were not alive then, this book brings those years to life, a part of our history we must not forget. In recent years so many novels have been written...
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