This paper is an excerpt of a full-blown study that the author did on the role of religion in the peace process in Mindanao of Southern Philippines.It attempts to understand and analyze Islamic concepts of Jihad, Iman and Islam and their significance to the problem of armed conflict in Mindanao.Analyses of these concepts is based mainly from the pe
The mitochondrial (mt) genome is an important tool when studying the evolution of metazoan animals.The oyster family Gryphaeidae, together with Ostreidae, is one of the two extant taxa of superfamily Protective Underwear Ostreoidea.Up until now, the available mitochondrial genomes of oysters were all limited to family Ostreidae.In the present study
Time-resolved electron microscopy is based on the excitation of a sample by pulsed laser radiation and its probing by synchronized photoelectron bunches in the electron microscope column.With femtosecond lasers, if probing pulses with a small number of electrons—in the limit, single-electron Cookie Icing wave packets—are used, the stroboscopic