An Exception to a Sound Law

Economic Decisions for Others: An Exception to Loss Aversion Law

In everyday life, people often make decisions on behalf of others. The current study investigates whether risk preferences of decision-makers differ when the reference point is no longer their own money but somebody else money. Thirty four healthy participants performed three different monetary risky choices tasks by making decisions for oneself and for another unknown person. Results showed th...

Adapting C++ Exception Handling to an Extended COM Exception Model

The reliability of a software system is to a high degree determined by the reliability of the software components comprising the system [KriMat97]. For a software component to be reliable it must be able recover various exceptions or failures that may arise at run-time, i.e. it must be fault tolerant. Code for exception detection, handling, and signalling often amounts to a substantial portion ...

An exception to final devoicing

All Dutch dialects — or, more generally, all West-Germanic dialects except English — display the effects of a process called final devoicing (FD), illustrated in (1) for standard Dutch: an underlyingly voiced obstruent devoices when it occurs at the end of a syllable. That the obstruent is underlyingly voiced can be seen in other morphological contexts, where it does not end the syllable. Thus ...

Semaphorin 3E, an exception to the rule.

Class 3 semaphorins (Sema3s) regulate axon guidance, angiogenesis, tumor growth, and tumor metastasis. Neuropilins (NRPs; NRP1 and NRP2) are the cell surface receptors for the Sema3s. However, to signal, interaction of Sema3s and NRPs with plexins is obligatory. In this issue of the JCI, Casazza and colleagues report data that challenge the conventional wisdom about the role of Sema3s in tumor ...

Panel 2: Normalisation of the Exception: the Complicity of Law