Animals incorporated

Black Boxes, Incorporated

The term “Black Box” often refers to a device whose functionality we understand, but whose inner workings we don’t, or choose to ignore. This term appears a lot in a large variety of contexts within theoretical computer science, and happens to be extremely convenient to capture computations with restricted knowledge about or access to certain information. In its most basic form, a black box (al...

Aniline incorporated silica nanobubbles

We report the synthesis of stearate functionalized nanobubbles of SiO2 with a few aniline molecules inside, represented as C6H5NH2@SiO2@stearate, exhibiting fluorescence with red-shifted emission. Stearic acid functionalization allows the materials to be handled just as free molecules, for dissolution, precipitation, storage etc. The methodology adopted involves adsorption of aniline on the sur...

Gadolinium-HU-308-incorporated micelles

Incorporated Means Symbolic and Embodied

In a response to our contribution, Geeraerts, who we would like to thank for his provocative insights, argues that we confuse theoretical and metho-dological contrasts: We " equate a theoretical opposition between a 'sym-bolical' and an 'embodied' framework with a methodological contrast between an empirical and an intuitive approach, but [he argues] such an equation is unmotivated ". Let us fi...

Lexicalism, Incorporated (or Incorporation, Lexicalized)

The topic of this paper is a kind of morphological structure that looks as if it might be formed within the syntax: Noun Incorporation. This is a feature of a wide range of languages, including (in its purest form) Mohawk, Chuckchee, Southern Tiwa, Classical Nahuatl, and many others; and it has attracted attention for quite some time. Adopting a classical formulation, Noun Incorporation is a co...