Author's Response: Time to forget about obesity

Don't forget about viruses.

THERE IS A GLARING OMISSION IN THE RECENT Tree of Life Special Issue (13 June, pp. 1691–1709). For too long, viruses have been overlooked by biologists attempting to frame the big picture of life’s history. Earlier views maintained that viruses are not alive because of their lifestyle as obligate parasites, or that viruses are too changeable and inscrutable for inclusion in the tree of life. We...

Author’s response to reviews Title: "I Always Tried to Forget about the Condition and Pretend I was Healed": Coping with Cervical Cancer in Rural Ghana Authors:

Title: "I Always Tried to Forget about the Condition and Pretend I was Healed": Coping with Cervical Cancer in Rural Ghana Authors: Charity Binka ([email protected]) Samuel Nyarko ([email protected]) Kofi Awusabo-Asare ([email protected]) David Doku ([email protected]) Version: 3 Date: 27 Nov 2017 Author’s response to reviews: Author’s response to reviews Title: “I Always Tried t...

Author's response to reviews Title: Prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in the Lausanne population Authors:

Think about Performance but Do Not Forget about Concurrency

Predicting the performance of concurrent programs synchronized with a given primitive on a specific chip multiprocessor is nearly impossible. The crux of the problem is that performance is affected by various causes: Two chip multiprocessors may typically offer different cache line sizes, requiring different cache padding to avoid false sharing. The synchronization used to write a concurrent pr...

Forget about the ‘correspondence theory of truth’

The topic of truth is standardly presented as a contest between several rival theories of truth: the correspondence theory, the redundancy theory, the coherence theory, and perhaps also the pragmatic and epistemic theories. The correspondence theory is supposed to be the leading contender, the one to beat. It says that truth is correspondence to fact. Four-fifths of this picture is right. The r...