"BEGOTTEN NOT MADE"

Neuroecologists' are not made of straw.

Even with time, conflict adaptation is not made of expectancies

In conflict tasks, congruency effects are modulated by the sequence of preceding trials. This modulation has been interpreted as a strategic reconfiguration of cognitive control, depending on the amount of conflict encountered on the very last trial, and occurring unconditionally whenever there is time to produce it (Notebaert et al., 2006). Jiménez and Méndez (2013) arranged a 4-choice Stroop ...

Most Real Bars are Not Made by the Bar Instability

Having once thought that we understood how some galaxies were barred and had difficulty accounting for the absence of bars in others, it now seems that we have the opposite problem. Most real galaxies have centres dense enough to inhibit bar formation, even if they have massive discs. This is also true for barred galaxies, which therefore could not have acquired their bars as a result of a self...

Global child health: promises made to children-not yet kept.

T his article represents an overview of the state of the world’s children from the late 1970s, starting with the high hopes issued from the International Conference in Alma Ata declaring ‘‘Health for all by the year 2000.’’ It progresses through the Revolution for Children including the World Summit for Children in 1990 followed by the Millennium Development Goals of 2000. We are halfway to 201...

Why not private health insurance? 1. Insurance made easy.

How realistic are proposals to expand the financing of Canadian health care through private insurance, either in a parallel stream or an expanded supplementary tier? Any successful business requires that revenues exceed expenditures. Under a voluntary health insurance plan those at highest risk would be the most likely to seek coverage; insurers working within a competitive market would have to...