Can mechanism help explain insect host choice?

Microbes can help explain the evolution of host altruism

The evolution of altruistic behaviour, which is costly to the donor but beneficial for the recipient, is among the most intriguing questions in evolutionary biology. Several theories have been proposed to explain it, including kin selection, group selection and reciprocity. Here we propose that microbes that manipulate their hosts to act altruistically could be favoured by selection, and may pl...

Can Neural Adaptation Explain Word Choice?

Speakers refer to objects using terms on various levels of description. Labeling a poodle, they use the subordinate term “poodle” or the basic term “dog”. Our model attributes these effects to visual context, relying on the domain general mechanism of neural adaptation. Two SOMs represent visual and auditory categories. Word learning is modeled via simultaneous presentation of item and word for...

Can information theory explain early word choice.

One problem of interest in child language study has been specifying what features of the speech situation determine what children will say. Several cognitively based approaches to child language development have proposed principles of 'informativeness' to explain the child's choice of word(s). These principles predict that the child will choose the 'most informative' element of a situation and ...

Can National Savings Help Explain Post-disaster Changes in Consumption?

Data linkage studies can help to explain the weekend effect

www.thelancet.com Published online May 9, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31195-9 1 Is the weekend effect a worrying manifestation of systematic deficiencies in the quality and safety of health care, or instead simply an artefact, constructed from confounding, bias, and the imperfections of existing methods for making sense of observational data? This question has not only motivate...