Days of Future Past: Reply to Open Peer Commentaries on “Revising, Correcting, and Transferring Genes”

Commentary: “Rabies in Iranian Traditional Medicine” & Reply to Commentary on “Rabies in Iran: Past, Present and Future”

Evolution of Peer-to-peer algorithms: Past, present and future

Today peer-to-peer applications are widely used for different purposes. People chat, talk, play games, share resources and content using peer-to-peer technology every day. Such peer-to-peer applications as Skype (P2P telephony), ICQ (P2P instant messaging), Kazaa (P2P content sharing) and SETI@home (P2P resource sharing) have enjoyed huge popularity in recent years and are used by millions of p...

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My first reply in this symposium is to Reis regarding his elaborations of Mitchell’s ideas that lend to comparisons of the Relationalists and the Intersubjectivists. I concur with Reis that differences between the two have less to do with language use per se than their views about analytic authority, to which I add the issue of analytic attitude. In replying to Clement, I underscore her importa...

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The primary goal of Evolutionary Phonology is to explain recurrent sound patterns in spoken languages across time and space. One domain of explanation is diachronic, and much of my own work has focused on diachronic explanations (e.g. Blevins 2004, 2006a, to appear a, to appear b, to appear c, this volume). Another domain of explanation is synchronic. A range of synchronic factors, from the mec...

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The primary goal of Evolutionary Phonology is to explain recurrent sound patterns in spoken languages across time and space. One domain of explanation is diachronic, and much of my own work has focused on diachronic explanations (e.g. Blevins 2004, 2006a, To appear a, To appear b, To appear c, this volume). Another domain of explanation is synchronic. A range of synchronic factors, from the mec...