Does a Pre-Existing Duty Defeat Consideration?. Recent Noteworthy Decisions

Does a Pre-Existing Duty Defeat Consideration?

Rethinking Privacy Decisions: Pre-Existing Attitudes, Pre-Existing Emotional States, and a Situational Privacy Calculus

As a potential explanation to measured inconsistencies between stated privacy concerns and actual disclosing behavior, denoted as the „privacy paradox“, scholars have proposed a systematic distinction between situational privacy considerations and pre-existing, superordinate factors that shape the decisive situation without being directly connected to the situation itself. Deploying an experime...

Gle1 Does Double Duty

During nuclear export, Gle1 (the nuclear-pore-associated mRNA export factor) activates the DEAD-box protein Dbp5 to remodel exported mRNA-protein complexes on the cytoplasmic face of the nuclear pore complex. In this issue, Bolger et al. (2008) now report additional roles for Gle1 in translation initiation and termination.

Recent Decisions

Does Korean defeat phonotactic word segmentation?

Computational models of infant word segmentation have not been tested on a wide range of languages. This paper applies a phonotactic segmentation model to Korean. In contrast to the undersegmentation pattern previously found in English and Russian, the model exhibited more oversegmentation errors and more errors overall. Despite the high error rate, analysis suggested that lexical acquisition m...