DR. MERCIER AND THE LOGICIANS

Raphael Mercier

Raphael Mercier is a researcher at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin, located at the Versailles node of INRA. He graduated from the University of Paris XI in 2001. After a postdoc at the University of Birmingham UK with Gareth Jones and Chris Franklin, he returned to Versailles, where he got a permanent position in 2003. His entire scientific career has been devoted to the study of meiosis in t...

the innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran

آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...

Logicians Who Reason About Themselves

By treating belief as a modality and combining this with problems about constant truth tel lers and constant l iars (knights and knaves) we obtain some curious epistemic counterparts of undecidability results in metamathematics. Godel's second theorem gets reflected in a logician who cannot believe in his own consistency without becoming inconsistent. Lob's theorem reflects i t se l f in a vari...

Three Logicians: Aristotle, Saccheri, Frege

Mercier therapy helps infertile women achieve pregnancy.

Introduction Among women ages 15–44, 6.7 million have impaired ability to have children, 1.5 million are infertile, and 7.4 million have used infertility services in their lifetime (www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/fertile.htm). Now more than ever, women are having their fertility manipulated by reproductive endocrinology clinics and are undergoing multiple cycles without knowing the long-term effects ...