Editor's Corner: Concluding Thoughts on Change and Independence

Concluding Thoughts: the Future of Offshore Aquaculture

The Offshore Aquaculture Consortium (OAC) was created as a collaborative, Gulf-wide, interdisciplinary research and development program in response to the U.S. Department of Commerce Aquaculture Policy. OAC research has demonstrated numerous components of offshore aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico including permitting requirements, mooring systems, cage/mooring survival during several hurricane...

Concluding thoughts on the new nature of disaster management

Environmental cataclysms will be with mankind even after we have learned to prevent man-made disasters. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, disaster planning, preparedness, and responses were mostly theoretical and based on our preconceived notions of what a disaster should be [1] and were mostly untested, except on relatively small scales. Katrina has changed that in many ways. We knew Katrina was com...

Putting Thoughts to Work: Concepts, Systematicity, and Stimulus-Independence*

I argue that we can reconcile two seemingly incompatible traditions for thinking about concepts. On the one hand, many cognitive scientists assume that the systematic redeployment of representational abilities suffices for having concepts. On the other hand, a long philosophical tradition maintains that language is necessary for genuinely conceptual thought. I argue that on a theoretically usef...

The Assessment of Teacher Assessment: Concluding Thoughts and Some Lingering Questions

Girth, minimum degree, independence, and broadcast independence

An independent broadcast on a connected graph $G$is a function $f:V(G)to mathbb{N}_0$such that, for every vertex $x$ of $G$, the value $f(x)$ is at most the eccentricity of $x$ in $G$,and $f(x)>0$ implies that $f(y)=0$ for every vertex $y$ of $G$ within distance at most $f(x)$ from $x$.The broadcast independence number $alpha_b(G)$ of $G$is the largest weight $sumlimits_{xin V(G)}f(x)$of an ind...