Football is football and is interesting, very interesting

Why is Mind Wandering Interesting for Philosophers ?

This chapter explores points of contact between philosophy of mind and scientific approaches to spontaneous thought. While offering a series of conceptual instruments that might prove helpful for researchers on the empirical research frontier, it begins by asking what the explanandum for theories of mind wandering is, how one can conceptually individuate single occurrences of this specific targ...

What Is Interesting in Operations Management?

What is interesting research? Is it merely in the eye of the beholder? Or is there something more systematic about what is interesting? We all want to write, and editors should only want to publish, interesting research. And we all (hopefully) think our own research is interesting. But what will others find interesting? I claim that there is one key ingredient to “interesting.” Interesting mean...

The End of a Very Interesting Year

How Feasible is Officiating Technology in Football?

Technology in football has been debated by pundits, players and fans all over the world for the past decade. FIFA has recently commissioned the use of ‘Hawk-Eye’ and ‘Goal Ref’ goal line technology systems at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. This paper gives an in depth evaluation of the possible technologies that could be used in football and determines the potential benefits and implications the...

VIP1 is very important/interesting protein 1 regulating touch responses of Arabidopsis

VIP1 (VIRE2-INTERACTING PROTEIN 1) is a bZIP transcription factor in Arabidopsis thaliana. VIP1 and its close homologs (i.e., Arabidopsis group I bZIP proteins) are present in the cytoplasm under steady conditions, but are transiently localized to the nucleus when cells are exposed to hypo-osmotic conditions, which mimic mechanical stimuli such as touch. Recently we have reported that overexpre...