Give chance a chance: from coexistence to coviability in biodiversity theory

Give chance a chance

How did I get to become a cell biologist? Or, more generally, why do things happen the way they do? The answer provided by the philosopher Democritus and later adopted by Jacques Monod is "everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." While I read Monod's book Chance and Necessity as an undergraduate student, little did I appreciate the accuracy of this citation and...

Give Us a Chance, Matron

Glare Marc Wallace shows, by her own experience, mat me uuiding profession is no different from any other when it comes to re-employing a member who has been mentally ill I have been an atypical schizophrenic for 12 years, and have been admitted to psychiatric hospital on 17 occasions for short periods during that time. Because of my history, I have had difficulty in getting suitable work. The ...

Give the kid a chance.

Autobiographical Brand Images Give a Higher Chance to False Memory as Compared to Neutral Images

Consumers’ prior experiences shape an episodic memory which largely influences their decision-making process. This episodic memory is mainly linked to cognitive and emotional perception and we know that a brand image influences our cognitive and emotional perception. Nevertheless, it has not been well described how autobiographical memories of brand images differ from those of other types of im...

Give chance a chance- modeling density to enhance scatter plot quality through random data sampling

The problem of visualizing huge amounts of data is well known in Information Visualization. Dealing with a large number of items forces almost any kind of Infovis technique to reveal its limits in terms of expressivity and scalability. In this paper we focus on 2D scatter plots, proposing a ”feature preservation” approach, based on the idea of modeling the visualization in a virtual space in or...