How are so many foreign arboviruses introduced in Brazil?

How are so many foreign arboviruses introduced in Brazil?

If so many are “few,” how few are “many”?

The scope of reference of a word's meaning can be highly variable. We present a novel paradigm to investigate the flexible interpretation of word meaning. We focus on quantifiers such as "many" or "few," a class of words that depends on number knowledge but can be interpreted in a flexible manner. Healthy young adults performed a truth value judgment task on pictorial arrays of varying amounts ...

How Do so Few Control so Many?

The separation of sister chromatids at the metaphase-to-anaphase transition is triggered by a protease called separase that is activated by the destruction of an inhibitory chaperone (securin). This process is mediated by a ubiquitin protein ligase called the anaphase-promoting complex or cyclosome (APC/C), along with a protein called Cdc20. It is vital that separase not be activated before eve...

What are goals ? And if so , how many ? Matthias Rolf

Goals are concepts used in many different areas of robotics, artificial intelligence, psychology, neuroscience, and also philosophy. Despite the wide usage, there is no common definition of a “goal”. Rather, the term is used in substantially different ways even within disciplines. This paper discusses these notions and potentially unified views on goals, and points out how different perspective...

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

We thank the Russell Sage Foundation for their generous support of this research.