How Harmful are Survey Translations? A Test with Schwartz's Human Values Instrument

How Harmful are Survey Translations? A Test with Schwartz's Human Values Instrument

Endocrine disrupting chemicals: harmful substances and how to test them.

This paper presents an analysis of the opinions of different groups from: scientists, international regulatory bodies, non-governmental organizations and industry; with an interest in the problem of identifying chemical substances with endocrine disrupting activity. There is also discussion of the consequences that exposure to endocrine disruptors may have for human health, considering concrete...

How Problematic are Clitics for S-TAG Translations?

We show that clitics are not as problematic for Synchronous TAG as has been Sllpposed, and give two solutio11s; a11d, in doing so, demonstrate that 'unbounded relations ', such as it is argued clitics induce between dependency trees, are only a11 artefact of particular analyses.

How Harmful Are the Average American’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

It has sometimes been claimed (usually without evidence) that the harm caused by an individual’s participation in a greenhouse-gas-intensive economy is negligible. Using data from several contemporary sources, this paper attempts to estimate the harm done by an average American. This estimate is crude, and further refinements are surely needed. But the upshot is that the average American is res...

How meaningful are Bayesian support values?

In this study, we used an empirical example based on 100 mitochondrial genomes from higher teleost fishes to compare the accuracy of parsimony-based jackknife values with Bayesian support values. Phylogenetic analyses of 366 partitions, using differential taxon and character sampling from the entire data matrix of 100 taxa and 7,990 characters, were performed for both phylogenetic methods. The ...