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Population strategies for prevention? If only it were that simple!

Embedding If and Only If

Compounds of indicative conditionals present some puzzling phenomena. Perhaps most striking, some nested indicative conditionals are uninterpretable. Proponents of NTV hold that indicative conditionals do not have truth values, and they use this to explain why nested indicative conditionals are sometimes uninterpretable: the embedded conditional does not provide the truth conditions needed by t...

What if Chomsky were right?

The outcome of scientific research depends on how a phenomenon is viewed and how the questions are phrased. This applies also to the nativist view of language acquisition. As a complement to MacWhinney’s discussion of nativism from the viewpoint of cognitive psychology, I would like to devote this commentary to the question of the title from the viewpoint of computational linguistics. Formally,...

What if entropy were dimensionless?

One of entropy’s puzzling aspects is its dimensions of energy/temperature. A review of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics leads to six conclusions: ~1! Entropy’s dimensions are linked to the definition of the Kelvin temperature scale. ~2! Entropy can be defined to be dimensionless when temperature T is defined as an energy ~dubbed tempergy!. ~3! Dimensionless entropy per particle typicall...

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A. Hotouras*†, Y. Ribas‡, S. A. Zakeri†, Q. M. Nunes§, J. Murphy¶, C. Bhan† and S. D. Wexner** *National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation, †Department of Surgery, Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK, ‡Department of Surgery, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, §NIHR Liverpool Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Univers...