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Roberta Roberts

Normally, when we explore or manipulate objects more than one of our fingers will come into contact with and move over a surface. Movement of the object or our fingers may give rise to different motion at each finger yet we retain a sense of a single object. We have investigated this by examining how correlated motion across the fingers may help detection of a kinaesthetic stimulus. We have fou...

Roberta Ballarin Validity and Necessity

In this paper I argue against the commonly received view that Kripke’s formal Possible World Semantics (PWS) reflects the adoption of a metaphysical interpretation of the modal operators. I consider in detail Kripke’s three main innovations vis-à-vis Carnap’s PWS: a new view of the worlds, variable domains of quantification, and the adoption of a universal notion of validity. I argue that all t...

Metronomic Chemotherapy Roberta

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/onk Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com Most of the phase I–II clinical studies performed up to now used ‘metronomic-like’ schedules of cytostatic agents, often administered using weekly schedules of vinca alkaloids, taxanes, anthracyclines or alkylating agents resulting, however, in high dose-density treatments. A rational ide...

Roberta Lamb, On the Way

I came to know of Roberta and her work through the late Rob Kling (her advisor) who, in the mid 1990’s, pointed me to some of Roberta’s work. I liked the focus of Roberta’s work and how she went about her scholarship. I wrote to ask about a paper of hers: she responded with a flurry of pointers and text, the first of many great interchanges. We began to interact regularly by email. I first met ...