Karlovy Vary 2008

Whose health? How population groups vary (body section 3; Australia's health 2008) (AIHW)

Foreword to the 16th IEEE DDECS Symposium

We cordially welcome all participants of DDECS 2013 to Karlovy Vary – the most famous spa town of the Czech Republic. The DDECS symposium series has been organized by the Czech Republic (1997, 2002, 2006, 2009), Poland (1998, 2003, 2007), Slovakia (2000, 2004, 2008), Hungary (2001, 2005), Austria (2010), Germany (2011) and Estonia (2012). After our very successful event in Tallinn, Estonia, we ...

Why does commitment vary?

For vector-borne parasites such as malaria, how withinand between-host processes interact to shape transmission is poorly understood. In the host, malaria parasites replicate asexually but for transmission to occur, specialized sexual stages (gametocytes) must be produced. Despite the central role that gametocytes play in disease transmission, explanations of why parasites adjust gametocyte pro...

When Variables Don’t Vary Enough

This paper concerns treatment of variables in a dynamic semantics. The main empirical concern will be the interaction of presupposition and quantification, but I will also consider how epistemic modals and quantifiers combine. I will show how these empirical considerations motivate a choice between two styles of quantification. The first of these styles involves treating quantified variables ra...

Molecular dating when rates vary.

Molecular-dating techniques potentially enable us to estimate the time of origin of any biological lineage. Such techniques were originally premised on the assumption of a 'molecular clock'; that is, the assumption that genetic change accumulated steadily over time. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that constant rates of molecular evolution might be the exception rather than the rule....