Killing creatures with kindness

Killing with kindness? Drug reaction eosinophilia with systemic symptoms (DRESS) masquerading as acute severe sepsis.

Killing Them with Kindness? In-Hive Medications May Inhibit Xenobiotic Efflux Transporters and Endanger Honey Bees

BACKGROUND Honey bees (Apis mellifera) have recently experienced higher than normal overwintering colony losses. Many factors have been evoked to explain the losses, among which are the presence of residues of pesticides and veterinary products in hives. Multiple residues are present at the same time, though most often in low concentrations so that no single product has yet been associated with...

Evading Predictors with Creatures

We continue the theory of evasion and prediction which was introduced by Blass and developed by Brendle, Shelah, and Laflamme. We prove that for arbitrary sufficiently different f, g ∈ ωω, it is consistent to have eg < ef , where ef is the evasion number of the space ∏ n<ω f(n). For this we apply a variant of Shelah’s “creature forcing”.

Games with creatures

Many forcing notions obtained using the creature technology are naturally connected with certain integer games.

Modelling Kindness∗

Kindness is an important concept in reciprocity theory, and may matter also for other forms of motivation. We critically compare definitions proposed by Rabin (1993) and by Dufwenberg & Kirchsteiger (2004). Several reasons to prefer the latter definition are highlighted, but also a flaw (discovered by Isoni & Sugden 2018) which we show can be eliminated using a slightly revised definition.