Not as clear as expected: what genetic data tell about Southern Hemisphere corellids (Ascidiacea: Phlebobranchia)

Domain Parking: Not as Malicious as Expected

Domain parking is the practice of assigning a nonsense address to a domain when it is not in use in order to keep it ready for “live” use. This practice is peculiar because it indicates someone has administrative control over the domain name, does not have hardware ready to respond to requests, but wants the domain to appear active. A more appropriate response would seem to us to be that the do...

What baboons can (not) tell us about natural language grammars.

Rey et al. (2012) present data from a study with baboons that they interpret in support of the idea that center-embedded structures in human language have their origin in low level memory mechanisms and associative learning. Critically, the authors claim that the baboons showed a behavioral preference that is consistent with center-embedded sequences over other types of sequences. We argue that...

Domain Parking: Not as Malicious as ExpectedDomain Parking: Not as Malicious as Expected

Domain parking is the practice of assigning a nonsense location to a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) when it is not in use in order to keep it ready for “live” use. This practice is peculiar because it indicates someone has administrative control over the domain name, does not have hardware ready to respond to requests, but wants the domain to appear active. A more appropriate response would...

What do sales data tell us about implant survival?

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of implant diameter, length and shape on a surrogate parameter of implant survival; i.e. the implant return rate in a big data analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective study was conducted and the factors influencing the success rates of 69,377 sold implants over a seven-year period were evaluated. The osseointegration progra...

What Do College Ranking Data Tell Us About Student Retention?