'Nothing' Compares to You

Nothing Compares to You

Comparative constructions are a classical topic in semantics. The vast majority of the literature on comparatives, though, is focused on languages like English, French or German. These languages are special in that adjectives take comparative morphology, and in that they allow for comparative phrases as well as clauses. Stassen’s (1985) survey of comparative constructions shows that this is a r...

Nothing compares 2 views: change blindness can occur despite preserved access to the changed information.

Change blindness, the failure to detect visual changes that occur during a disruption, has increasingly been used to infer the nature of internal representations. If every change were detected, detailed representations of the world would have to be stored and accessible. However, because many changes are not detected, visual representations might not be complete, and access to them might be lim...

Biomarkers of Progression after HIV Acute/Early Infection: Nothing Compares to CD4+ T-cell Count?

Progression of HIV infection is variable among individuals, and definition disease progression biomarkers is still needed. Here, we aimed to categorize the predictive potential of several variables using feature selection methods and decision trees. A total of seventy-five treatment-naïve subjects were enrolled during acute/early HIV infection. CD4⁺ T-cell counts (CD4TC) and viral load (VL) lev...

Nothing Compares 2 U: The Performance of Prince through Cover Songs

Without You, I’m Nothing: Performances of the Self on Twitter

Online social platforms collapse or converge public and private boundaries, creating both opportunities and challenges for pursuing publicity, privacy, and sociality. Presentations of the self thus become networked performances that must convey polysemic content to audiences, actual and imagined, without compromising one’s own sense of self. This study explored how individuals perform the self ...