Pelagic fish predation is stronger at temperate latitudes than near the equator

Bad Is Stronger Than Good

The greater power of bad events over good ones is found in everyday events, major life events (e.g., trauma), close relationship outcomes, social network patterns, interpersonal interactions, and learning processes. Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good. The self is more motivated to avoid bad self...

Lower predation risk for migratory birds at high latitudes.

Quantifying the costs and benefits of migration distance is critical to understanding the evolution of long-distance migration. In migratory birds, life history theory predicts that the potential survival costs of migrating longer distances should be balanced by benefits to lifetime reproductive success, yet quantification of these reproductive benefits in a controlled manner along a large geog...

When Model Bias is Stronger than

The Pill is Mightier Than the Sword

One determinant of peace is the role of women in society. Some studies suggest that a young age structure, also known as a “youth bulge” can facilitate conflict. Population growth and age structure are factors amenable to change in a human rights context. We propose that policies which favor voluntary family planning and the education of women can ameliorate the global burden of disease associa...

The k-variable property is stronger than H-dimension k

We study the notion of H-dimension and the formally stronger kvariable property, as considered by Gabbay and Immerman & Kozen. We exhibit a class of flows of time that has H-dimension 3, and admits a finite expressively complete set of one-dimensional connectives, but does not have the k-variable property for any finite k. Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic 26 (1997) 81–101. Publisher’...