Prime Numbers–Why are They So Exciting?

Observational studies: why are they so important?

Hippocampal stem cells: so they are multipotent!

Although neurogenesis continues throughout life in the mammalian brain, the issue of whether the stem cells that drive the process in vivo are self-renewing and multipotent remains unclear. In a recent landmark paper by Bonaguidi et al. (2011) published in Cell, the authors provide clonal evidence that neural stem cells in the dentate gyrus of the adult hippocampus are indeed multipotent and un...

Narcissistic men and women think they are so hot – But they are not

Narcissists think they are more knowledgeable, better leaders, and more attractive than others are. Higher narcissism scores in celebrities than in non-celebrities (Young & Pinsky, 2006) raise the question of whether narcissistic individuals actually are, to some degree, more knowledgeable or attractive than other individuals are. Because little research has investigated the degree to which nar...

Method and Postmethod: Are They Really So Incompatible?

n TESOL methodology is said to have moved “beyond methods” (Richards, 1990, p. 35) to the “postmethod condition” (Kumaravadivelu, 1994, p. 27). Although “postmethod pedagogy” (Kumaravadivelu, 2001) has freed us as TESOL professionals from many of the constraints of the concept of method and invigorated our practices by providing new options to the classroom teacher, the postmethod condition has...

Generic Association Rule Bases: Are They so Succinct?

In knowledge mining, current trend is witnessing the emergence of a growing number of works towards defining “concise and lossless” representations. One main motivation behind is: tagging a unified framework for drastically reducing large sized sets of association rules. In this context, generic bases of association rules – whose backbone is the conjunction of the concepts of minimal generator ...