Research Techniques Are Not Simple

Some simple techniques helpful in ant research.

Eight simple techniques which may be helpful in ant research are presented. They facilitate: (1) collecting ground-nesting ants; (2) prompting ants to go out of their nest chambers; (3) introducing ants into a test tube; (4) recapturing ants during their mass escape in the laboratory; (5) keeping tidy foraging areas of artificial ant nests; (6) keeping high level of air humidity in foraging are...

Posing the research question: not so simple.

PURPOSE The success of any research process relies, in part, on how well investigators are able to translate a clinical problem into a research question-a task that is not so simple for novice investigators. The PICOT approach requires that the framing of the research question specify the target Population, the Intervention of interest, the Comparator intervention, key Outcomes, and the Time fr...

Simple Priced Timed Games are not That Simple

Priced timed games are two-player zero-sum games played on priced timed automata (whose locations and transitions are labeled by weights modeling the costs of spending time in a state and executing an action, respectively). The goals of the players are to minimise and maximise the cost to reach a target location, respectively. We consider priced timed games with one clock and arbitrary (positiv...

Easy lambda-terms are not always simple

A closed λ-termM is easy if, for any other closed termN , the lambda theory generated by M = N is consistent, while it is simple easy if, given an arbitrary intersection type τ , one can find a suitable pre-order on types which allows to derive τ forM . Simple easiness implies easiness. The question whether easiness implies simple easiness constitutes Problem 19 in the TLCA list of open problem...

Research output indicators are not productivity indicators