Revenge Buying

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus.

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Andrea Velardi UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA In this issue of Blood, Foley et al show that, in allogeneic hematopoietic transplant recipients, donor-derived natural killer (NK) cells respond to cytomegalovirus (CMV) by acquiring features that are reminiscen...

ADAMTS revenge on Eve?

Field on Revenge ∗

In a series of recent papers, 1 Hartry Field has proposed a novel class of solutions to the semantic paradoxes, and argued that the new solutions are 'revenge-immune'. He has argued, in particular, that by building on a sufficiently expressive language one can get a language which is able to express its own semantic theory, including its own truth predicates and any intelligible determinacy pre...

Revenge of The Given

ing from some or other opaque one; viz by ignoring the mode of representation in certain specifications of a representational content. There are, to be sure, two ways one might read an assertion that John believes the king of France is bored: according to the opaque construal, the speaker takes responsibility for the definite description, according to the transparent construal he doesn’t. (See ...

Does Buying High Mean Buying Often

Many durable goods, particularly in the high technology sector of the economy, experience rapid quality improvement. As a result, replacement is typically due to obsolescence rather than breakdown, and replacement cycles are generally short. When these goods are vertically differentiated, consumers must make two important, inter-related choices upon making a purchase: what quality level to buy,...