Spitzer’s laws of neonatology—it’s about time someone took a critical look at this foolishness!

Thinking About Your Foolishness: Foolishness in Terms of Metacognition

As long as there is self-awareness, there will be foolishness. With the ability to reflect on one’s existence comes responsibility and a normative standard of behaviour. One perhaps distinctly human dimension of selfawareness is metacognition. ‘Thinking about your thinking’ is involved in regulating complex patterns of behaviour which may be maladaptive, selfdestructive, or a poor expression of...

a critical look at kant’s ethics

kant’s ethical theory is one the most important theories in philosophy of ethics, which has always attracted the attention of the commentators and critics. although it has many positive points, there are some objections to this theory just as to any other human theory. in this article, it is attempted to point out the critiques that seem to have been leveled against kant’s ethics. some of these...

A CRITICAL LOOK ANIMAL AT EXPERIMENTATION A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

Electrical conductivity of metals: a new look at this subject

Various parameters tied to the electrical conductivity of typical metals are estimated and are expressed in terms of universal constants. It happens that they are close to those found in metallic copper at room temperature. The fact that the realization of the model occurs at room temperature is explained by using the Landauer’s erasure principle. The averaged collision time of the electron of ...

A Critical Look at Self-Dual Codes∗

We investigate self-dual codes from a structural point of view. In particular, we study properties of critical indecomposable codes which appear in the spectrum of a self-dual code. As an application of the results we obtain, we revisit the study of self-dual codes of dimension at most 10.