TERMINOLOGY MATTERS ON THEORETICAL GROUNDS TOO!

A Theoretical Review of Disaster’s Social Terminology

Background and Aim: Using common terms and synonyms, such as concepts related to natural crisis managements, is one of the major challenges in interdisciplinary topics; which are apparently similar but have different meanings and practical implications. “Natural disaster” is one of these terms. The main purpose of this study is to describe the common and professional term in science and creatin...

Hemophilia, Christmas disease, and matters of terminology.

Root Development: Cytokinin Transport Matters, Too!

Unlike the plant hormone auxin, the mechanism and function of cytokinin transport is poorly characterised. Two new studies now demonstrate that cytokinins transported from shoot to roots via the phloem are critical for creating mutually exclusive auxin and cytokinin signalling domains that control root vascular patterning.

Size matters: performance declines if your pixels are too big or too small

We present a conceptual model that describes the effect of pixel size on target acquisition. We demonstrate the use of our conceptual model by applying it to predict and explain the results of an experiment to evaluate users’ performance in a target acquisition task involving three distinct display sizes: standard desktop, small and large displays. The results indicate that users are fastest on...

On What Grounds What

ion: The grounding relations are relations of abstraction. The derivative entities, in order to be an ‘‘ontological free lunch’’ and count as no further addition, ought to be already latent within the substances. In other words, the grounding relations should just be ways of separating out aspects that are implicitly present from the start.37 Here is the sort of picture of substances that these...