The Case for Technosignatures: Why They May Be Abundant, Long-lived, Highly Detectable, and Unambiguous

AdipoRon may be benefit for atherosclerosis prevention

Atherosclerosis has serious role in coronary arteries disease,so it is important to establish effective strategies for prevention or even treatment of atherosclerosis. Adiponectin, as one of the most abundant adipokines, has insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic properties. Disturbed adiponectin actions through its receptor, (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) may be involved in atheros...

Why a Long-lived Fireball Can Be Compatible with Hbt Measurements * )

The common interpretation of HBT data measured at top SPS energies leads to apparent source lifetimes of 6–8 fm/c and emission duration of approximately 2–3 fm/c. We investigate a scenario with continuous pion emission from a long-lived (∼ 17 fm/c) thermalized source in order to show that it is not excluded by the data. Starting from a description of the source’s spacetime expansion based on gr...

Why Even Good Defenses May be Bad

Why negative meta-analyses may be false?

Results of meta-analyses are regarded as the highest level of evidence. A statistically non-significant effect size from a meta-analysis is typically considered true negative even in the presence of a statistically significant signal in individual studies, presumed to be false positive. Here we provide examples from neuroimaging, genetics and psychopharmacology of why meta-analyses may frequent...

Why Reasons May Not Be Causes

This paper considers Davidson’s (1963) arguments for construing reasons as causes and attempts to show that he has failed to provide positive reasons for introducing causation into his analysis of rationalizing explanation. I consider various ways of spelling out his intuition that something is missing from explanation if we consider only the justificatory relation between reasons and action, a...