What will the first year of SNO show?

SNO + detector : preparations for first physics data

SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino detector, which will primarily study neutrinoless double beta decay. Preparations are underway for the first phase of physics data-taking, with a water-filled detector. In terms of hardware, recent electronics repairs are described, as well as the programme which has shown to be ∼90% effective in repairing failed photomultiplier tubes. Testing of Data Quality ha...

Preventing suicide: what will work and what will not.

What will noninvasive carotid atherosclerosis imaging show us about high-risk coronary plaques?

The quest to noninvasively identify vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques that pose an increased risk of heart attack and stroke may have gained another tool in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Vulnerable plaque imaging remains a challenging field for many reasons: from the spatial resolution needed to identify thin cap fibroatheroma in the coronary arteries, to quantifying the amount of lipid co...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

What Incongruent Counterparts Show

In a recent paper, Robert Hanna argues that Kant’s incongruent counterparts example can be mobilized to show that some mental representations, which represent complex states of affairs as complex, do so entirely non-conceptually. I will argue that Hanna is right to see that Kant uses incongruent counterparts to show that there must be a non-conceptual component to cognition, but goes too far in...