'Tis the gift to be simple

" 'Tis a gift to be simple...".

Covenant, Promise, and the Gift of Time

If we categorize religions according to whether they give greater prominence to time or to space, the role of “promise” marks a religion of covenant as clearly a religion of time. Yet the future is unknowable and can only be present to us as a field of possibilities. How far do these possibilities extend? The question directs us back to the nature of time, a question that became concealed in th...

Translation initiation site prediction on a genomic scale: beauty in simplicity

MOTIVATION The correct identification of translation initiation sites (TIS) remains a challenging problem for computational methods that automatically try to solve this problem. Furthermore, the lion's share of these computational techniques focuses on the identification of TIS in transcript data. However, in the gene prediction context the identification of TIS occurs on the genomic level, whi...

Review of Reviews/ ‘Tis Truth not Imagination: A Response to "Sometimes a Desire for Truth, Sometimes Imagination: A Critique on the Book Kimia, The Child of Mowlana’s Household": Gholamreza Khaki

Social Approval as a Motivation to Give

The aim of this paper to explain gift-giving by means of social approval. In a simple framework we are able to account for a number of stylized facts. These are that gift-giving is often reciprocal, that gifts tend to be inadequate, and that gift-giving is sometimes reduced after a monetary compensation is o¤ered. The implication for the interaction between gift-giving and the market institutio...