The importance of ashtādhyaȳı is three fold. The first one, as is well known, as an almost exhaustive grammar for any natural language with meticulous details yet small enough to memorize. Though ashtādhyāȳı is written to describe the then prevalent Sanskrit language, it provides a grammatical framework which is general enough to analyse other languages as well. This makes the study of ashtādhy...

We ran three-round sequential bargaining experiments in which the perfect equilibrium o er was $1.25 and an equal split was $2.50. Subjects o ered $2.11 to other subjects, $1.84 to \robot" players (who are known to play subgame perfectly), and $1.22 to robots after instruction in backward induction. Measures of information search showed that subjects did not look at the amounts being divided in...

In the early 20th century, Alphonse Meunier described "Papulifères" as a group of enigmatic forms unknown taxonomic affinity characterized by possessing hyaline pimple, "papula". 1980's Papulifères were equated with cysts tintinnid ciliates. The most conspicuous forms, large Fusopsis, have been widely found, and are now known to resemble cyst certain species oligotrich ciliate (i.e., Cyrtostrom...