In this paper I investigate the evolution of cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma when individuals change their strategies subject to performance evaluation of their neighbours over variable time horizons. In the monochrome setting, in which all agents per default share the same performance evaluation rule, weighing past events strongly dramatically enhances the prevalence of cooperators. For ...

If you ask most medical school deans if they have a course, program, or center doing bioethics, they will enthusiastically assure you that they do. And their enthusiasm for bioethics grows exponentially in proportion to their interest in showing that they are doing something about managing research ethics issues at their institutions. The same can be said about the entire biomedical research es...

Amphibole (Amp) plays a crucial role in the study of several earth and planetary processes. One its most common applications is thermobarometry, especially for volcanic-magmatic systems. However, many thermobarometers require input melt composition, which not always available volcanic products (e.g., partially crystallized melts or devitrified glasses), show rather high errors characterizing de...

The static stationary axially symmetric background (" infinite cosmic string ") of the D = 4 string theory provided with an axion charge is studied in the effective theory approach. The most general exact solution is constructed. It is found that the Kalb-Ramond axion charge, present in the string topology R 3 ×S 1 , produces nontrivial gravitational field configurations which feature horizons....

We introduce two new families of solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations with negative cosmological constant in 5 dimensions. These solutions are static black holes whose horizons are modelled on the 3-geometries nilgeometry and solvegeometry. Thus the horizons (and the exterior spacetimes) can be foliated by compact 3-manifolds that are neither spherical, toroidal, hyperbolic, nor product m...

We present a static solution for d = 2 critical string theory including the tachyon T but not its potential V (T ). This solution thus incorporates tachyon back reaction and, when T = 0, reduces to the black hole solution. When T 6= 0 one finds that (1) the Schwarzschild horizon of the above black hole splits into two, resembling Reissner-Nordstrom horizons and (2) the curvature scalar develops...