The aim of this paper is to propose an unambiguous intrinsic formalism for higher-order field theories which avoids the arbitrariness in the generalization of the conventional description of field theories, and implies the existence of different Cartan forms and Legendre transformations. We propose a differential-geometric setting for the dynamics of a higher-order field theory, based on the Sk...

a retrospective analysis of associated variables. Chest 1993; 103:1646-50 3 Wittnich C, Trudel J, Zidulka A, Chiu RC-J. Misleading "pulmonary wedge pressure" after pneumonectomy: its importance in postoperative fluid therapy. Ann Thorac Surg 1986; 42:192-96 4 Cohen E, Neustein SM, Kirschner PA. Inadvertent transection of a pulmonary artery catheter during thoracic surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc A...

The paper considers our ordinary mentalistic discourse in relation to what we should expect from any genuine science of the mind. A meta-scientific eliminativism is commended and distinguished from the more familiar eliminativism of Skinner and the Churchlands. Meta-scientific eliminativism views folk psychology qua folksy as unsuited to offer insight into the structure of cognition, although i...

Economic burden of cardiomyopathy in Canada 2018 to 2021: opportunity for cost avoidance through pharmaceutical innovation. Brett J Skinner, PhD ABSTRACT This study estimated the economic illness associated with (CM), by hospital cost, productivity loss,

B. F. Skinner (1977) once argued that cognitive theories are essentially surrogates for the organism's (usually unknown) reinforcement history. In this article, we argue that this notion applies rather directly to a class of likelihood ratio models of human recognition memory. The point is not that such models are fundamentally flawed or that they are not useful and should be abandoned. Instead...

This article deals with an application of Aristotle’s four causes, the material, the formal, the efficient, and the final causes. Based on an initial systematic application, a new application is proposed in which some previously unconsidered aspects of Aristotle are developed. According to this new application, the material cause would be found in the organism as a whole (and not just in neurob...