Empirical arguments for materialism are highly circumstantial—based, as they are, upon inductions from our knowledge of the physical and upon the fact that mental phenomena have physical correlates, causes and effects. However, the qualitative characteristics of first-person conscious experience are empirically distinct from uncontroversially physical phenomena in being—at least on our present ...

The author condemns the “hegemony” of scientifi c materialism, comparing it to the dominance of scholasticism during the Middle Ages. He points out that if we are to regard religious entities and spiritual experiences as “supernatural” and imaginary on the grounds that they cannot be measured and described objectively, then we must regard all our experience of the world as equally supernatural ...

JCB • VOLUME 170 • NUMBER 6 • 2005 862 Keeping RNA away from DNA ewly transcribed RNA represents a threat to genomic stability, say Xialu Li and James Manley (Columbia University, New York, NY). They find that, in metazoan cells, the threat is neutralized by a splicing factor that coats RNA as it it emerges from RNA polymerase. The danger arises because nascent RNA can anneal to the template DN...

PEDRO JOSÉ SEBASTIÃO This is the second number of CeFEMA newsletter, where we aim at reporting the most recent research activities of CeFEMA to a broad community, be it academic or entrepreneurial, which might be interested in materials science and condensed matter physics. In this number are presented a theoretical work of CeFEMA researchers on systems away from equilibrium and works related t...

Lane Kenworthy University of Arizona [email protected] administer the “treatment” to some observations. Then we compare the degree of change in both (or all, if there are more than two) groups. With observational data we don’t administer the treatment, but in other respects the process is similar. Especially useful is that this design takes constant countryspecific differences (“country ...

Materialistic values may be detrimental for people's well-being. However, we know little about why (i.e., explaining mechanisms) and when (i.e., boundary conditions) this is the case. Although low satisfaction of the psychological needs is said to play a key role in this process, a recent meta-analysis indicates that the explaining power of need satisfaction is limited and suggests that need fr...