In this paper I offer a defence of a Russellian analysis of the referential uses of incomplete (mis) descriptions, in a contextual setting. With regard to descriptions (introduction), I will support the former against the latter. In 1. I explain what I mean by “essentially” incomplete descriptions: incomplete descriptions are context dependent descriptions. In 2. I examine one of the best versi...

Although sensory perception and neurobiology are traditionally investigated one modality at a time, real world behaviour and perception are driven by the integration of information from multiple sensory sources. Mounting evidence suggests that the neural underpinnings of multisensory integration extend into early sensory processing. This article examines the notion that neocortical operations a...

background education is an integral part of the treatment in diabetes mellitus. attendance at long courses might not be convenient for many patients. objectives the current study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of self-management, short course instruction on glycemic control in adults with diabetes mellitus. patients and methods a total of 60 patients with diabetes mellitus were ran...

A decrease of protein, RNAs, and starch, and an increase of sugar were observed in 3-day water-stressed red osier dogwood plants (Cornus stolonifera Michx.) when the frost hardiness increased from -3 to -6 C. As the frost hardiness increased to -11 C after 7 days of treatment, the starch continuously decreased, however, the proteins and RNAs increased with a continuous increase of sugar. Furthe...

It is well known that the dominant eigenvalue of a real essentially nonnegative matrix is a convex function of its diagonal entries. This convexity is of practical importance in population biology, graph theory, demography, analytic hierarchy process, and so on. In this paper, the concept of essentially nonnegativity is extended frommatrices to higher-order tensors, and the convexity and log co...

It has been argued that Open Source Software (OSS) development differs from the agile software development mode in philosophical, economical, and team structural aspects. This paper investigates the OSS development characteristics from four perspectives: process, roles and responsibilities, practices, and scope of use. The study shows that while from a legal perspective the OSS development para...

The regular representation of an essentially finite 2-group G in the 2-category 2Vectk of (Kapranov and Voevodsky) 2-vector spaces is defined and cohomology invariants classifying it computed. It is next shown that all hom-categories in Rep 2Vectk pGq are 2-vector spaces under quite standard assumptions on the field k, and a formula giving the corresponding “intertwining numbers” is obtained wh...

It is shown that if X is an Inoue surface of type SM then the irreducible components of the Douady space of Xn are compact, for all n ≥ 0. This gives an example, asked for in [15], of an essentially saturated compact complex manifold (in the sense of model theory) that is not of Kähler-type. Among the known compact complex surfaces without curves, these are the only examples.