SUMMARY: GRW models of the physical world are severely criticized in the literature for involving wave function 'tails', the allegation being that the latter create fatal interpretive problems and even compromise standard arithmetic. I find such objections both unfair and misguided. But not all is well with the GRW approach. The complaint I articulate in this paper does not have to do with tail...

Introduction: Organ transplant recipients might be more likely to develop COVID-19, as they receive long-term immunosuppressives and have comorbidities. Case Presentation: Herein, we reported the case of a 32-year-old man with unilateral lung transplantation due unclassifiable fibrosis on pathologic evaluation who presented cough, fever, headache. After RT-PCR test chest CT scan, COVID-19 in pr...

objective: in order to find how rating the whoqol-bref and dass scales are combined to produce an overall measure of quality of life and satisfaction with health rating, a qol-dass model was designed; and the strength of this hypothesized model was examined using the structural equation modeling. method: participants included a sample of 103 voluntary males who were divided into two groups of u...

This article is based on the second overview lecture given at the Workshop. The principal aim of these survey lectures was to provide a bird’s eye view of the theory of motives vis-a-vis some of the longer courses and special lectures that were to follow. Needless to say, such a sweeping overview involves compressing a vast area, thereby necessitating omission of many details. In this article, ...

The most important financial source for behavioral economics is the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF). The most prominent behavioral economists among the RSF’s twentysix member Behavioral Economics Roundtable (BER) are Kahneman, Tversky, Thaler, Camerer, Loewenstein, Rabin, and Laibson. The theoretical core of behavioral economics made up of the work of these seven researchers is positioned in oppo...

I argue that if we distinguish between ontological realism and semantic realism, then we no longer have to choose between platonism and formalism. If we take category theory as the language of mathematics, then a linguistic analysis of the content and structure of what we say in and about mathematical theories allows us to justify the inclusion of mathematical concepts and theories as legitimat...