We describe a communication game, and a conjecture about this game, whose proof would imply the well-known Sensitivity Conjecture asserting a polynomial relation between sensitivity and block sensitivity for Boolean functions. The author defined this game and observed the connection in Dec. 2013 Jan. 2014. The game and connection were independently discovered by Gilmer, Koucký, and Saks, who al...

s as of 7.28.10 #1 Quality of Life After Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Autotransplant for Management of Chronic Pancreatitis in Children Melena D. Bellin, Martin L. Freeman, Sarah J. Schwarzenberg, David M. Radosevich, Ty B. Dunn, Gregory J. Beilman, David E.R. Sutherland Corresponding Author: Melena Bellin, MD, [email protected]; phone 612-625-4686; fax 612-626-5262 Background: Children with p...

Sociological literature focusing on athletic subcultures is abundant; however, little exists that specifically addresses the deviant conduct inherent within these enclaves. Save a few select studies, this is especially true of male collegiate rugby in the United States. Collegiate rugby in the United States is considered by many to be an emerging sport; as such, little is known about the devian...

Ancestral state estimation (ASE), or ancestral reconstruction, is the process of estimating evolutionary history a character on phylogeny (Cunningham et al., 1998; Donoghue, 1989; Swofford & Maddison, 1987). This has been used to reveal evolution key innovations across tree life, such as orb web in spiders (Kallal 2020) and reproductive mode squamates (Pyron Burbrink, 2014), explore early major...

Degrader technologies, which enable the chemical knockdown of disease-causing proteins, are promising for drug discovery. After two decades research, degraders using ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) currently in clinical trials. However, UPS substrates mainly limited to soluble proteins. Autophagy-targeting chimeras and autophagosome-tethering compounds that use autophagy, has functions comple...

Before they met in 1917, Virginia Woolf envisioned a peculiar setting for her first encounter with Katherine Mansfield, the promising young writer who had ‘dogged [her] steps three years’. Intriguingly, imagined she might glimpse not drawing-room of mutual friend or at literary soirée, but ‘on rock sea’ – there, ‘I shall accost her’.1 pictures Mansfield an attitude reminiscent Frederic Leighton...

Competition obscures the realities and significance of play, in particular, the bodily play originating in infancy and typical of young children. A multidisciplinary perspective on child’s play elucidates the nature of child’s play and validates the distinction between competition and play. The article begins with a consideration of ethological research on play in young human and nonhuman anima...