The motor-program concept, emphasizing how actions are represented in the brain, helped bring the study of motor control into the realm of cognitive psychology. However, interest in representational issues was in limbo for much of the past 30 years, during which time the focus was on biomechanical and abstract accounts of the constraints underlying coordinated movement. We review recent behavio...

In his classic study of the collective representation of death, Robert Hertz suggested that death is best understood as a rite of passage in which the deceased makes a transition from the visible “here and now” to an invisible hereafter.1 Death is thus the ultimate experience of passage; it is a threshold through which one passes beyond the house of life to some unknown place. As the terminatio...

The paradigm of Laplacean determinism combines three regulative principles: determinism, predictability, and the explanatory adequacy of universal laws together with purely local conditions. Historically, it applied to celestial mechanics, but it has been expanded into an ideal for scientific theories whose cogency is often not questioned. Laplace's demon is an idealization of mechanistic scien...

Two long-term trends characterized the response to influx of asylum seekers in rural Sweden 2015. First, current integration policies with an increasing focus on individual migrant, especially relation education, employment and housing, provided framework for response. Second, shift governance from state control collaborative arrangements nonstate actors, enabled unprecedented involvement civil...

PURPOSE To analyze conjunctival cytological features 1 month after pterygium excision using limbo-conjunctival autograft (LCA) with and without intraoperative mitomycin C and to assess tissue short-term evolution in both situations. METHODS Fifty-nine primary nasal pterygia from 59 patients were excised with LCA. Twenty-nine were treated with intraoperative mitomycin C 0.02% (MMC+) and 30 wer...

This paper tells a story of shifting normativities, from tradition to modernity and back, regarding the recognition legal parenthood in non-traditional families created through crossborder surrogacy. The cross-border nature surrogacy is often forced as most domestic frameworks Europe still restrict creation assisted reproductive technologies. Once back home, these struggle have birth certificat...