This paper examines the points of disagreement between Neo-Darwinian and recent Neo-Aristotelian discussions of the status of purposive language in biology. I discuss recent Neo-Darwinian "evolutionary" treatments and distinguish three ways to deal with the philosophical status of teleological language of purpose: teleological error theory, methodological teleology, and Darwinian teleological r...

A small cluster of dioecious species in the plant genus Silene has evolved chromosomal sex determination and sex chromosomes relatively recently, within the last 10 million years (MY). Five dioecious Silene species (section Elisanthe) are very closely related (1-2 MY of divergence) and it was previously thought that all five have similar sex chromosomes. Here we demonstrate that in one of these...

Interest in the role of personality traits in predicting academic performance outcomes has steadily increased over the last several decades, enough to produce a number of meta-analyses that summarize this research (e.g., Poropat, 2009; Richardson, Abraham, & Bond, 2012). These previous meta-analyses combine a variety of alternative personality measures under the assumption that they all reflect...

An evolving weighted neuro-neo-fuzzy-ANARX model and its learning procedures are introduced in the article. This system is basically used for time series forecasting. It’s based on neo-fuzzy elements. This system may be considered as a pool of elements that process data in a parallel manner. The proposed evolving system may provide online processing data streams. Index Terms — Computational Int...

This paper stands for an analytical approach modelling and exploring an evolutionary-space oriented business-domains. The space that we consider is intended to be complex emerging a set of heterogeneous evolutionary business-agents (e.g. Factories, Restaurants, etc.); it accordingly stimulates an analytical multi-layered structure headed for a hyper-space navigational framework. Agents have mul...

XX. yüzyılın sonlarında Batı’da ve Sibirya’da, Amerika’da Afrika’da çeşitli düzeylerde farklı versiyonlarda temsil edilen uluslararası Neo-şamanlık adı ile bilinen bir fenomen ortaya çıktı ancak şamanlık geleneği olmayan halklarda çıkan bu gerçeği, şaman geleneğinden tam kopmamış Sibirya Türklerinin modern şamanlığından boyut sergiliyor. Onları birleştiren tek nokta yeni şamanların eğitimli, mi...

in the centeral iranian volcanic belt (civb), north-west of shahre-babak, in area of javazm, dehaj and khabr, about 20 plutonic porphyritic tonalitic to granodioritic masses (1-50 km2) are intruded into a varity of rock sequences from eocene to early miocene in age. tonalitic and granodioritic rocks are some part of dehaj-sardoieh belt and having early miocene age. the civb contains intrusive a...

In recent years, neo-liberal and neo-Weberian scholars have waged fierce debates over whether or not the capacity of the nation-states to manage economic activity has been weakened by globalization. While siding with the neo-Weberians in their assertion that states retain substantial powers, this paper argues that both neo-liberals and neo-Weberians share a problematic assumption that states ar...

This study presents new analyses of NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) responses collected from a large British sample in a high-stakes setting. The authors show the appropriateness of the five-factor model underpinning these responses in a variety of new ways. Using the recently developed exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) technique, the authors show that model fits impr...

OBJECTIVE To explore the value of transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) for tumor node metastasis (TNM) restaging for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (neo-CRT). METHODS One hundred and forty-nine patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (cT3-4 or cN+) who underwent TRUS after neo-CRT were retrospectively reviewed. TRUS restaging was compared w...