Those interested in the relationship between environment structure and behavior—the topic of this special issue of Adaptive Behavior —will find much of value in Peter Godfrey-Smith's new book, Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (hereafter CFMN; all page citations are to CFMN unless otherwise indicated). The writing is clear and concise, aptly balancing precision and breadth, and a ho...

The plug-in architecture of Protégé [3] is extremely successful in that it allows developers to custom-tailor Protégé for new purposes and to extend significantly the functionality the Protégé environment. Until now, developers have mainly extended Protégé by adding new tab plug-ins. For example, there are tab extensions that support visualization, validation, and reasoning, as well as domain-s...

This paper presents a detailed account of prepositional mismatch between our handcrafted verb lexicon and a semantically annotated corpus. The analysis of these mismatches allows us to re ne the lexicon and to create a more robust resource capable of better semantic predictions based on the verb-preposition relations.

Kathryn Calame C. Thomas Caskey Dennis W. Choi John M. Coffin Paul J. Crutzen Robert Desimone Bruce F. Eldridge Paul T. Englund Richard G. Fairbanks Douglas T. Fearon Harry A. Fozzard Klaus Friedrich Theodore H. Geballe John C. Gerhart Roger 1. M. Glass Stephen P. Goff Peter N. Goodfellow Corey S. Goodman Ira Herskowitz Eric F. Johnson Stephen M. Kosslyn Michael LaBarbera Nicole Le Douarin Char...

Systemic pesticides, including the widely used neonicotinoids, have been linked to colony losses in honeybees and declines in other pollinator species. More recently, evidence has accumulated suggesting that their widespread, often prophylactic use is harming important parts of soil and water ecosystems, putting biodiversity and ecosystem services at risk. Michael Gross reports. Systemic pestic...

RDF may be considered as an application of XML intended to interoperably exchange semantics between Web applications. In its current form, this objective may be hard to reach. Even if the semantical gems hidden in the RDF/RDFS specification are precisely captured, as, for example, in the axiomatic formalizations currently available, the useabilty of RDF’s concepts and constraints is limited: RD...

discovery of potential anti-aging treatment capable of extending both our healthy aging and perhaps our longevity resuscitated an old human dream. It also brought about inordinate interest in these studies. While calorie restriction (CR) is still the best known intervention to increase life span, anti-aging molecules could mimic this effect without reducing nutrient intake. Such compounds, like...