Tennis champion Maria Sharapova has a habit of grunting when she plays on the court. Assume that also hitting ball in certain way situation. The on-court might be bad, but can situation classified as intelligent? fundamental questions here are follows: What is habit? relation between and skill? Is there such thing intelligent In this paper I expound nature by developing defending Rylean concept...

Recent contributions by Collins, Evans, Jasanoff and Wynne to the discussion of how science and technology studies (STS) might contribute to understanding ‘subpolitics’ – the complex, expert knowledge-intensive and distributed political issues technological societies have to deal with – and involvement of STS scholars in experiments to extend public participation in decision-making about scienc...

The feedback-related negativity (FRN) is an event-related brain potential component that is elicited by feedback stimuli indicating unfavorable outcomes. Until recently, the FRN has been studied primarily using experimental paradigms in which outcomes appeared to be contingent upon the participants' behavior. The present study further addressed the question whether an FRN can be elicited by out...

PURPOSE This article challenges popular conceptions of the nature of ethnicity and religiousness in the gerontological literature. Using the example of older Jewish Americans, the authors argue for more nuanced definitions and usage of terms such as "religion" and "ethnicity" in order to begin to understand the complex interweaving of these two dimensions in the lives of older persons. DESIGN...

The seasonality of twinning in the Spanish populations has not been studied until now. Differences between seasonal distribution of the twin conceptions and those of the single births have been observed in other populations. The aim of this work is to explore the frequency of twinning in a rural population from Catalonia during the nineteenth century, as well as the seasonality patterns charact...