The idea of a seamless, scaleless data base of digital spatial data for use in auto mated cartography or geographic information systems has intrigued researchers for a number of years. Yet reviewing the plans of mapping agencies in the United States and Europe for their digital data bases in the 1990's shows partitioning by scale, space, and time. Why is this so? Is a seamless, scaleless data b...

Inspired by the success of generative linguistics and transformational grammar, proponents of the linguistic analogy (LA) in moral psychology hypothesize that careful attention to folk-moral judgments is likely to reveal a small set of implicit rules and structures responsible for the ubiquitous and apparently unbounded capacity for making moral judgments. As a theoretical hypothesis, LA thus r...

In this paper we review recent findings on the disinhibition of dietary restraint Disinhibition induced by preloading depends more upon the perception that the diet has been broken than on actual calorie content of the preload. Disinhibition can also result from emotional distress, with ego-threats more likely than physical fear to disinhibit eating. Low self-esteem dieters are more likely to b...

The Mystery of Pain, a little book which sets forth the Panglossian thesis that "all that which we feel as painful is really giving-something that our fellows are better for, even though we cannot trace it." It gives some idea of the tum of the son CQaries Hinton's mind to lea:rn that he wrote a piece, "The Persian King," in which he attempted to use higher dimensions and infinite series to obt...

WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 as a of concern on 26 November 2021 and since then there have been many speculations regarding its origin control measures. It is not yet clear if omicron more transmissible compared to other variants.