This paper presents a study of intertemporal propagation of distributional properties of phenotypes in general polygenic multi-gender inheritance models with sexand time-dependent heritability. It further analyzes the implications of these models under thick-tailedness of traits’ initial distributions. Our results suggest the optimality of a flexible one-sex/two-sex mating system. The switching...

n the late summer of 1997, we sat in a pub in Toronto, Canada, and began planning an ambitious project: to create a new entertainment medium. The idea was to mount a live performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and " broadcast " it over the Internet. The sets, props, and all the characters were to be modeled using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 2.0. A group of actor...

This paper presents a study of the intertemporal propagation of distributional properties of phenotypes in general polygenic multisex inheritance models with sexand timedependent heritabilities. It further analyzes the implications of these models under heavy-tailedness of traits’ initial distributions. Our results suggest the optimality of a flexible asexual/binarymating system. Switching betw...

This contribution presents the background, design and results of a study of users of three oral corpus platforms in Germany. Roughly 5.000 registered users of the Database for Spoken German (DGD), the GeWiss corpus and the corpora of the Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora (HZSK) were asked to participate in a user survey. This quantitative approach was complemented by qualitative interviews wi...

Societal polarization has given rise to opposing groups that fight each other as enemies and have very different ideas about what should be done is the case. This article investigates tools there are in philosophy of Martin Buber address this societal polarization. Buber’s notion community, relationship between means ends, his opposition political principle, an I-Thou dialogue conception truth ...

A 52-year-old woman presented with abdominal pain, dysphagia, and fatigue. She had gastric adenocarcinoma treated with lower esophago-gastroduodenectomy without splenectomy and chemoradiotherapy 6 years prior. CT angiography demonstrated a thrombus in the abdominal aorta with bilateral embolic kidney infarcts, but no tumor recurrence nor organomegaly. Laboratory findings included: hemoglobin 7 ...

human mind, and the manifestations and existence of the Deity, as revealed to him in the harmonies and beauties of the surrounding universe; but as he progresses in his investigations, and dives deeper and deeper into the secrets he seeks to penetrate, he finds that all his efforts and ingenuity recoil upon him?" thus far shalt thou go, and no farther," seems to resound upon his ear as from the...

Direct-sequence code-division mult ip le access (DS-CDMA) is a popular wireless technology. in DS-CDMA communications, all of the users’ signals overlap in t ime and frequency and cause mutual interference. The conventional DS-CDMA detector fo l lows a single-user detection strategy in which each user is detected separately w i thou t regard for the other users. A better strategy is mult i-user...

The report by &erva and Novk concerning 16 human fatalities associated with amoebic meningoencephalitis (1) should ring a warning bell among members of the (health professions. Amoebas are being cultivated with remarkafble frequency from human sources such as the upper respiratory tract and from serum during searches for viruses thou(ght to cause various respiratory symptoms, fevers, and hepati...