Contemporary contextual behavioral analyses take a somewhat different view of theorizing than is commonly held in most of psychology. In formulating a natural science of behavior, theorists such as J. R. Kantor and B. F. Skinner rejected certain varieties of theoretical constructs. This paper divides theoretical constructs into abstractive and hypothetical formulations. It further subdivides hy...

This paper explores a divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm based on the wellknown Obligatory Contour Principle in phonology. The purpose is twofold: to see if such an algorithm could be used for unsupervised classification of phonemes or graphemes in corpora, and to investigate whether this purported universal constraint really holds for several classes of phonological distinctive feature...

THIS PAPER CONCERNS SOME JURISPRUDENTIAL ISSUES RAISED BY THE abolition of the mandatory life sentence for murder, a step undertaken in New South Wales in 1982— Crimes (Homicide) Amendment Act 1982, Crimes (Life Sentences) Amendment Act 1989— and Victoria in 1986— Crimes (Amendment) Act 1986. It starts, however, with more general issues of sentencing philosophy. The first main section of this p...

The famous and oft-quoted maxim "Do no harm" should not be thought of as the first principle of medical ethics. The documents of the Hippocratic tradition and clinical experience indicate that a more appropriate and helpful first principle would be "Above all, be useful." The concept of usefulness implicitly rests at the very heart of medicine itself and the physician-patient relationship. The ...

Much of law and ethics at the end of life turns on whether there is a moral and legal distinction between killing and letting die. That distinction, in turn, relies on a difference between intention (what one purposely aims to bring about in his actions) and foresight (what one merely believes to be likely or even substantially certain). On this distinction rests the plausibility of the legal p...

Fermat’s principle applied to a flat metric in the plane yields the phase of a Bessel function in the periodic domain for a constant index of refraction. Gravitational forces cause the index of refraction to vary and lead to a modified phase of the Bessel function. A distinction is made between the forces that cause acceleration: the gravitational force affects the optical properties of the med...

Kaplan says that monsters violate Principle 2 of his theory. Principle 2 is that indexicals, pure and demonstrative alike, are directly referential. In providing this explanation of there being no monsters, Kaplan feels his theory has an advantage over double-indexing theories like Kamp’s or Segerberg’s (or Stalnaker’s), which either embrace monsters or avoid them only by ad hoc stipulation, in...

Wetlands provide essential functions to the ecosphere that range from water filtration to flood control. Current methods of evaluating the quality of wetlands include assessing vegetation, soil type, and period of inundation. With recent advances in molecular and bioinformatic techniques, measurement of the structure and composition of soil bacterial communities have become an alternative to tr...

We discuss \cascade mixing", where one particle mixture, say a B 0 , leads to another, say a K 0. A simple analysis is possible in the amplitude approach, which avoids \collapses of the wavefunction " and is explicitly covariant. Some novel possibilities , both of conceptual and perhaps of experimental interest, arise. For example, we explain how such processes can allow one to \tune", in princ...

This paper explores two aspects of word use and word meaning in terms of Sinclair's (1991, 1998) distinction between the open-choice principle (or terminological tendency) and the idiom principle (or phraseological tendency). Technical terms such as strobilation are rare, highly domain-specific, and of little phraseological interest, although the texts in which such word occur do tend to contai...