Philosophers and • "pseudognosticians" (the artificial intelligentsial) are coming more and more to recognize that they share common ground and that each can learn from the other. This has been generally recognized for many years as far as symbolic logic is concerned, but less so in relation to the foundations of probability. In this essay I hope to convince the pseudognostician that the philos...

Despite the preventative and therapeutic effects of regular exercise, exhaustive exercise may be harmful to health. The present study aimed to determine the protective effect of endurance training and cinnamon bark extract (CBE) supplementation on oxidative responses induced by an exhaustive exercise schedule in rats. The rats were randomly divided into the following five groups of 6; control s...

Background and Objectives: Apoptosis plays a key role in pathogenesis of various cardiovascular diseases due to loss of terminally differentiated cardiac myocytes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate effects of combined dietary restriction and aerobic training on indices of myocardial apoptosis in male rats. Materials and Methods: In this study, 32 three-month-old male rats wer...

A strong correlated equilibrium is a strategy pro le that is immune to joint deviations. Di erent notions of strong correlated equilibria were de ned in the literature. One major di erence among those de nitions is the stage in which coalitions can plan a joint deviation: before (ex-ante) or after (ex-post) the deviating players receive their part of the correlated pro le. In this paper we prov...

Background: The rate of nosocomial infection appears to depend on whether it is calculated using the Center for Disease Control (CDC) or carrier state criteria. The objective of this study was to differentiate between primary endogenous (PE), secondary endogenous (SE) and exogenous (EX) infections, and to compare this classification with CDC criteria for nosocomial infections. Methods: ...

The number of languages spoken on the planet has oscillated up and down throughout the history of mankind. 1 Different social factors operate in opposite ways, some resulting in the decrease of language diversity, others favouring the emergence of new languages. Thus, languages fade away and disappear when their speakers undergo some pressure towards abandoning their heritage language and repla...