Robin Nunn has argued that we should stop using the terms ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’. I argue in support of Nunn’s position by considering the logic of why we perform placebo comparisons. Like all comparisons, placebo comparison is just a case of comparing one thing with another, but it is a mistake, I argue, to think of placebo comparison as a case where something is compared to ‘a placebo...

1. The telescope conjecture and Bousfield localization 4 1.1. Telescopes 4 1.2. Bousfield localization and Bousfield classes 6 1.3. The telescope conjecture 8 1.4. Some other open questions 9 2. Some variants of the Adams spectral sequence 10 2.1. The classical Adams spectral sequence 11 2.2. The Adams-Novikov spectral sequence 12 2.3. The localized Adams spectral sequence 15 2.4. The Thomified...

Background: Variability in speech performance is a major concern for children with cochlear implants (CIs). Spectral resolution is an important acoustic component in speech perception. Considerable variability and limitations of spectral resolution in children with CIs may lead to individual differences in speech performance. The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between auditory ...

K. T. Kaczmarek1,∗, P. M. Ledingham, B. Brecht, S. E. Thomas, G. S. Thekkadath, O. Lazo-Arjona, J. H. D. Munns, E. Poem, A. Feizpour, D. J. Saunders, J. Nunn, I. A. Walmsley1∗ Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK. QOLS, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, UK. University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada. Departme...

The aim of this paper is to gain explicit information about the multiplicative structure of l∗l, where l is the connective Adams summand. Our approach differs from Kane’s or Lellmann’s because our main technical tool is the MU -based Künneth spectral sequence. We prove that the algebra structure on l∗l is inherited from the multiplication on a Koszul resolution of l∗BP . Introduction Our goal i...

The present paper will form part of the author’s PhD thesis, which will concern in part the practical computation of the motivic cohomology and the equivariant motivic cohomology of homogeneous varieties, such as Stiefel manifolds, Grassmanians, and spaces of matrices with prescribed rank conditions. Nothing proved here is particularly surprising, but it seems to the author that the spectral se...

How do experienced users extract information from a complex visualization? We examine this question by presenting experienced weather forecasters with visualizations that did not show the needed information explicitly and examining their eye movements. We replicated Carpenter & Shah (1998) when the information was explicitly available on the visualization. However, when the information was not ...

The importance of socioeconomic position, measured at multiple levels (e.g., individual, household, area) and across the life course, for studying health disparities is now well recognized (1–7). Our multilevel study (8) reported that individual-based socioeconomic measures (IBSMs) and area-based socioeconomic measures (ABSMs) together capture birth weight inequalities that otherwise would have...

We construct a spectral sequence that computes the generalized homology E∗( Q Xα) of a product of spectra. The E2-term of this spectral sequence consists of the right derived functors of product in the category of E∗E-comodules, and the spectral sequence always converges when E is the Johnson-Wilson theory E(n) and the Xα are Ln-local. We are able to prove some results about the E2-term of this...