It is generally assumed that birds build nests according to a genetic 'template', little influenced by learning or memory. One way to confirm the role of genetics in nest building is to assess the repeatability of nest morphology with repeated nest attempts. Solitary weaver birds, which build multiple nests in a single breeding season, are a useful group with which to do this. Here we show that...

UNLABELLED Several reports suggest that clinically used concentrations of inhaled anesthetics can increase conductance through noninactivating potassium channels and that the resulting hyperpolarization might decrease excitability, thereby leading to the anesthetic state. We speculated that animals deficient in such potassium channels might be resistant to the effects of anesthetics. Thus, in t...

The objective of this paper is to present multi-criteria group decision making in intuitionistic fuzzy environment based on grey relational analysis for weaver selection in Khadi institution. Weaver selection is a group decision making process involving qualitative and quantitative criteria. Intuitionistic trapezoidal fuzzy weighted arithmetic average operator and intuitionistic trapezoidal fuz...

To the editor: I read the interesting study by Weaver et al1 and the accompanying editorial by Wilcox and Richards2 on noninvasive carbon monoxide (CO) detection in the February 2013 issue of RESPIRATORY CARE. I agree wholeheartedly with those authors that CO poisoning is an important public health concern, confounded by nonspecific symptoms that challenge diagnosticians. My experience with non...

The early history of applying electronic computers to the task of translating natural languages is chronicled, from the first suggestions by Warren Weaver in March 1947 to the first demonstration of a working, if limited, program in January 1954.

Most report of Weaver syndrome have been sporadic cases and the genetic basis of the syndrome is uncertain. This report of an affected father and daughter provides evidence for autosomal dominant inheritance.

tary equational logics are generalized and formulated as properties of infinitary equational logics and it is shown that these properties are coextensive. The central construction of the paper is derived from a model theoretic proof of the consequence version of the compactness theorem: if an equation is a consequence of a set of equations S, then it is a consequence of some finite subset of S....

E ach year in the United States alone, more than 200,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed. Most women fi nd their tumors on their own, by feeling a lump in their breast. Tumors can be detected in this way because they are stiffer than normal tissue, explains Valerie Weaver, Director of UCSF's Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration. This stiffness is both a consequence and a cause...

ion Description Run(function, inputs) Apply inputs to function. Map(function, inputs) For each input in inputs, apply function. MapReduce(mapper, reducer, inputs) For each input in inputs apply mapper, sort intermediate outputs, and then apply reducer. AllPairs(function, inputs_a, inputs_b) Apply function to all combinations of inputs_a and inputs_b. Wavefront(function, matrix) Compute recurren...