Compact radio cores are not only common in radio galaxies and quasars but also in many nearby galaxies with low-active, supermassive black holes. One famous example is the Galactic Center source Sgr A*. Recent studies of proper motions and radial velocities of stars in the inner parsec of the Galaxy convincingly demonstrate the presence of a compact dark mass of 2:5 10 6 M in the nucleus of the...

Synopsis – France is one of the Western countries in which the development of NRTs – and specially in vitro fertilization (IVF) – is most important, spectacular, and rapid. But the interests of the NRT’s practitioners are far from being those of women wanting to have a child. Thus, the practitioners generally do not say how low the success rates are, even in the best centers. Instead of measuri...

Many artificial life researchers stress the interdisciplinary character of the field. Against such a backdrop, this paper reviews and discusses artificial life, as it is depicted in, and as it interfaces with, adjacent disciplines (in particular, philosophy, biology, and linguistics), and in the light of a specific historical example of interdisciplinary research (namely cybernetics) with which...

There have been great advances in charm physics at the B-factories in recent years, including the observation of D-D 0 mixing and the discovery of many new hidden-charm states, some of them presumably exotic in structure. This talk reviews some of the recent Belle results, with emphasis on the hidden-charm sector. Evidence for two new charged states is presented for the first time at this confe...

The United States is typically seen as an outlier in health spending when compared with other advanced nations. Recent improvements in health accounting in lower- and middle-income countries suggest some common features with the high and pluralistic spending in the United States. The author discusses recent developments and findings in health accounting outside the Organization for Economic Coo...

The finitely axiomatisable and decidable modal logic Diff of ‘elsewhere’ (or ‘difference operator’) is known to be quite similar to S5. Their validity problems have the same coNP complexity, and their Kripke frames have similar structures: equivalence relations for S5, and ‘almost’ equivalence relations, with the possibility of some irreflexive points, for Diff . However, their behaviour may di...

1 Methodological Preliminaries I would like to address the remarks made in Fodor and Lepore's article (henceforth , FL), \The Emptiness of the Lexicon: Critical Reeections on J. Puste-jovsky's The Generative Lexicon" (see this issue), regarding the research program outlined in Pustejovsky (1995). The title of my article is meant to broadly illustrate their underlying assumptions on semantics, w...

a 21-year old man presented with a 2-month history of a persistent ulcerated plaque on his right hand with no further lesion elsewhere. he was in contact with decorative aquarium in his hobbies associated with fish and water exposure. on physical examination there was a 2×2cm erythematous plaque with central ulceration on the thumb. there was no regional lymphadenopathy or similar lesion elsewh...