People often find it hard to disagree with others, but how this disposition varies across individuals or how it is influenced by social factors like other people's level of expertise remains little understood. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we found that activity across a network of brain areas [comprising posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC), anterior insula (AI), inferi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the perception of facilitators and students on the implementation of PBL, based on their experience. METHOD A questionnaire based survey was conducted on 186 first and second year students and 25 faculty members. RESULT The responses of faculty members and students were analyzed using Chi-square and a P-value < 0.05 was considered significant. Comparison between facult...

1Department of Biology and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China 2College of Chinese Medicine Materials, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China 3Eco-friendly New Materials Research Group, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 305-343, Korea 4Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon National University, Sun...

Recently, the first two authors characterized in Di Nola and Dvurečenskij (2009) [1] subdirectly irreducible state-morphism MV-algebras. Unfortunately, the main theorem (Theorem 5.4(ii)) has a gap in the proof of Claim 10, as the example below shows. We now present a correct characterization and its correct proof. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

This article explores why neoliberals associated with the Mont Pelerin Society disagreed on legitimacy of a guaranteed income in 1960s and 1970s United States. Participants this debate are categorized along spectrum between “libertarians” like Milton Friedman George Stigler, who favoured minimum-income plan, “paternalists” Henry Hazlitt, opposed one any form. While these figures were united the...