Economic theory has evolved without paying proper attention to behavioral approaches, especially to social, economic, and cognitive psychology. This has recently changed by including behavioral economics courses in many doctoral study programs. Although this new development is most welcome, the typical topics of the behavioral economics courses are not truly behavioral. More specifically, we qu...

-The acid-catalyzed reaction between methanol and isobutene to give methyl-t-butyl ether may be carried out using a cation-exchanged smectite as the catalyst. In 1,4-dioxan solvent at 60~ smectites exchanged with A13+, Fe 3+, or C# + give yields of -60% after 4 hr, whereas smectites exchanged with Cu 2+, Pb 2+, Ni 2+, Co 2+, Ca 2+, and Na + give less than -8% yield. The reaction is efficient on...

Modulation of neural responses is frequently observed in the superior colliculus (SC), a retinorecipient midbrain structure that controls orienting and the localization of attention. Although behavioral contingencies that influence SC responses are well documented, the neural pathways and molecular mechanisms responsible for this modulation are not completely understood. Here, we illustrate a d...

Previous results in the laboratory of the authors showed that Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain 905, isolated during 'cachaça' production, was able to colonize and survive in the gastrointestinal tract of germ-free and conventional mice, and to protect these animals against oral challenge with Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium or Clostridium difficile. In the present work, the effects of S...

The paper discusses the sense in which the changes undergone by normative economics in the 20 century can be said to be progressive. A simple criterion is proposed to decide whether a sequence of normative theories is progressive. This criterion is put to use on the historical transition from the new welfare economics to social choice theory. The paper reconstructs this classic case, and eventu...

This paper tackles the problem of the demarcation of value judgments in economic expertise. Is it possible to disentangle values from facts, or neutral scientific assertions from value-laden judgments, in the context of economic expertise? If not, why not? And if it is, under what conditions? First, drawing on concepts from analytic philosophy, the paper highlights the interdependencies between...

This paper is the second of two articles in real harmonic analysis. In the first paper [A14], we established asymptotic formulas for some natural distributions on a real group. In this paper we shall establish important relationships among the distributions as the group varies. The group is the set of real points of a connected reductive group G over R. The distributions are weighted orbital in...

A13 Interactions of peripheral and central μ opioid systems during emotional stress Valentina Bashkatova, Helmut Prast, Alexei Umriukhin and Sergey Sudakov Department of Reinforcement Physiology, P.K. Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology RAMS, 125315 Moscow, Russia Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Department of Addictive Phys...