We consider inference for demographic models and parameters based upon postprocessing the output of an MCMC method that generates samples of genealogical trees (from the posterior distribution for a specific prior distribution of the genealogy). This approach has the advantage of taking account of the uncertainty in the inference for the tree when making inferences about the demographic model a...

After a critical examination of several attempts to characterize the Analytic tradition in philosophy, in the book here discussed Hanjo Glock goes on to contend thatAnalytic Philosophy is “a tradition that is held together both by ties of influence and by a family of partially overlapping features”. Here I question the need to appeal to a“family resemblance” component, arguing inste...

The utopian notion that there is a time and place where perfect happiness exists deeply rooted in Western thought alienates people from life the here now. Happiness perceived as purpose of life. Moreover, suffering are presented opposites contingent upon person’s actions. For thousands years, avoidance have been motives behind every action, conceptual basis for this still contemporary discourse...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. This chapter will examine the performance of Analogator in the three domains introduced in Chapter 1: the letter-part, geometric-spatial, and family tree domains. All three problem types will use the SRN architecture and the recurrent figure-grou...

Illustrating the rising trend across education systems, article examines socio-historical constitution of politics pupil self-evaluation in case Finnish compulsory assessment policy discourse. By studying as a ‘politics’, which, drawing on studies governmentality, engages governing and shaping educational practices, conduct teachers pupils but also forming pupils’ selves, challenges mainstream ...

The image that best expresses Darwin's thinking is the tree of life. However, Darwin's human evolutionary tree lacked almost everything because only the Neanderthals were known at the time and they were considered one extreme expression of our own species. Darwin believed that the root of the human tree was very deep and in Africa. It was not until 1962 that the root was shown to be much more r...

studbook information collected from 1988 to 2011 in jafarabad breeding station of moghani sheep, north-west of iran, related to 9,457 lambs were used to study the genetic diversity and to evaluate the effectiveness of an implemented rotational mating scheme using pedigree analysis. lambs born during 2009-2011 were considered as reference population. means inbreeding and average coancestry for t...

A special relational structure, called genealogical tree, is introduced; its social interpretation and geometrical realizations are discussed. The numbers Cn,k of all abstract genealogical trees with exactly n+1 nodes and k leaves is found by means of enumeration of code words. For each n, the Cn,k form a partition of the n-th Catalan numer Cn, that means Cn,1 + Cn,2 + · · ·+ Cn,n = Cn.