Eleven years ago, I proposed a simple model for the evolution of offspring size, pointing out a general correlation between parental care and relatively large offspring size consistent with that model (Shine 1978). My basic premise came from Williams (1966): natural selection should adjust the life history such that organisms spend little time in life-history stages characterized by high mortal...

In this communique, we present a new family of Nussbaum functions expressed by Mittag–Leffler functions under certain conditions. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

We develop a nonlinear Fredholm alternative theory involving k-ball and k-set perturbations of general homeomorphisms as well as of homeomorphisms that are nonlinear Fredholm maps of index zero. Various generalized first Fredholm theorems are given and finite solvability of general (odd) Fredholm maps of index zero is also studied. We apply these results to the unique and finite solvability of ...

Beginning with an exemplary case study, this paper diagnoses and analyses some important strategies of evasion and factors of hindrance that are met in the teaching of medical ethics to undergraduate medical students. Some of these inhibitions are inherent to ethical theories; others are connected with the nature of medicine or cultural trends. It is argued that in order to avoid an attitude of...

657602 Nisbett, R. E. (2009). Intelligence and how to get it: Why schools and cultures count. New York, NY: Norton. Nussbaum, A. D., Logel, C., & Steele, C. M. (2012). The conflicting motives to disprove and avoid confirming negative stereotypes. Manuscript in preparation. Nussbaum, A. D., & Steele, C. M. (2007). Persistence in the face of adversity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 4...

657602 Nisbett, R. E. (2009). Intelligence and how to get it: Why schools and cultures count. New York, NY: Norton. Nussbaum, A. D., Logel, C., & Steele, C. M. (2012). The conflicting motives to disprove and avoid confirming negative stereotypes. Manuscript in preparation. Nussbaum, A. D., & Steele, C. M. (2007). Persistence in the face of adversity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 4...

Beginning with an exemplary case study, this paper diagnoses and analyses some important strategies of evasion and factors of hindrance that are met in the teaching of medical ethics to undergraduate medical students. Some of these inhibitions are inherent to ethical theories; others are connected with the nature of medicine or cultural trends. It is argued that in order to avoid an attitude of...