Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) is a nematode of the Capillariidae family that infects rodents and other mammals. In Brazil, human spurious infections of C. hepaticum have been detected in indigenous or rural communities from the Amazon Basin, but not in the southern states of the country. Here, we report the highest occurrence (13.5% of 37 residents) of C. hepaticum human spuriou...

Booth-LaForce and Roisman's monograph on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) featured a taxometric analysis to determine whether variation along two components, dismissing and preoccupied states of mind, was categorical or dimensional. Empirically evaluating the latent structure of these constructs helps to avoid spurious categories or dimensions. This benefits researchers working with measure...

We propose a robust probabilistic pitch (f0) estimator in the presence of interference and low SNR conditions, without the computational requirements of optimal time-domain methods. Our analysis is driven by sinusoidal peaks extracted by a windowed STFT. Given f0 and a reference amplitude (A0), peak frequency/amplitude observations are modeled probabilistically in order to be robust to undetect...

1550-7998=20 In a recent article, W.-S. Hou and G.-G. Wong [Phys. Rev. D 67, 034 003 (2003)] have investigated the spectrum of two-gluon glueballs below 3 GeV in a potential model with a dynamical gluon mass. We point out that, among the 18 states calculated by the authors, only three are physical. The other states either are spurious or possess a finite mass only due to an arbitrary restrictio...

Using the Monte Carlo method, we study a two-dimensional model with infinitely many absorbing states. Our estimation of the critical exponent beta is approximately equal to 0.273(5) suggests that the model belongs to the (1+1) rather than to (2+1) directed-percolation universality class. We also show that for a large class of absorbing states the dynamic Monte Carlo method leads to spurious dyn...

This article presents and discusses a prima facie counterexample to modus ponens. To appropriately theorize the case, I argue for conceptualizing notions of logical consequence commitment in “normative” terms, so that does not attach premises spurious dominance argument—and, more generally, unreasonable decision states, or syntactically specified classes thereof. also suggest there is motivatio...