This paper consists of two parts. Its first part addresses an obvious and important lacuna in decision theory, our most basic and general theory of practical rationality. For all I can see, this lacuna is only insufficiently addressed in the literature presumably because it is not clear what to do about it and because the attempts to fill it lead onto very shaky grounds. Be this as it may, the ...

Blue Lacuna is a new long form interactive fiction comprising nearly 400,000 words of prose and natural language source code. The longest work yet produced in the Inform 7 language, it is also among the most substantial text-based story games in existence, an interactive novel with an average play time of fifteen to twenty hours. In development between 2006 and 2009, Blue Lacuna features severa...

Mechanical factors affect bone remodeling such that increased mechanical demand results in net bone formation, whereas decreased demand results in net bone resorption. Two proposed mechanical signals are stress-generated fluid flow forces acting on cells and bone matrix deformation itself. A prominent current theory is that bone cells are more responsive to fluid flow than to mechanical strain....