The ontology of (merely) intentional objects is a can of worms. If we can avoid ontological commitment to such entities, we should. In this paper, I offer a strategy for accomplishing that. This is to reject the traditional act-object account of intentionality in favor of an adverbial account. According to adverbialism about intentionality, having a dragon thought is not a matter of bearing the...

Tanya Leise ([email protected]) received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is captivated by applied mathematics in many contexts, from accelerating cracks to biological clocks. Of particular interest to her recently has been the mathematics of mechanical devices such as astrolabes and planimeters, which are also great fun to collect. When not doing math, she enjoys cycling and sewing stu...

In birds and oviparous reptiles, hatching is often a lengthy and exhausting process, which commences with pipping followed by lung clearance and pulmonary ventilation. We examined the composition of pulmonary surfactant in the developing lungs of the chicken, Gallus gallus, and of the bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps. Lung tissue was collected from chicken embryos at days 14, 16, 18 (prepipped)...

Lalcly it seems ihc Danes arc making a habit o f playing their football contests down to the very Inst minute. Two weeks ago the Danes were shocked when a last gasp klckoff return by Southern Connecticut put a " o n e " in their loss column. This past Saturday, the Danes remained true to their recent form. Albany held its breath staving o f f a lute Cortland RedDragon comeback dr ive in the t r...

A new indicator, a real valued s-index, is suggested to characterize a quality and impact of the scientific research output. It is expected to be at least as useful as the notorious h-index, at the same time avoiding some its obvious drawbacks. Sound, sound your trumpets and beat your drums! Here it is, an impossible thing performed: a single integer number characterizes both productivity and q...

Telomeres in human fibroblasts shorten progressively during in vitro culturing and trigger replicative senescence. Furthermore, shortened telomeres can be used as biomarkers of disease. These observations have led to the suggestion that telomere dynamics may also be associated with viability and selection for life history variation in non-human taxa. Model systems to examine this suggestion wou...