My job here is to comment on Eldar Shafir’s paper, “Context, conflict, weights, and identities: Some psychological aspects of decision making”. Being an anthropologist interested in the evolution of human behavior, I have little to add to the substance. As a result, any comments I might make be things like, “great paper,” “learned a lot”, etc. I don’t think this kind of commentary would be good...

Skinner and colleagues (Research Article, 23 January 2015, p. 395), based on metacarpal trabecular bone structure, argue that Australopithecus africanus employed human-like dexterity for stone tool making and use 3 million years ago. However, their evolutionary and biological assumptions are misinformed, failing to refute the previously existing hypothesis that human-like manipulation preceded ...

l’homme est toujours sous le regard des 'autres', c’est sa condition permanente au cours de  son existence. pour montrer cette situation humaine, sartre, philosophe existentialiste et écrivain français le plus connu du xxe siècle, a choisit le théâtre duquel nous avons choisi deux pièces: huis clos et les mouches. dans ces pièces, chaque personnage tente de juger 'l’autre' en le comparant à lui...

Model choice and validation have a central role in data analysis, including predictive modeling. While standard diagnostics can help identify model inadequacies, it is natural to use predictive accuracy as the decisive criterion in the final choice of predictive model. A key point is that any assessment of predictive accuracy, theoretical or empirical, inevitably assumes a “data mechanism”, i.e...

Reply to Anonymous Referee #1 Let me start by thanking the referee for his/her constructive comment and suggestion that have led to clear improvments in the manuscript. Below, please find a reply to the comment (reproduced in part in italics). Specific comments My lone concern comes in the attribution of the deviations from normal in radar scan data above the wind turbines to anomalous propagat...

In this comment the survey by Feuerstein is taken as a point of departure to discuss some of the key challenges facing collusion theory in its application to competition and trade policy. The main issue is one of robustness. It is discussed that the popular use of equilibria with Nash reversion leads to highly non-robust results and contrasts this with a recent approach aimed at detecting robus...

Comment to: Rey S, Huntingford FA, Boltanã S, Vargas R, Knowles TG, Mackenzie S. 2015 Fish can show emotional fever: stress-induced hyperthermia in zebrafish. Proc. R. Soc. B 282, 20152266. & 2017 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the origi...

Researches have shown that most effort of today’s software development is maintenance and evolution. Developers often use integrated development environments, debuggers, and tools for code search, testing, and program understanding to reduce the tedious tasks. One way to make software development more efficient is to make the program more readable. There have been many approaches proposed and d...