During the thirteenth century, the Jews in southern France (called “Provence” in Hebrew sources) experienced a cultural revolution. Following the arrival of Maimonides’ writings and the translation of his Guide of the Perplexed into Hebrew, a very distinctive tradition of philosophy and exegesis was developed. Basic works of Graeco-Arabic and Arabic philosophy were translated into Hebrew, in re...

This article serves as a response to the 13 commentaries on the target article, which introduced the suffocation model of marriage in America. This reply has four main sections. First, it presents an elaborated version of the suffocation model that was inspired by the commentaries. Second, it addresses three areas of significant disagreement that emerged as we digested the commentaries. Third, ...

Our article "NFL Player Health Care: Addressing Club Doctors' Conflicts of Interests and Promoting Player Trust" focused on an inherent structural conflict that faces club doctors in the National Football League. The conflict stems from club doctors' dual role of providing medical care to players and providing strategic advice to clubs. We recommended assigning these roles to different individu...

The authors are most appreciative of this opportunity to comment on the commentaries. Dr. Morrison is certainly correct in urging the very careful and thorough use of animals to study the aging brain. But, as is well known, old dogs and monkeys do get amyloid laden plaques [1,2], so microscopic caution would be essential in the interpretation of the results. Our application of anti-synaptophysi...

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) published by BMJ aims to alert clinicians to significant advances in healthcare by selecting original and systematic review articles, from 100 candidate journals, whose results are likely to be both reliable and useful. We select articles if they concern topics relevant to internal medicine, general and family practice, surgery, emergency and critical care, psychia...

This thematic collection includes three failed replications of the initial rotating screen experiments with 41⁄2and 51⁄2-month-old infants (Baillargeon, 1987a; Baillargeon, Spelke, & Wasserman, 1985). Readers should be aware that Lécuyer in France (using computer-animated events) and Slater in England are currently conducting replications of these same experiments, with highly promising results...

When guidelines need guidance: considerations and strategies for improving the adoption of chronic disease evidence by general practitioners. (GLIA): development of an instrument to identify obstacles to guideline implementation. The authors of the two commentaries [1,2] raise interesting issues about the role of Cochrane Systematic Reviews in informing international guidelines, and give us the...

The primary goal of Evolutionary Phonology is to explain recurrent sound patterns in spoken languages across time and space. One domain of explanation is diachronic, and much of my own work has focused on diachronic explanations (e.g. Blevins 2004, 2006a, To appear a, To appear b, To appear c, this volume). Another domain of explanation is synchronic. A range of synchronic factors, from the mec...

An in ter est ing di a logue about the is sues raised by Gray and Salzman sur faced in the first round of re views, and it oc curred to us that this di a logue could be of value to the read ers of Hu man–Com puter In ter ac tion. We in vited a num ber of peo ple in the field to sub mit com men tar ies on the ar ti cle. These were re viewed and re vised, with all com men ta tors see ing each oth...