Ashford (1917) and a number of subsequent workers regarded monilias, particularly Monilia psilosis, as the cause of sprue. Several species of the genus Monilia have been implicated in the causation of sprue and this disease was at one time regarded as moniliasis of the digestive tract. Although the result of recent work has shown that this view is no longer justifiable, there is a tendency for ...

We investigated the effects of familiarity on person perception. We predicted that familiarity would increase non-analytic processing, reducing attention to and the impact of individuating information, and increasing the impact of category labels on judgments about a target person. In two studies participants read either incriminating or exculpatory individuating information about a defendant i...

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1998) 78–97 0031–5621/98/0100–0000 © 1998 University of Southern California and Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Published by Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Abstract: J. L. Mackie’s famous claim that Locke ‘anticipates’ Kripke’s Causal Theory of Reference (CTR) rests, I suggest, upon a pair of im...

This paper examines the case for usage-based pricing in the Internet. We extend earlier work by Mackie-Mason and Varian [21] on congestion-based pricing in a single network to the case of multiple, competing carriers, and examine the problem of settlements between service providers that arises. With optimal congestion prices, it will probably be necessary to allocate revenues to the multiple, c...