Apoptosis - many admire, few know

If so many are “few,” how few are “many”?

The scope of reference of a word's meaning can be highly variable. We present a novel paradigm to investigate the flexible interpretation of word meaning. We focus on quantifiers such as "many" or "few," a class of words that depends on number knowledge but can be interpreted in a flexible manner. Healthy young adults performed a truth value judgment task on pictorial arrays of varying amounts ...

Many players , few participants ∗

We derive equilibrium properties of participation in a large family of economic games that take place when players’ information is incomplete. The fact that participation is almost always costly introduces a crucial distinction between players and participants. The number of players is exogenous but the number, or distribution, of participants is part of equilibrium. We assume a quite general s...

Too few physicians, or too many?

Control of Many Agents Using Few Instructions

This paper considers the problem of controlling a group of agents under the constraint that every agent must be given the same control input. This problem is relevant for the control of mobile micro-robots which all receive the same power and control signals through an underlying substrate. Despite this restriction, several examples in simulation demonstrate that it is possible to get a group o...

How Do so Few Control so Many?

The separation of sister chromatids at the metaphase-to-anaphase transition is triggered by a protease called separase that is activated by the destruction of an inhibitory chaperone (securin). This process is mediated by a ubiquitin protein ligase called the anaphase-promoting complex or cyclosome (APC/C), along with a protein called Cdc20. It is vital that separase not be activated before eve...