Behavioral objectives (the author replies, I)

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I respond to the Bernard et al. comment on my letter “Chiral anomalies and rooted staggered fermions.” In their comment on my letter “Chiral anomalies and rooted staggered fermions,” [1] Bernard, Golterman, Shamir, and Sharpe [2] do not address the main point that the chiral symmetry group for the rooted theory has a higher rank than the target theory. This immediately calls into question wheth...

Chapter I: Introduction and Objectives

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Menzel’s commentary is a tightly focused, extended argument and it may be summarized as follows: (a) though Zalta gathers a range of phenomena under a small set of concepts, unfortunately, the framework is a possibilist one; (b) Zalta justifies possibilism by arguing that it provides the simplest and most natural explanation and analysis of such phenomena as ordinary modal discourse; but (c) by...

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Disturbingly, the strategy laid out in Dr. B. T. Cesul’s article “A Global Space Control Strategy” (November–December 2014) essentially is a throwback to the “space dominance” policies and ambitions set out by the administration of President George W. Bush, following from the 2001 Rumsfeld Space Commission report. Furthermore, the strategy it espouses is just as unobtainable and undesirable now...

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1. Identify characteristics of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). 2. Identify the most important variable driving EIDs. 3. Identify 11 major factors associated with EIDs. 4. Recognize the role of travel and trade in EIDs. 5. Match animals to the organism or disease transmitted by them. 6. Match the mortality rates for each EID. 7. Recognize the economic impact of infectious disease. 8. Identi...