Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes

Function Spaces – and How They Relate

We’re not interested in a function here or a function there. We’re interested in the collection of all functions to R or to C. Why are we interested in these? Functions describe lots of things. For example, a function on a “physical body” could be used to describe the temperature at every point on the body. Functions to R or C are scalar-valued: they have their image in a field. We are often in...

Corecursion and coinduction: what they are and how they relate to recursion and induction

Asthma, Food Allergy, and How They Relate to Each Other

The association between atopic diseases is well known, and previous research has shown that having one atopic disease can predispose to having another. The link between asthma and food allergy has been well researched, but the exact relationship between the two atopic conditions is not fully understood. Food allergic infants are at increased risk for the development of asthma and are at risk of...

Drug Interactions I: How They Occur

Medication use is extensive in developed countries: it has been estimated that approximately four fifths of US adults use at least one medication (prescription medicine, over-the-counter (OTC) drug, herbal remedy) per week, and this rate increases with age. A recent US survey reported an average of 2.3 medications prescribed or provided per patient visit. A study carried out in Ireland noted th...

Disappearing plants: why they hide and how they return.

Prolonged dormancy is a life-history stage in which mature plants fail to resprout for one or more growing seasons and instead remain alive belowground. Prolonged dormancy is relatively common, but the proximate causes and consequences of this intriguing strategy have remained elusive. In this study we tested whether stored resources are associated with remaining belowground, and investigated t...