Editorial commentGrowth factor therapy grows, despite limited insight

Nebraska Economy Grows Despite Recession Concerns

Nurse supply grows despite shortage fears.

Heat shock proteins and cancer therapy: The trail grows hotter!

The physiological properties of the heat shock response were initially studied over three decades ago in Drosophila based on the observation that it had protective functions against teratogenic agents and heat induced animal death. While initially believed to be unique to flies, it was rapidly observed to be universal response common to all living organisms. Early mammalian studies (reviewed in...

Blind Insight: Metacognitive Discrimination Despite Chance Task Performance

Blindsight and other examples of unconscious knowledge and perception demonstrate dissociations between judgment accuracy and metacognition: Studies reveal that participants' judgment accuracy can be above chance while their confidence ratings fail to discriminate right from wrong answers. Here, we demonstrated the opposite dissociation: a reliable relationship between confidence and judgment a...

Voting Almost Maximizes Social Welfare Despite Limited Communication

In cooperative multiagent systems an alternative that maximizes the social welfare—the sum of utilities—can only be selected if each agent reports its full utility function. This may be infeasible in environments where communication is restricted. Employing a voting rule to choose an alternative greatly reduces the communication burden, but leads to a possible gap between the social welfare of ...