Elissa S. Guralnick, Sight Unseen: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Other Contemporary Dramatists on Radio

“Sight-unseen” detection of rare aquatic species using environmental DNA

Effective management of rare species, including endangered native species and recently introduced nonindigenous species, requires the detection of populations at low density. For endangered species, detecting the localized distribution makes it possible to identify and protect critical habitat to enhance survival or reproductive success. Similarly, early detection of an incipient invasion by a ...

Estimating the Unseen: Improved Estimators for Entropy and other Properties

Recently, Valiant and Valiant [1, 2] showed that a class of distributional properties, which includes such practically relevant properties as entropy, the number of distinct elements, and distance metrics between pairs of distributions, can be estimated given a sublinear sized sample. Specifically, given a sample consisting of independent draws from any distribution over at most n distinct elem...

Out of sight but not out of mind: unseen affective faces influence evaluations and social impressions.

Using Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS), we demonstrated in four experiments that affective information extracted from unseen faces influences both affective and personality judgments of neutral faces. In four experiments, participants judged neutral faces as more pleasant or unpleasant (Studies 1 and 2) or as more or less trustworthy, likable, and attractive (Study 3) or as more or less compe...

Levinas\'s Ethical Theory of the other and Its Implications on Education

Background: Modern subject-based philosophy, in which everything reduces to the whole, reduces to the Other to I, or emanates it from the realm of knowledge, ignores the differences, currently cannot answer to ethics. Levinas, as a philosopher who has a concern about the “Other", believes that there is no subject that needs to be known, and the other is "Self" in advance and is touched rather t...

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