Machete Cut Marks on Bone: our Current Knowledge Base

Cut marks on bone surfaces: influences on variation in the form of traces of ancient behaviour.

Although we know that our lineage has been producing sharp-edged tools for over 2.6 Myr, our knowledge of what they were doing with these tools is far less complete. Studies of these sharp-edged stone tools show that they were most probably used as cutting implements. However, the only substantial evidence of this is the presence of cut marks on the bones of animals found in association with st...

First Contact to Odors: Our Current Knowledge about Odorant Receptors

Chemical senses - especially smell - are known to be important for the fundamental life events such as sensing predators, selecting mates, as well as finding food. The chemical senses are decoded in the olfactory system which is able to detect and differentiate thousands of odorous substances comprised of chemically divergent structures (i.e. odorants). The high selectivity of the olfactory sys...

Accelerated partial-breast irradiation: the current state of our knowledge.

Breast-conserving therapy consisting of segmental mastectomy followed by whole-breast irradiation (WBI) has become widely accepted as an alternative to mastectomy as a treatment for women with early-stage breast cancer. Accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) is a shorter, alternative radiation technique for select patients with favorable early-stage breast cancer. We review here the diff...

Our Current Knowledge of Iron Metabolism and Related Disorders

On Propositional Knowledge Base Updates

It is well known that the minimal change principle was widely used in propositional knowledge base updates. However, recent research has shown that under some circumstances, the conventional minimal change methods were inappropriate for updating knowledge bases with disjunctive eeects. In this paper we propose a new method for the knowledge base update based on a persistence principle, which pr...