Recent Work on the Bryophyta.

RECENT WORK Recent Work: Dispositions

Controversy about dispositions ranges over the following four domains: (i) the semantics of disposition ascriptions; (ii) the distinction between dispositional and categorical properties; (iii) the metaphysical status of dispositions, i.e. their fundamentality, naturalness and intrinsicness; and (iv) the various dispositional analyses of philosophical notions like causation, laws, modality, cou...

Recent Work on the Arrow of Radiation ∗

In many physical systems, coupling forces provide a way of carrying the energy stored in adjacent harmonic oscillators from place to place, in the form of waves. The wave equations governing such phenomena are timesymmetric: they permit the opposite processes, in which energy arrives at a point in the form of incoming concentric waves, to be lost to some external system. But these processes see...

Recent Work on Virtue Epistemology

Recent Work on the Propeller Conjecture

How can one prove a sharp inequality? Symmetrization, Fourier analysis, and probability are often used, and we will survey some of these methods through examples. We then survey sharp constants in Grothendieck inequalities, leading to some recent work on computing the best constant for a Grothendieck-type inequality of Khot and Naor. (Joint work with Aukosh Jagannath and Assaf Naor)

Recent work on thyroid hormones.

Progress in research frequently awaits the application of new techniques developed in unrelated fields. The biochemistry of the thyroid gland is a particularly good example, for remarkable advances have followed the introduction of paper chromatography and autoradiography with radioactive iodine (131I). Classical methods had previously shown that the circulating form of thyroid hormone was the ...