Unholy matrimony

Time Consistent Matrimony with Endogenous Trust*

A simple model of marriage and divorce predicts that no marriages occur. Yet, in real life, people marry all the time in seemingly similar situations. This discordance is explained using psychological game theory. An emotional guilt effect is explicitly modeled and multiple belief-dependent equilibria become possible: some marriages don't happen, some are formed but end in divorce, some last a ...

Supervenience, Emergence, and Epiphenomenalism: Physicalism’s Unholy Trinity

FGF-23, vitamin D and calcification: the unholy triad.

Recent studies have changed the commonly held view that phosphate is mostly needed for normal skeletal growth and development. Extensive research in the last decade has identified numerous other essential dynamic functions for phosphate, ranging from signalling to energy metabolism. Abnormal phosphate homeostasis potentially affects functional activities of almost any organ system. Despite its ...

Heritage and Tourism in Ireland -an unholy alliance?

With the opening of the long-awaited Boyne Valley Centre in Summer 1997, the time has perhaps come to reassess the relationship between heritage and tourism in Ireland. In recent years, particularly since the start of the 1990s, there has been considerable debate and controversy about heritage issues, illustrating a high degree of public interest in the field. This paper outlines the main featu...

The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species delimitation and DNA barcoding.

Recent excitement over the development of an initiative to generate DNA sequences for all named species on the planet has in our opinion generated two major areas of contention as to how this 'DNA barcoding' initiative should proceed. It is critical that these two issues are clarified and resolved, before the use of DNA as a tool for taxonomy and species delimitation can be universalized. The f...