Where’s the Beef Indeed!

Difficile indeed.

The Wheres and Whyfores for Studying Textual Genre Computationally

This brief paper gives an example of statistical stylistic experimentation and argues for more informed measures of variation and choice and more informed measures of readership analysis to be able to posit dimensions of textual variation usefully.

Sperm Biology: Size Indeed Matters

Although sperm are typically thought to be small, tadpole-like cells produced in vast quantities, sperm size, form and number all vary tremendously across species. Sperm form ranges from amoeboid or discoid to multiflagellate elongated structures [1]. Even within the more familiar uniflagellate spermatozoa, length varies by several orders of magnitude, from the tiny 28μm long porcupine sperm to...

Language may indeed influence thought

We discuss four interconnected issues that we believe have hindered investigations into how language may affect thinking. These have had a tendency to reappear in the debate concerning linguistic relativity over the past decades, despite numerous empirical findings. The first is the claim that it is impossible to disentangle language from thought, making the question concerning "influence" poin...

The cardiac IKs channel, complex indeed.

T he cardiac IKs channel is a major repolarization current in the heart that responds rapidly and robustly to sympathetic nervous system stimulation to ensure adequate diastolic filling time in the face of accompanying accelerated heart rate. In cardiac myocytes, the IKs channel is a macromolecular complex composed of a poreforming α (KCNQ1) subunit and modulatory β (KCNE1) subunit, as well as ...