Abstract Epistemologists have posed the following puzzle, known as proof paradox: Why is it intuitively problematic for juries to convict on basis of statistical evidence and yet unproblematic far less reliable, non-statistical evidence? To answer this question, theorists explained exclusion by arguing that legal requires certain epistemic features. In paper, I make two contributions debate. Fi...

Plaintiff instituted an action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act,' alleging that defendant was negligent in that it "should have known of the [defective mechanism and] . . . failed to make proper repairs." 2 The plaintiff at no time explicitly mentioned the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur; the defendant limited its defense to the question of damages. The district court instructed the jur...

Thin client or network computing is a hot topic. The hype claims lower total cost of ownership, faster applications deployment and reduced management pain, compared to traditional computing architectures. Early in 1998 the Flinders University Library installed network computers in the Central and branch libraries for student access to the Internet. This paper is a review of network computers in...

This research assessed the stability of memory for emotions over time, and the relationship between current appraisals and memory for emotions. A week after the televised announcement of the verdict in the criminal trial of Mr Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson, participants were asked to describe their emotional reactions and their appraisals when they first learned of the verdict. After a delay of...

Neurodegenerative diseases are devastating human disorders characterized by neuronal cell death. Each disease is linked to the misfolding of specific proteins that accumulate and cause intracellular or extracellular brain inclusions. However, the mechanism by which neuronal death develops is still unknown. Since these protein aggregates are typically fibrillar, one hypothesis identifies such fi...

How people judge something to be morally right or wrong is a fundamental question of both the sciences and the humanities. Here we aim to identify the neural processes that underlie the specific conclusion that something is morally wrong. To do this, we introduce a novel distinction between "moral deliberation," or the weighing of moral considerations, and the formation of a "moral verdict," or...

For 40 years, the debate has raged. Do mammalian cells monitor cell size when deciding whether to divide? More recent models suggest an indirect solution, but the field is far from reaching a final verdict.