N THE OTHER ARTICLES in this series the digital computer has been thought of as a purely menial tool—in fact, as a kind of intellectual spade. This, it has been shown, can indeed assist a human scholar who is working on language, by performing for him a series of irksome repetitive tasks: tasks such as counting the number of words in a text, making a concordance of their occurrence, and mechani...

This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being. A detailed conceptual framework explores the nature of the system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods that match his basic capabilities to his problems. One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promis...

OBJECTIVE To report the detection of mutations in the SCARB2 gene in a previously described patient with progressive myoclonus epilepsy (PME) and demyelinating peripheral neuropathy. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Epilepsy Genetics Research Laboratory and Epilepsy Service in a tertiary care center. PATIENT A 27-year old male patient with PME with preserved intellect and peripheral neuropathy...

Thank you for that kind introduction. I am tempted to quote the words of Robbie Burns from his poem 'To A Louse': 'O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us.' But I fear that if I really did have that power, what I should actually see would be far less flattering than the introduction I have just received. So, perhaps instead, I should just quote the famous line of Adl...

This study investigates the sequential mediating effects of individual conflict on change and emotional intelligence between age work outcomes, explained through ability-based model expressive intellect. In light increasingly diverse workforce, it is interestingly important to investigate differences in context organisational change. Thus, also aims measure association alteration, considering l...

Frederik Stjernfelt Center for Semiotics Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark [email protected] Abstract Theses on the semiotic study of life as presented here provide a collectively formulated set of statements on what biology needs to be focused on in order to describe life as a process based on semiosis, or signaction. An aim of the biosemiotic approach is to explain how life evolves through al...