"Heat-of-passion crimes" are committed by jealous men against supposedly unfaithful mates, "honor killings" by vengeful relatives against female family members who have disgraced them. These terms are imprecise, and they overlap greatly in usage, but they are similarly, and troublingly, guilt-mitigating. Heat-of-passion crimes and honor killings are universally reported yet vary in incidence cu...

We analyze the decomposition of recently constructed unfaithful spinor representations of K(E10) under its SO(9)×SO(9), and SO(9)×SO(2) subgroups, respectively, where K(E10) is the ‘maximal compact’ subgroup of the hyperbolic Kac–Moody group E10. We show that under these decompositions, respectively, one and the same K(E10) spinor gives rise to both the fermionic fields of IIA supergravity, and...

The observation that mutations in the Escherichia coli genes umuC+ and umuD+ abolish mutagenesis induced by UV light strongly supported the counterintuitive notion that such mutagenesis is an active rather than passive process. Genetic and biochemical studies have revealed that umuC+ and its homolog dinB+ encode novel DNA polymerases with the ability to catalyze synthesis past DNA lesions that ...

Evaluating an explanation's faithfulness is desired for many reasons such as trust, interpretability and diagnosing the sources of model's errors. In this work, which focuses on NLI task, we introduce methodology Faithfulness-through-Counterfactuals, first generates a counterfactual hypothesis based logical predicates expressed in explanation, then evaluates if prediction consistent with that l...

Two fundamental theorems of classical knot theory, by J. Alexander, are that every knot is a closed braid, and second, that a certain procedure (see [1,2] for both results) assigns to each knot K a polynomial A(K) in T, which only depends on the topological type of the knot once normalized by a power of T to take a positive value at T = 0. With this normalization, take T to be a transcendental ...

Violence against women and girls in the 21st century remains a common profoundly consequential violation of women’s human rights. It is part gender inequality, an integral social system, linked to other aspects economic development. When reporting about it, media produce additional damage by continuously highlighting hostile violent treatment women. Representations sexuality news reinforce perc...

With around five million people accessing anti-retroviral treatment, which significantly reduces mortality and extends life, the HIV pandemic now exists in a context of treatment possibility, if not access. This paper discusses ways in which the pandemic is becoming naturalised through medicalisation, normalisation and marketisation, and how these processes undermine themselves internally. The ...

With me, it happened in the beginning of the last decade (1990). When the post of editor of the unit's periodical became vacant, the Director, like most Directors, looked around him in search of his best friend or his worst enemy. He picked me for one of those two reasons, which one of them I have not found out. But it really does not make that much of a difference given the size of the problem...