† We acknowledge the useful comments from Nerissa Brown, Woo-Jin Chan, Jeff Coulton, Neil Fargher, Sarah McVay, Gil Sadka, Andreas Simon and participants at the AFAANZ Annual Conference in 2005. This work was started by Andrew Lynch as part of his honour’s thesis at the University of Melbourne, and completed while Asher Curtis and Julian Yeo were PhD students at the University of New South Wale...

Much has been written about the efficiency of markets in general and of the market for equities in particular, and of its implications for the more-orless random-like behavior of stock prices. The conventional argument is that opportunistic trading by rational investors will arbitrage away any gains that can be made from predictable patterns; what is left are the perturbations in asset values c...

The alcoholic fermentative ability of yeast strains; Saccharomyces cerevisiae (isolated from yam), S. cerevisiae (from sugarcane molasses), S. carlsbergensis (from sugarcane molasses) and S. cerevisiae var. ellipsoideus (from orange juice) were examined on orange juice (Citrus sinensis). The quality of the wine produced on the basis of the acidity, ash content, vitamin C and the alcohol content...

The urge to merge has never been more compelling, however, than in the wake of the recent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The health reform efforts are reshaping the landscape for physicians, challenging their basic historic values about professional autonomy. Doctors are encouraged to rely more on collaborative clinical outcomes research than on individual judgment t...

OBJECTIVES Controversy has been prompted based on drug interaction between proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and aspirin/clopidogrel leading to weakened effects. However, whether such interaction was drug-specific or class effect remains controversial. This study predicted the impact of esomeprazole and rabeprazole on efficacy of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT). METHODS This study, involving 150...

Among approaches to establish the importance of niche differentiation for species coexistence, the use of functional traits is attractive for its potential to suggest specific coexistence mechanisms. Recent studies have looked for trait patterns reflective of niche differentiation, building on a line of research with a deep but somewhat neglected history. We review the field from its foundation...

I think there is much to like and agree with in Etzioni’s argument. And while he provides a wealth of specific examples, this is the first real utopias proposal that offers a general societal framework, rather than a specific proposal. This leads one to speculate on how well other proposals would fit within the communitarian agenda. Clearly, activities that promote civic engagement, like delibe...

In classical logics, the meaning of a formula is invariant with respect to the renaming of bound variables. This property, normally taken for granted, has been shown not to hold in the case of Independence Friendly (IF) logics. In this paper we argue that this is not an inherent characteristic of these logics but a defect in the way in which the compositional semantics given by Hodges for the r...