Hartley, Trueman and Meadows [3] contribute useful evidence on whether scientists can gain prestige by writing in a manner that is difficult to read. This has been called the bafflegab theory by some. They concluded that the evidence was not strong. This comment examines some of the conclusions from Hartley, Trueman, and Meadows (HTM) and recommends directions for further research. Comments Pos...

BACKGROUND Cervical disc arthroplasty is regarded as a promising treatment for myelopathy and radiculopathy as an alternative to cervical spine fusion. On the basis of 2-year clinical data for the PRESTIGE(®) Cervical Disc (Medtronic, Memphis, Tennessee), the Food and Drug Administration recommended conditional approval in September 2006 and final approval in July 2007; however, relatively litt...

Selection pressure from health risk is hypothesized to have shaped adaptations motivating individuals to attempt to become valued by other individuals by generously and recurrently providing beneficial goods and/or services to them because this strategy encouraged beneficiaries to provide costly health care to their benefactors when the latter were sick or injured. Additionally, adaptations are...

We deliver a short overview of different centrality measures and influence concepts in social networks, and present the relation-algebraic approach to the concepts of power and influence. First, we briefly discuss four kinds of measures of centrality: the ones based on degree, closeness, betweenness, and the eigenvector-related measures. We consider centrality of a node and of a network. Moreov...

contrast to their medical activity, however, most barber-surgeons seem to have shrunk from major (and dangerous) surgical operations. Their lists of clients and patients reveal that they were consulted by the middle and upper classes of society, to which they themselves belonged according to stock books of their property. About one-third of the barber-surgeons held official posts, up to that of...

The online exchange of social recognition including, for instance, the Facebook “like” appears to produce a scarce allocation without a clear utility function defined for anyone involved. Given the importance attached to such digital commodities by both users and advertisers, it is of interest to study the forces governing their economics. Here we propose a centrality measure akin to eigenvecto...