Two experiments used rats to examine the transfer of control of a stimulus to a new instrumental response. That transfer was successful to the degree that the stimulus and the response shared a common outcome. The transfer was more substantial, however, when the stimulus signaled the availability of that outcome for another instrumental response compared with signaling its occurrence in a Pavlo...

M. Casas, P. W. Lamberti , A. Plastino , and A. R. Plastino 4, 5 1 Department de Fisica and IMEDEA, Universitat de les Illes Balears 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2 Facultad de Matemática, Astronomı́a y F́ısica Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Ciudad Universitaria 5000 Córdoba, Argentina 3 Universidad Nacional d e La Plata, C.C. 727, 1900 La Plata, Argentina 4 Argentine National Research Center (...

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Antonio Delgado, 3 Carlos A. Garćıa Canal, 5 and Sergio J. Sciutto 5 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA Departamento de F́ısica Universidad Nacional de La Plata, C.C.67, La Plata (1900),...

Mortality Patterns and Publie Health in Hamilton, Canada, 1900-14

Abstract Global mean sea-level rise (SLR) has accelerated since 1900 from less than 2 mm yr −1 during most of the century to more 3 1993. Decision-makers in coastal countries, however, require information on SLR at regional scale, where detection an acceleration is difficult, because long-term signal obscured by large inter-annual variations with multi-year trends that are easily one order magn...

We live in a highly economised culture, one that has accommodated to division of labour, class, commodification and instrumental rationality to a considerable degree. A long tradition of social theory has been concerned with precisely this. In different ways, thinkers such as Habermas, Polanyi, Weber, Marx, Smith, and as far back as Aristotle have argued that this economisation has detrimental ...

In this article I examine how Edward Bond realizes his dramaturgy of crisis through dystopian imagination in The Chair Plays. I argue that Bond’s idea of ‘crisis’ refers to the ‘logic of Auschwitz’ in an Adornian sense, that is, the crisis of modernist instrumental rationality. His dystopia is a chronotope of the extreme form of such rationality that demarcates the limits of imagination and fre...

Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) undergo changes in their pulse properties and persistent emission during episodes of intense burst activity. Both SGR 1900+14 and SGR 1806−20 have shown significant changes in their spin-down rates during the last several years, yet the bulk of this variability is not correlated with burst activity. SGR 1900+14 has undergone large changes in flux and a dramatic pulse...