Eating Disorders (EDs) show a multifactorial etiopathogenesis including environmental, psychological and biological factors. In the present study, we propose a model of interactions between genetic vulnerability-represented by Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated (FTO) gene-and stable psychopathological traits, such as bodily disorders and emotion dysregulation for EDs patients. The distribution of ...

Here she proposes a view of psychoanalysis as a treatment that owes its successes largely to its biological nature—biological in its capacity to best approximate the extinction of problems arising owing to aversive conditioning. She also discusses whether “the mental” can have any real ontological standing, advancing a new form of reductive physicalism— diachronic conjunctive token physicalism ...

Algebraic systems with partial operations have different ways to interpret equality between two terms of the language. A strong identity is a formula which says that two terms are equal in the algebra if the existence of one of them implies the existence of the other one and in the case of existence their values are equal. A class of partial algebras defined by a set of strong identities is cal...

An elliptic BCn generalization of the classical two parameter Bailey Lemma is proved, and a basic one parameter BCn Bailey Lemma is obtained as a limiting case. Several summation and transformation formulas associated with the root system BCn are proved as applications, including a 6φ5 summation formula, a generalized Watson transformation and an unspecialized Rogers–Selberg identity. The last ...

In this paper all poset structures are classi£ed which admit the MacWilliams identity, and the MacWilliams identities for poset weight enumerators corresponding to such posets are derived. We prove that being a hierarchical poset is a necessary and suf£cient condition for a poset to admit MacWilliams identity. An explicit relation is also derived between P-weight distribution of a hierarchical ...

Recently digital items (e.g., avatars) have been widely used by people in virtual communities (VC) and online games. Some Internet companies generate revenue from sales of digital items to their customers. Sales of digital items provide revenue for Internet companies and VC providers who are suffering from lack of a profitable business model. However there is a lack of understanding about peopl...

I argue for an idealist ontology consistent with empirical observations, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism. This ontology also attempts to offer more explanatory power than both physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism, in that it does not fall prey to either the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ or the ‘subject combination prob...