Logan [1] in his book The Extended Mind developed the hypothesis that language, culture, technology and science can be treated as organisms that evolve and reproduce themselves. This idea is extended by making use of the notion of teleodynamics that Deacon [2] introduced and developed in his book Incomplete Nature to explain the nature of life, sentience, mind and a self that acts in its own in...

Mutations affecting the self-incompatibility response of Nicotiana alata were generated by irradiation. Mutants in the M1 generation were selected on the basis of pollen tube growth through an otherwise incompatible pistil. Twelve of the 18 M1 plants obtained from the mutagenesis screen were self-compatible. Eleven self-compatible plants had mutations affecting only the pollen function of the S...

Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, less is known about the role of enhanced self-image concerns. In this paper, we exogenously vary self-image concerns in manipulating selfdirected attention and study the impact on moral ...

Cho et al. [2] introduced the notion of semicompatible maps in a d-topological space. They define a pair of self-maps (S,T) to be semicompatible if conditions (i) Sy = Ty implies that STy = TSy; (ii) for sequence {xn} in X and x ∈ X , whenever {Sxn} → x,{Txn} → x, then STxn → Tx, as n→∞, hold. However, in Fuzzy metric space (ii) implies (i), taking xn = y for all n and x = Ty = Sy. So, we defin...

The G protein GAs pathway is linked to proapoptotic signaling in cancer cell lines. To assess the role of the GNAS1 locus encoding GAs as a genetic factor for disease progression of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder, we genotyped the synonymous T393C polymorphism in 254 patients with TCC (minor allele frequency: 0.43) to examine a potential association between genotypes and disea...

Metzinger’s claim that there are no such things as selves has given rise to a lot of discussions. By examining the notion of self used by Metzinger, I want to clarify what he means when saying that nobody ever was or had a self. Furthermore, I want to examine if there could be a notion of ‘self’ which is compatible with the SelfModel Theory of Subjectivity (SMT). I will argue that there is a no...

Salinity tolerance of four grape genotypes [GharaUzum, Hosseini, AghUzum and Keshmeshi] was studied under various salinity levels (25, 50 and 100 mM NaCl). As a result, growth indices were significantly (P<0.05) reduced by salinity, whereas Cl- and Na+ contents in the plant parts were increased. Cl- accumulation exceeded than that of Na+ in all treatments. Among the genotypes studied, GharaUzum...