Implicit bias has recently gained much attention in scholarly attempts to understand and explain different forms of social injustice by identifying causally relevant mental states in individual’ minds. Here we question the explanatory power of implicit bias in a particular type of injustice, testimonial injustice, and more generally in what we call speech injustice. Testimonial injustice occurs...

1954. To be sure, Ball saw the appeal of the Korea, Munich, and dominochain analogies, but in each, he also saw serious weaknesses; more important, he felt he saw deeper similarities to the situation the French had faced, which led him to his gloomy but accurate predictions of what would happen to American troops if they went in. I found this discussion enlightening, but it left me wondering, W...

RESUM Gairebe totes les planter pateixen una intluencia negativa de les planter del voltant. Encara que la paraula competencia suggereix que aquests efectes negatius es deuen a 1'esgotament d'alguns dels recursos disponibles, hi ha organismes que exerceixen la seva acci6 negativa mutua mitjancant diferents mecanismes, a mes de la utilitzaci6 dels recursos. En aquest treball es descriuen tres ni...

The duckweed family (Lemnaceae) is a group of free-floating aquatic plants with bodies consisting single floating fronds that multiply clonally. Although they are known to have the fastest relative growth rate (RGR) among higher plants, their functional trait coordination in relation within-family variation RGR poorly understood. We tested how species fit within covariation patterns as world-wi...

sheath blight disease, caused by rhizoctonia solani ag-1 ia, is one of the most serious fungal diseases of rice, worldwide. rice resistance is a relative phenomenon and disease response varied (due to complex quantitative inheritance and high environmental diversity), so an accurate disease assessment would be difficult. to detect a reliable reaction of rice in a high level of disease developme...

BACKGROUND Plants are the natural source of antioxidants as well as antimicrobial compounds that has great potentials in pharmaceutical industry. In the present study, two medicinal plants Atropa belladonna and Matricaria chamomilla were collected from Northern areas of Pakistan. MATERIALS AND METHODS The extracts of the collected plants were obtained by microwave assisted extraction (MAE) wi...