Husserl intended the phenomenological method as a new beginning for philosophy. The epoché, key notion of this method, entails modification attitude such that it can completely cancel and disempower all might be given to us used philosophical inquiry. In Ideas I, in particular, is addressed “neutrality modification,” defined universal consciousness permeates attitude. Neutralization, along with...

The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC” or “the commission”) January 3, 2013 decision to close its longstanding investigation of Google brings to a close a flurry of discussion over the possibility that Google could become subject to a “search neutrality” principle in the United States. Although the Commission found against Google on several grounds, it rejected petitions from Google’s critics to...

Neutrality tests in quantitative genetics provide a statistical framework for the detection of selection on polygenic traits in wild populations. However, the existing method based on comparisons of divergence at neutral markers and quantitative traits (Q(st)-F(st)) suffers from several limitations that hinder a clear interpretation of the results with typical empirical designs. In this article...