The increasing availability of data and potential predictor variables poses new challenges to forecasters. The task of formulating a single forecasting model that can extract all the relevant information is becoming increasingly difficult in the face of this abundance of data. The two leading approaches to addressing this ”embarrassment of riches” are philosophically distinct. One approach buil...

Scientific materialism is the largely unquestioned basis for modern science's understanding of life. It also holds enormous sway beyond science and thus has increasingly marginalized religious perspectives. Yet it is easy to find behavioral phenomena from the accepted literature that seriously challenge materialism. A number of these phenomena are very suggestive of reincarnation. The larger te...

Two decades ago, therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer included surgery followed by additional radiation therapy or fluorouracil (FU) chemotherapy. The principles of surgery for rectal cancer included the freeing of the rectum from the surrounding mesorectal tissues via blunt dissection with a low anterior, sphincter-sparing resection whenever possible. Sphincter preservation was rarely ac...

Correspondence Flatulence and carpopedal spasm: more than social embarrassment Sir, A 61-year-old female of mixed Asian and African descent was admitted to our institution in December 2001, because of carpopedal spasms. She had been well until 13 months prior to admission, when she began to lose weight progressively, to a total of 20 pounds. She denied any loss of appetite, change in vision or ...

The maturation of transfer RNA (tRNA) involves extensive chemical modification of the constituent nucleosides and results in the introduction of significant chemical diversity to tRNA. Many of the pathways to these modified nucleosides are characterized by chemically complex transformations, some of which are unprecedented in other areas of biology. To illustrate the scope of the field, recent ...

New Waves in Ethics. Ed. Thom Brooks. Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming) Introduction Much has been written in recent years about the bearing of experimental results in social psychology on the existence of character traits. Gilbert Harman and John Doris are what we might call global trait eliminativists – on the basis of the psychological data, they reject the existence of all character traits w...

This article is devoted to the description of verbs emotional states shame, embarrassment, and shyness in diachronic aspect. The relevance research due need expand knowledge about dynamic changes vocabulary emotions, impact cultural political transformations on these changes. Although semantic differences Russian expressions for shame-like have been well studied, meanings received little attent...