It is often said that Darwin’s theory of natural selection is unproven True? I don’t think that is a very useful question because Darwin’s strength comes not so much from what he proved, but from the near-inescapable conclusions that he led us to. He used every means of informing himself about questions that interested him. He is known for his massive and continuous correspondence, always askin...

Seventy years ago Steiger, a Swiss ophthalmologist, found the distribution of corneal powers to follow a normal (binomial) curve. He noted a wide range of values among emmetropes, and he also knew that their axial lengths varied significantly. He expected that normal distributions would be found for other components of refraction and also for refraction as a whole, and in seeking a controlling ...

Disabled, the World Rehabilita tion Fund, and many others. In these cooperative efforts he reveals the broad range of his associations and interes ts while at the same time enriching also the experiences of those so associated with him. As he takes office Dr. Convit has expressed the hope that The Association will function as a truly international society with a unifying espi.rit de corps dedic...

3D NAND flash memory constitutes strong competitors for neuromorphic computing due to its high density and mature technology. Neural networks based on differential pair have been reported since conventional block erase scheme hinders individual conductance modulation. However, the halves efficient synaptic operation is still inevitable when one of devices reaches minimum conductance. To overcom...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to sincerely thank my research advisor, Dr. Daniel A. Reed, for his kind guidance and support along the development of this thesis. Thank him for providing me with this opportunity to benefit from his knowledge. I would like to thank the members of the Pablo group who have helped and encouraged me in my work. I would like to thank Eric Shaffer, Don Schmidt and Jim Oly fo...

Jin Liu 1,2, Wenxiang Zhao 1,2,*, Jinghua Ji 1,2, Guohai Liu 1,2 and Tao Tao 1,2 1 School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China; [email protected] (J.L.); [email protected] (J.J.); [email protected] (G.L.); [email protected] (T.T.) 2 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drive and Intelligent Control for Electric Vehicle, Zhenjiang 212013, China * Corresponde...

With the support of the comprehensive review in Liu et al. [14], we consider dependency distance minimization to be firmly established as a quantitative property of syntactic trees. In this comment, we consider future empirical and theoretical directions for this concept, including a recent information-theoretic reinterpretation of dependency locality effects as proposed by Futrell and Levy [4].

The two most influential biologists in history, Darwin and Mendel, were contemporaries and yet the initial acceptance of their ideas suffered very different fates. Darwin was concerned with the evolution of complex traits (and hence concepts from population and quantitative genetics), while Mendel was concerned with the transmission of traits that had a simple genetic basis (often a single gene...