The ontology of (merely) intentional objects is a can of worms. If we can avoid ontological commitment to such entities, we should. In this paper, I offer a strategy for accomplishing that. This is to reject the traditional act-object account of intentionality in favor of an adverbial account. According to adverbialism about intentionality, having a dragon thought is not a matter of bearing the...

This English translation, made by a professional translator in close cooperation with the author and kindly proofread by Dr. Phil Larkin, follows the original text as closely as possible. However, though we thought it was wise to maintain the official (but not unproblematic) Dutch/Belgian definition of euthanasia in the original text (written for Belgian readers), the English texts offers a new...

The cellular origin of pancreatic tumors remains a vital topic for research to further our understanding of carcinogenesis. We currently do not know if cellular origin determines the phenotype of pancreatic tumors. Ninety percent of newly diagnosed pancreatic cancers are ductal adenocarcinomas (PDA). The majority of PDA are thought to originate from low-grade precursor tumors termed pancreatic ...

Fred grew up in California and studied biology and played the violin at Princeton as an undergraduate. He obtained an M.D. Ph.D. at UCSF, studying under the wise tutelage of the late Ira Herskowitz. As a graduate student, he played with budding yeast ‘shmoos’ and studied how yeast pheromones arrest the cell cycle. He then went to do postdoctoral stints with Paul Nurse in Oxford and London, and ...

It is of great interest to find the minimum effective dose (MED) in dose-response studies. A sequence of decreasing null hypotheses to find the MED is formulated under the assumption of nondecreasing dose response means. A step-up multiple test procedure that controls the familywise error rate (FWER) is constructed based on the maximum likelihood estimators for the monotone normal means. When t...

We propose the B c → B * u γ decay as the most suitable probe for the flavour changing neutral transition c → uγ. We estimate the short and long distance contributions to this decay within the standard model and we find them to be comparable; this is in contrast to radia-tive decays of D mesons, that are completely dominated by the long distance contributions. Since the c → uγ transition is ver...

This study presents a novel category of Transformer architectures known as comb transformers, which effectively reduce the space complexity self-attention layer from quadratic to sub-quadratic level. is achieved by processing sequence segments independently and incorporating X -word embeddings ...

It is so obvious that every site that went to critical effort of construction has to be maintained. The site can be of any place that explains earlier regardless of domain. This paper deals with a system that diagnoses maintenance problem in a site as well as, registers problems that are given by the user to it. Further, it deals with scheduling those problems for the next day maintenance sched...