1. Colloquial American English allows dollars not to be pronounced in sentences like: (1) How can they be asking a hundred and fifty thousand for a house with no roof? (2) It’ll cost you a hundred just to get into the game. In an even more colloquial or slang register, (1) can be expressed as: (3) How can they be asking a hundred and fifty grand for a house with no roof? with grand apparently r...

In “Teleological Dispositions,” Nick Kroll offers a novel theory of dispositions in terms of primitive directed states. Kroll is clear that his notion of directedness “outstrips talk of goals, purposes, design, and function” (##), and that it commits him to “primitive teleological facts” (##). This notion may strike some as outdated and unscientific, but Kroll argues that it has an important th...

Connectionism and classicism, it generally appears, have at least this much in common: both place some notion of internal representation at the heart of a scientific study of mind. In recent years, however, a much more radical view has gained increasing popularity. This view calls into question the commitment to internal representation itself. More strikingly still, this new wave of anti-repres...

OBJECTIVES Validation of a cost effective in-house method for HIV-1 drug resistance genotyping using plasma samples. DESIGN The validation includes the establishment of analytical performance characteristics such as accuracy, reproducibility, precision and sensitivity. METHODS The accuracy was assessed by comparing 26 paired Virological Quality Assessment (VQA) proficiency testing panel seq...

Information technology had a great impact in all aspects of life and the global economy is currently undergoing fundamental transformation. Information technology has very real impact in most of industries and in all aspects of economy, while businesses and enterprises continue to undergo considerable changes. Usage of these technologies is revolutionizing the rules of business, resulting in st...

The performance of a commercial immunofluorescence assay (IFA commercial), an in-house in-house) and indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent (ELISA) were evaluated in the detection antibodies anti-C. burnetii serum Q fever patients persons without disease. For study, seropositive seronegative samples for (n = 200) from bank Instituto Adolfo Lutz Brazil used. Commercial IFA was considered this stud...

We present an \unfailing" extension of the standard KnuthBendix completion procedure that is guaranteed to produce a desired canonical system, provided certain conditions are met. We prove that this unfailing completion method is refutationally complete for theorem proving in equational theories. The method can also be applied to Horn clauses with equality, in which case it corresponds to posit...

Three experiments investigated whether emotional information influences perceptual dominance during binocular rivalry. In Experiment 1, rival emotional and neutral faces in the background were coupled with grating stimuli in the foreground. Results showed that gratings paired with emotional faces dominated over those paired with neutral faces. In Experiment 2, emotional and neutral faces were p...