Britain's National Portrait Gallery, which has recently acquired a striking new wing, has this autumn also obtained a very new kind of portrait. Artist Marc Quinn has created a 'genomic portrait' of Sir John Sulston, former director of the Wellcome Trust's Sanger Centre near Cambridge, who led the UK arm of the human genome project which announced completion of the first draft last year. As the...

3. Caution.....don’t plagiarize! 4. If a term needs to be explained....explain it! !" A thesaurus can be your best friend! 1. Look for repetition of a word or phrase within your first draft. 2. Ask yourself what other word or phrase could you use. 3. Use the thesaurus! !" KISS....Keep it short & sweet! 1. Look for ways to use the positive verses the negative. 2. Focus on the educational implica...

Children learn language from what they hear. In dispute is what mechanisms they bring to this task. Clearly some of these mechanisms have evolved to support the human speech capacity but this leaves a wide field of possibilities open. The question I will address in my paper is whether we need to postulate an innate syntactic module that has evolved to make the learning of language structure pos...

Few replies get published. Many that do get published could be more effective. A reply can be effective only if it is published, readable, and credible. This article suggests guidelines for writing good replies. The guidelines begin with things to keep in mind—for example, that you might be wrong—and things to do before you begin to write. The latter include considering not responding, consider...

mirror neuron system 30 31  Cook: conducted experimental sessions; contributed to the data analysis and interpretation; wrote the first draft of the paper. Bird: contributed to the design of the experiment; conducted experimental sessions. Lünser: contributed to the design, data analysis and second draft of the paper. Huck: provided the idea for the study; contributed to the design, data analy...

The epistemic closure principle says that knowledge is closed under known entailment. The closure principle is deeply implicated in numerous core debates in contemporary epistemo logy. Closure’s opponents claim that there are good theoretical reasons to abandon it. Closure’s proponents claim that it is a defining feature of ordinary thought and talk and, thus, abandoning it is radically revisio...

This paper makes three contributions. First, I report information on the size of the Japanese financial crisis. Drawing principally on work by Fukao (2003) and Doi and Hoshi (2003) I estimate that the current taxpayer liability for losses incurred but yet to be recognized is likely to be at least 24% of GDP. Second, I explain why it has been so difficult to end the crisis. Third, I sketch the l...

The average Latin American country produces about 1 fifth of the output per worker of the US. What are the sources of these enormous income gaps? I report development-accounting results for Latin America. On average Latin America’s overall physical and human capital endowment relative to the USA is essentially identical to Latin America’s efficiency relative to the USA . In my main sample avera...

This study investigates how college students solve their cognitive conflicts when receiving peers’ suggestions and corrections in online text revision. A sample of 45 undergraduate students were recruited to read their peer writers’ texts, edit peer writers’ errors, evaluate peer editors’ corrections and suggestions, and finally rewrite their own texts. Stratified sampling was employed to ident...

We introduce a new economic system suited for Intangible Goods (ig). We argue that such system can now be implemented in the real world using advance technics in distributed network computing and cryptography. The specification of the so called tnet is presented. To Limit the number of financial transactions, the system is forced to define its own currency, with many benefits. The new “cup” cur...