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Corrado Barbui and Irene Bighelli question the current rules governing registration of new medicines in Europe, using the example of psychiatric drugs, and argue that the concept of absolute efficacy should be replaced by the concept of added value whereby evidence from studies comparing a new product with an active comparator should guide the drug approval process. Please see later in the arti...

In the mid-1960s, it was generally agreed that the engram, the neural trace of previously experienced events, must be encoded by Hebb-like neurons in which synaptic efficacy could be modified by activity. Here, I describe my attempts as a PhD student at McGill University, Montreal, to find rules governing cortical plasticity in the neocortex, and having failed, why the hippocampus seemed to off...

Against the rules: during the hundred years following Sabatier's groundbreaking work on catalytic hydrogenation, syn delivery of the H atoms to the π system of a substrate remained the governing stereochemical rule. An exception has now be found with the use of cationic [Cp*Ru] templates, which accounts for the first practical, functional-group-tolerant, broadly applicable and highly E-selectiv...

The construction of an artificial scientist, a machine that discovers and describes the general rules governing a variety of complex environments, can be considered an important challenge for artificial general intelligence. Recently, a computational framework for scientific investigation has been postulated in the theory of compression-driven progress. Here, I propose an implementation of an a...

The present study explores the principles governing rules of musical style with respect to types of experiences derived from the different styles. The assumption is that the rules and experiences are related to each other on some universal level and that the types of experiences reflect aesthetic ideals of extra-musical frameworks (culture, era, region, etc.). Some of these ideals are related t...

The paper in this issue by Taylor reviews the experimental discovery of quarks in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS). Altarelli (1989) reviewed how quantum chromodynamics (QCD) provides the rules governing strong forces that hold quarks inside the nucleon. The remaining papers in this issue discuss the status of current issues on these important subjects. This makes me wonder what I am supposed to...

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The assessment of complex aspects of children's syntactic development can be carried out in a dialect-neutral fashion. The item types proposed for this purpose encompass wh-questions, passives, and articles, and test the child's understanding of implicit grammatical relations, the rules governing syntactic movement, and discourse linking. We present the rationale for the items and the specific ...

Interference laser spectroscopy was used to study the macrokinetics of absorption of carbon dioxide by aqueous solutions of chemisorbents. Chemisorption was shown to be a complex and multistage process. Its evolution included the occurrence of a diffusion-controlled chemical reaction close to the interphase boundary, the appearance of instability, and the development of convection in the liquid...