Does evolutionary theory have implications about the existence of supernatural entities? This question concerns the logical relationships that hold between the theory of evolution and different bits of metaphysics. There is a distinct question that I also want to address; it is epistemological in character. Does the evidence we have for evolutionary theory also provide evidence concerning the e...

Motivation is given for the construction of an absolutely complete theory of spatial regions. Additional axioms for the RCC theory (Randell, Cui and Cohn 1992) are suggested to restrict the class of models satisfying this theory. Speciic problems addressed are the character-isation of dimension and the provision of adequate existential axioms.

Resource competition is thought to drive divergence in resource use traits (character displacement) by generating selection favoring individuals able to use resources unavailable to others. However, this picture assumes nutritionally substitutable resources (e.g., different prey species). When species compete for nutritionally essential resources (e.g., different nutrients), theory predicts tha...

In this work, two different classes of polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) systems have been investigated in order to characterize the amount of polyradical character and to localize the specific regions of chemical reactivity: (a) the non-Kekulé triangular structures phenalenyl, triangulene and a π-extended triangulene system with high-spin ground state and (b) PAHs based on zethrenes, p-quinodimet...

Based on our recently published article Fermionic Expressions for the Characters of cp,1 Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories in the journal Nuclear Physics B, fermionic sum representations for the characters of the W(2, 2p−1, 2p−1, 2p−1) series of triplet algebras are obtained, providing further evidence that these logarithmic theories constitute well-defined rational conformal field theories....

The solvability of monomial groups is a well-known result in character theory. Certain properties of Artin L-series suggest a generalization of these groups, namely to such groups where every irreducible character has some multiple which is induced from a character φ of U with solvable factor group U/ker(φ). Using the classification of finite simple groups, we prove that these groups are also s...

A vigorous research literature focused on early childhood conscience, prosocial behavior, and empathy— and also theory of mind, emotion understanding, and social cognition—has important implications for moral development theory. It offers a new understanding of the early conceptual, affective, and relational foundations of moral development. In addition, it provides the opportunity to create a ...