In this chapter I will give a overview of the role of time delays in understanding neural systems. The main focus will be on models of neural systems in terms of delay differential equations. Later in this section, I will discuss how such models arise. The goal of the chapter is two-fold: (1) to give the reader an introduction and guide to some methods available for understanding the dynamics o...

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Nurses routinely make judgments about the states of their patients and make decisions, choosing among interventions, in the care of their patients. Judgment and decision-making researchers, such as myself, study how these judgments and decisions are made, and when there is a need, we study how the accuracy and efficiency of such judgments and decisions can be improved. From my point of view, a ...

Aging is manifested by a progressive decline in vitality over time leading to death. Studies in budding yeast allow aging to be followed in individual pedigrees of cells, that is, those of mother cells, consequent to many rounds of cell division (Mortimer and Johnston 1959). These studies have led to the general conclusion that the silencing protein Sir2 is a limiting component of longevity; de...

The following paper is dealing with the topic of nations and nationalism. After giving a general overview of the mainstream work conducted regarding the national subject, the paper will in the first place focus on Bourdieu’s so called scholastic view which can be summarized as the bias between a scientific, theoretical reason and the practical reason that is applied by the social actors in the ...