Despite being a common disease, most primary care physicians in the United States underrecognize OSAHS; an estimated 80% of Americans with OSAHS are not diagnosed. Although its prevalence may vary in different populations and age groups, it has been estimated that OSA affects 24% and 9% of middle-aged men and women respectively (1). The prevalence of sleep apnea in young African Americans (<25 ...

I generalize a model of children strategizing where to live by Konrad et al. (2002) (KKLR) to include more variation in family size and to allow for uncertainty in how each family member behaves. The inclusion of uncertainty has large effects on the predictions of a KKLR-type model. I find that the KKLR model does not explain American data well, but an alternative model with the same reduced fo...

In "Brainshy: Non-neural theories of conscious experience," (this volume) Patricia Churchland considers three "non-neural" approaches to the puzzle of consciousness: 1) Chalmers' fundamental information, 2) Searle's "intrinsic" property of brain, and 3) Penrose-Hameroff quantum phenomena in microtubules. In rejecting these ideas, Churchland flies the flag of "neuralism." She claims that conscio...

In response to recent calls for further cross-disciplinary research on austerity and a deeper sociological understanding of the impact and aftermath of the economic crisis on individuals and societies, this article builds on extant austerity literature through an exploration of its effects on European men. Informed by theories of liminality and rites of passage, this qualitative investigation e...

Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) are hubs that mainly provide the switching infrastructure to interconnect networks and exchange traffic. While initial goal of IXPs was bring together residing in same city or country, thus keep local traffic local, this model is gradually shifting. Many connect without having physical presence at their infrastructure. This practice, called Remote Peering, changi...

“Always historicize!” Fredric Jameson calls this opening salvo from 1981’s The Political Unconscious the book’s “transhistorical imperative” and its “moral” (9). Is this, indeed, the most sacred of all critical commandments? The “thou shalt not kill” of literary studies (above all, perhaps, of American literary studies)? (Nietzsche might have called it, rather, the “thou shalt kill”: in his wor...

Different formal tools are useful for different purposes. For example, when it comes to modelling degrees of belief, probability theory is a better tool than classical logic; when it comes to modelling the truth of mathematical claims, classical logic is a better tool than probability theory. In this paper I focus on a widely used formal tool and argue that it does not provide a good model of a...