Parentage assignment is widely applied to studies on mating systems, population dynamics and natural selection. However, little is known about the consequence of assignment errors, especially when some parents are not sampled. We investigated the effects of two types of error in parentage assignment, failing to assign a true parent (type A) and assigning an untrue parent (type B), on an estimat...

P lato is commonly known in the history of philosophy as an initiator of a dualistic concept of body and soul that favors the soul at the expense of the body. By contrast, Nietzsche is known as the thinker who reversed the Platonic order between the “true” intelligible world and the “untrue” sensible world by reinscribing thinking in terms of intelligible ideas in a bodily activity. He is known...

Galactic mass consistent with luminous mass is obtained by fitting rotation curves (RC = tangential velocities vs. equatorial radius r) using Newtonian force models, or can be unambiguously calculated from RC data using a model based on spin. In contrast, mass exceeding luminous mass is obtained from multi-parameter fits using potentials associated with test particles orbiting in a disk around ...

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocols do not completely prevent malicious parties from cheating and disrupting the computation. A coalition of malicious parties can repeatedly cause the computation to abort or provide an input that does not correspond to reality. In this work, we augment MPC with two new properties to discourage cheating. The first of these is a strengthening of identi...

Confabulation is a mysterious adjunct of amnesia. It remains unexplained why some patients invent untrue stories in response to questions (provoked confabulations) or even spontaneously with no apparent motivation (spontaneous confabulations). Hypothesized mechanisms range from a desire to fill gaps in memory to a loss of the temporal context in memory. We examined the mechanisms of confabulati...

T hese refractive IOLs offer many advantages: They are more stable than any surface procedure, provide better visual optics than surface procedures, and offer the real ability to correct presbyopia. But they also have serious downsides: Patients often complain of glare, halo, and loss of contrast sensitivity. I consider them a high-wire act—when things go smoothly, they are great, but everythin...

VANET is an emerging mobile ad hoc network paradigm that facilitates vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. The most important application of the VANET is for driving safety. Road condition-awareness is critical for driving safety. Existing VANETbased systems usually assume drivers detect and report safety related road conditions, which however may be untrue because, dr...

A preprint of pulmonary metastasectomy in colorectal cancer (PulMiCC) was included the meta-analysis patients with by Ratnayake et al.1 The PulMiCC trial published full 93 randomized either to undergo surgical or not. There no crossover from control treatment arm and difference survival (hazard ratio 0.93, 95% confidence interval 0.56–1.56). (Figure 1) Although not significant, median 4-year fa...

Juntamente com a pandemia da COVID-19 surgiu uma infodemia, principalmente de fake news, gerando caos, desordem social e desinformação. Diante disso, o objetivo deste estudo foi realizar um diagnóstico sobre conduta acadêmica frente às news relacionadas à COVID-19, buscando associar perfil dos participantes pesquisa aspectos do consumo compartilhamento das news. O público-alvo neste foram ingre...