We live in the era of rankings. Universities are being ranked, journals are being ranked, and researchers are being ranked. In this era of rankings, the value of researchers is measured in the number of their papers published, the citations they received, and the volume of grant income earned. Academia today is governed by one simple rule: more is better. The idea to reward those who are produc...

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1. Some philosophical problems are decidedly esoteric. It might be thought that certain counterexamples Larry Temkin and Stuart Rachels have offered to the transitivity of the better-than relation are prime instances. For the most compelling of these putative counterexamples rely on our evaluative judgments concerning the quality of hypothetical lives that last an incredibly long time. And if t...

Discrimination of quantity (magnitude) was investigated in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Male zebrafish chose to approach the location previously occupied by the larger in number between 2 groups of female conspecifics (no longer visible at test) in sets of 1 versus 2 items, and 2 versus 3 items, but failed at 3 versus 4 items; similarly, when tested with larger numbers, zebrafish succeeded with 2 v...

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles are characterized by their heterogeneity in composition, structure, and biological properties. In addition to the major structural protein apolipoprotein A1, HDL proteomes and lipidomes show great diversity. Such constituents presumably carry out the multitude of HDL functions, for example, reverse cholesterol transport, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, a...

Suppeshas developedacharacteristicandconceptuallyunifiedapproach to the theoriesof physicalgeometry andphysicalquantity, basedon ideas andformal techniques which he has also helped to develop within the representationaltheory ofmeasurement (RTM). These interrelatedideas, techniques and results are directly relevant to the philosophyof physics,butremainmostlyunknown withinthatcontext. HereIaimto...

Starting out with some intriguing parallels and differences between French beaucoup ‘a lot’ and souvent ‘often’, this paper develops an account of the distributional and semantic properties of four classes of adverbial expressions of quantity: frequency adverbs (souvent), relative degree adverbs (beaucoup), absolute degree adverbs ( un peu ‘a bit’) and x-times adverbs (trois fois ‘three times’)...

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