revolution theoreticians have declared contending and approximately incompatible theories, caused in bewilderment among concerned field enthusiasts. as a result, some have intended to categorize these theories till reduce bewilderment, and make them easier to study. one of these theoreticians is jack goldstone who at first categorized theories of revolution into three generations. but after the...

Simple cells in the visual cortex respond to the precise position of oriented contours (Hubel and Wiesel, 1962). This sensitivity reflects the structure of the simple receptive field, which exhibits two sorts of antagonism between on and off inputs. First, simple receptive fields are divided into adjacent on and off subregions; second, within each subregion, stimuli of the reverse contrast evok...

paris polyphylla smith var. yunnanensis (liliaceae) is an important traditional medicinal plant of the yunnan province in china. however, the genomic information regarding this plant is limited. to further understand its molecular background, we conducted illumina hiseq 2000 second-generation sequencing of this plant species. approximately 30,198,679 reads with an average length of 202 bases we...

If our moral beliefs rest on a mistake, as error theorists claim, what should we do with them? According to Richard Joyce’s revolutionary fictionalism, pretend believe propositions in order keep the benefits thinking has for their preference satisfaction. This, he claims, frees theory from radical practical implications. In response, I argue that implementing fictionalism would not preserve pra...

“Big data” has been heralded as the agent of a third industrial revolution–one with raw materials measured in bits, rather than tons of steel or barrels of oil. Yet the industrial revolution transformed not just how firms made things, but the fundamental approach to value creation in industrial economies. To date, big data has not achieved this distinction. Instead, today’s successful big data ...