Anthony Downs assumed no false information, and no irrationality. Neither of these assumptions is realistic in politics. Adam Smith recognised the role of rhetoric (deliberative eloquence) in political debate. The significance of propaganda was recognised in the 1940s. Modern approaches to political processes, agenda setting and discourse analysis also emphasise persuasion. This paper begins by...

Bridging the gap: global disparity processing in the human 2 visual cortex 3 4 Benoit R. Cottereau 5 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 6 Suzanne P. McKee 7 Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA 8 Anthony M. Norcia 9 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 10 11 12 Corresponding Author: Benoit R. Cottereau 13 14 Adress: Department of Psychology | Jordan Hall, Buildi...

HE DISCOVERY OF PULSARS in 1967 is associated with the names of Anthony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, but the seeds of their achievement were sown long before during the T exciting era when radio astronomy developed from a specialist pursuit of physicists and electrical engineers into a key area of contemporary astronomy. After the Second World War, a number of university groups began the in...

“Mr. Turnbull had predicted evil consequences, . . . and was now doing the best in his power to bring about the verification of his own prophecies.” ANTHONY TROLLOPE _____________________________ A lecture given at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in Summer 1953, as part of a course on Developments and trends in contemporary British philosophy, organized by the British Council; originally published under...

From the *Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of medicine and New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111; the *Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02152; the OLaboratory of Medical Biochemistry, Rockefeller University, New York 10021; and the Departments of U Pharmacological Science and ~Medicinal Analytical Chemistry, Genentech, Inc., South ...

We analyze a general-equilibrium asset pricing model where a small subset of the consumers/investors have a short-run “urge to save”. That is, their attitude toward consumption in the long run is a standard one—they do place zero weight on consumption far enough out in the future—but their short-run effective rates of discount may be negative. Our model, which is an elaboration on the framework...

S-Adenosylmethionine decarboxylase is a key enzyme for the synthesis of polyamines in mammals, plants and many other species that use aminopropyltransferases for this pathway. It catalyses the formation of S-adenosyl-1(methyl th io)-3-propylamine (decarboxyla ted S-adenosylmethionine), which is used as the aminopropyl donor. This is the sole function of decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine. Its ...