Cascade. 2021. Eugene, Or: viii + pp. 137.ISBN 978-1-7252-5731-3

Deepak Srivastava’s group at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California San Francisco, reported in the August 6 issue of the journal Cell that to make heart muscle cells, all you need are three factors and some fibroblasts. But is it really that easy?

Mixed criteria are linear combinations of standard criteria which cannot be represented as standard criteria. Linear combinations of total discounted and average rewards as well as linear combinations of total discounted rewards with di erent discount factors are examples of mixed criteria. We discuss the structure of optimal policies and algorithms for their computation for problems with and w...

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Children’s language acquisition is normally explained either in biological, nativist or in functionalist and usage based terms. The main thesis of this article is that rhetorical terminology introduced by Aristotle is fruitful for our understanding of the development process children go through when learning language. Introducing rhetoric to descriptions of children’s language acquisition presu...

The security of gas supply is a crucially important question for the economy of any country. South-eastern Australia has a sophisticated network of gas pipelines that connect the production sites on the ocean shelf and in the inner part of the continent with the major consumers, which are the state capital cities (Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney and Brisbane) and the regional industrial tow...