but are probably only deviations from some well recognized typical disease : the older form becoming rare, the variations more frequent." This is in a great measure true with regard to fevers, which have been divided and subdivided into so-called different forms, when in reality they are only deviations from the typical disease. Thus, systematic writers describe a variety of fevers manifested b...

A differentiation of instrumental responses to auditory location stimuli using the Konorski Test was investigated. Each stimulus consisted of two components separated by intrastimulus interval. The components were click series presented from four loudspeakers situated in front of the animal, on horizontal and vertical axes. Each correct response, performed to the second component of positive st...

We investigated the development of study- and work-related commitments in 28 psychology students during their bachelor years. Based on seven measurements of exploration and commitments (over a period of three-and-a-half years) we found the theoretically expected information-oriented, normative and diffuse trajectories. In addition, the longitudinal data allowed us to distinguish between a stabl...

The structure and dynamics of food webs are largely dependent upon interactions among consumers and their resources. However, interspecific interactions such as intraguild predation and interference competition can also play a significant role in the stability of communities. The role of antagonistic/synergistic interactions among predators has been largely ignored in food web theory. These mec...

Reproductive skew theory has not heretofore formally addressed one of the most important questions in evolutionary biology: How can whole-life sterile castes evolve? We construct a transactional skew model investigating under what conditions a subordinate in a multimember group is favored to develop into a morphologically specialized worker caste. Our model demonstrates that, contrary to former...

We develop the basic elements of a Cauchy theory on the complex Levi-Civita field, which constitutes the smallest algebraically closed nonArchimedean extension of the complex numbers. We introduce a concept of analyticity based on differentiation, and show that it leads to local expandability in power series. We show that analytic functions can be integrated over suitable piecewise smooths path...

This study examined how children's intuitions and informants' expertise influence children's trust in informants' claims. Three- to 8-year-olds (N = 192) watched videos in which experts (animal/biology experts or artifact/physics experts) made either intuitively plausible or counterintuitive claims about obscure animals or artifacts. Claims fell either within or beyond experts' domains of exper...

Researchers use constructs from the field of electrical engineering for the modelling and analysis of biological systems, but few exploit parallels between electrical and biological circuits for simulation purposes. The authors discuss the development of BioXyce, a circuit-based biological simulation platform that uses Xyce, a large-scale electrical circuit simulator, as its simulation engine. ...

Taking user’s emotion in music retrieval and recommendation as application background, this paper presents a method to extract the features associated with music emotion from the existing physical features. Focusing on degree of stability, differentiation and relativity, the method simplifies the existing multidimensional features and extracts the music physical features associated with emotion...