How the mass media cover scientific subjects matters in many ways, whether scientists like it or not. Stem cells, genetically modified organisms, cloning, the environmental or health implications of chemicals or climate change: whatever the subject, media coverage has helped to shape public perception and, through it, affected how science is translated into policy, most notably in regard to the...

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In this article, we have shown, for the add-point monad T, thepartial morphism category Set*is isomorphic to the Kleisli category SetT. Alsowe have proved that the category, SetT, of T-algebras is isomorphic to thecategory Set of pointed sets. Finally we have established commutative squaresinvolving these categories.

Web usage mining is a research field for searching potentially useful and valuable information from web log file. Web log file is a simple list of pages that users refer. Therefore, it is not easy to analyze user’s current interest field from web log file. This paper presents web usage mining method for finding users’ current interest based on Fuzzy category. We consider not only how many times...

Increased competition is making it difficult to distinguish products solely by attributes, creating room for cause-related marketing. In this study with a sample of 322 university students, we evaluated the changes in consumer attitudes toward cause and brand as consequences of Cause Brand Alliance (CBA), by using the product category as moderator. Four popular brands from two product categorie...

Deligne has defined a category which interpolates among the representations of the various symmetric groups. In this paper we show Deligne’s category admits a unique nontrivial family of modified trace functions. Such modified trace functions have already proven to be interesting in both low-dimensional topology and representation theory. We also introduce a graded variant of Deligne’s category...

The development and marketing of agricultural biotechnology applications has led to controversies over whether and how to regulate this new technology. The European Union has imposed severe restrictions on agricultural biotechnology, particularly in terms of approval and labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food. The United States has maintained a far more permissive approval po...