LCLF: Why another book about “nature versus nurture”? Doesn’t everyone now agree it’s both? JT: The nature/nurture debate is a funny thing. On the one hand, you’re right; it’s very common to hear someone say, “Of course it’s not nature versus nurture; it’s both nature and nurture.” On the other hand, we hear reports all the time about some new study that claims nature trumps nurture when it com...

The pleading burden that governs securities-fraud litigation is significantly higher than those standards that govern traditional civil cases. The heightened pleading burden applicable to securities cases has transformed the motion to dismiss into something like summary judgment. In fact, to contend with this heightened pleading burden, plaintiffs typically must spend more time in the prefiling...

In order to be raise the accuracy of the TAM network (Topographic Attentive Mapping network) structure, which is analogous to visual system, we need discuss how to provide it a simultaneous description of the receptive field. Aperture experiments are used for observing the mechanism of visual system. Nishina et al. claim that perceptual grouping strongly depends on the length of display time an...

A retrospective chart review of 257 patients who presented between January to March 1998, was conducted to identify the frequency of workers' compensation claim denial among patients who reported to Straub Clinic and Hospital. Results showed that 12.8% of claims were either "denied" or temporarily "denied pending investigation". Analysis of all the claims found that only 2% resulted in delayed ...