Although much has been written on this subject, there still seems to be considerable confusion in the literature concerning dissociations, double dissociations and what they really mean, especially when connectionist or neural network models are involved. In this paper I attempt to clarify matters by looking at the subject from the point of view of patterns of learning rates in neural network m...

Airway management in obese adults can be challenging, and much of the literature on this subject focuses on elective surgical cases, rather than acutely ill patients. In this article, we review the emergency department evaluation of the airway in obesity, discussing anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology. In addition, we describe techniques and devices used to improve intubating conditions in th...

Researchers have paid increasing attention to the core discussion network, the set of friends and family people turn to when discussing important matters. For nearly thirty years, social network researchers have argued that the network is composed of ego’s closest or most important alters. This assumption, however, has not been tested empirically. Using original data on an online representative...

Abstract Here, I take alethic views of understanding to be all that hold whether an explanation is true or false matters for provides understanding. then argue there (as yet) no naturalistic defence in cognitive science, because agreement about the correct descriptions content scientific explanations. use this claim provisional acceptance afactivism which view truth falsity cognition irrelevant...

The decline in the interest in ethical theory is first outlined, as a background to the author's discussion of principlism. The author's own stance, that of a communitarian philosopher, is then described, before the subject of principlism itself is addressed. Two problems stand in the way of the author's embracing principlism: its individualistic bias and its capacity to block substantive ethic...

human- environment interaction is among the subject matters explored by human ecology with the help of natural sciences based on anthropological and archaeological perspectives in an eclectic fashion. the present paper offers exploring the framework and concepts used in ecology, the terminology pertaining to and geographical boundaries of central plateau of iran and its northern part will be di...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to analyse the trends in scientific research on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies by applying bibliometric tools to the scientific literature published between 1973 and 2002. METHODS The data for the study were obtained from Medline database, in order to determine the volume of scientific output in the above period, the countries involved, the t...