It never quite seems right to place Russian artistic culture along the same lines of development as those in the West. Without endlessly musing over the involvement of some inconceivable Russian soul or national character, this paper aims to create a narrative for the development of contemporary Russian art exhibition. By looking at the historical and contemporary societal conditions surroundin...

Abstract Buyers are often active on multiple digital platforms, while gatekeeper platforms can force sellers contractually to use one platform exclusively. This paper considers the welfare effects of such exclusivity clauses for buyers, and in a duopoly with seller membership fee. A setting partially multihoming buyers is compared singlehoming sellers. It shown that predominately harm total wel...

Motivation Mutual exclusivity is a widely recognized property of many cancer drivers. Knowledge about these relationships can provide important insights into cancer drivers, cancer-driving pathways and cancer subtypes. It can also be used to predict new functional interactions between cancer driving genes and uncover novel cancer drivers. Currently, most of mutual exclusivity analyses are prefo...

We present evidence from two experiments demonstrating that the Hindi focus particle -hii is sensitive to variable scalar endpoints, and we relate these findings to previous work on only and modality to unify the taxonomy of exclusive particles with formalized notions of speaker expectations. Only, and other exclusives in English, can appeal to a set of rank-ordered scalar alternatives. Such pa...

In two experiments, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to examine the neural correlates of a visual illusion effect in Müller-Lyer illusion tasks (illusion stimuli) and baseline tasks (no-illusion stimuli). The behavioral data showed that the illusion stimuli indeed yielded an illusion effect. Scalp ERP analysis revealed its neurophysiological substrate: the Müller-Lyer illusion ta...