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Neural correlates of processing sentences and compound words in Chinese
Talat Bulut, Yi Hui Hung, Ovid Tzeng, Denise H. Wu
Graduate Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Sentence reading involves multiple linguistic operations including processing of lexical and compositional semantics, and determining structural and grammatical relationships among words. Previous studies on Indo-European languages have associated left anterior temporal lobe (aTL) and left interior frontal gyrus (IFG) with reading sentences compared to reading unstructured word lists. To examine whether these brain regions are also involved in reading a typologically distinct language with limited morphosyntax and lack of agreement between sentential arguments, an FMRI study was conducted to compare passive reading of Chinese sentences, unstructured word lists and disconnected character lists that are created by only changing the order of an identical set of characters. Similar to previous findings from other languages, stronger activation was found in mainly left-lateralized anterior temporal regions (including aTL) for reading sentences compared to unstructured word and character lists. On the other hand, stronger activation was identified in left posterior temporal sulcus for reading unstructured words compared to unstructured characters. Furthermore, reading unstructured word lists compared to sentences evoked stronger activation in left IFG and left inferior parietal lobule. Consistent with the literature on Indo-European languages, the present results suggest that left anterior temporal regions subserve sentence-level integration, while left IFG supports restoration of sentence structure. In addition, left posterior temporal sulcus is associated with morphological compounding. Taken together, reading Chinese sentences engages a common network as reading other languages, with particular reliance on integration of semantic constituents.
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Bulut, T., Hung, Y. H., Tzeng, O., & Wu, D. H. (2017). Neural correlates of processing sentences and compound words in Chinese. PLoS ONE, 12(12), [e0188526]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188526
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Can we predict the yield of the new James Bond movie Spectre?
29 Oct Can we predict the yield of the new James Bond movie Spectre?
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Generations have grown up with it. The adventures of James Bond. Now the latest edition of the movie has gone in premier, it is a good time for us to do what we do best: Look at the facts. Which of the Bond-movies got the highest box-office results? And what are the expectations for future Bond films?
At Hillstar we are all fans of the movies, but we also love data. So we put all the box office results of all James Bond movies over the years in a row. In the overview you see above, we show the actors and the number of movies they have played in. Roger Moore and Sean Connery have been Bond most frequently. But the highest yield ever is held by Daniel Craig. While many James Bond fans do not think Daniel Craig is the best 'Bond'. According to experts the films is now more about the action and less about charming as many ladies as possible. That change makes Bond more attractive for the Asian market.
Conclusions about the facts
We have put some simple figures on a list in Microsoft Excel 2016 (predictive analytics) and have made a prediction on the basis of the Worldwide Box Office results of future Bond movies. Spectre scores higher than most films before, but it is still far behind Skyfall. At Hillstar we are confident that the new 'Bond' will surpass the previous anyway. Critics think Spectre is the best Bond film ever. So predicting the future is not only about putting numbers in a row and draw the line. Hillstar Business Intelligence therefore always determines a strategy to bring all environmental variables together to ensure that you are not faced with surprises. Just like James basically, though he sometimes used a bit too much brute force.
The movie will be in premiere worldwide so from now on we can make our own judgment. To get you to warmed up a bit before you visit the film, we've included the trailer.
Not a Bond fan, but still charmed by our love for data? See what companies we have provided insight into their own data. Fortunately, there was often more data available and we could also add dimensions to it.
It is now more than 50 years ago Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond is deceased. He wrote many of the stories in Jamaica, where he lived. That might also explain why many of the films take place in exotic places. Fleming's time in the Secret Service of the United Kingdom, made him familiar with the many tricks that come back in his books. Fleming was an avid bird watcher and could fulfill that passion perfectly at Jamaica. To find out what bird he saw, he had a book about birds and their names. The book is written by a man called James Bond. This particular fact has already been entered as a nod in the film Die Another Day, where James introduces himself to Jinx (Halle Berry) as an ornithologist or a bird expert.
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A Facebook outage affecting users around the globe appears to have waned after at least fourteen hours from Wednesday into the wee hours of Thursday.
At 12:41 a.m. ET, Instagram posted a tweet that said, "Anddddd… we're back" with a gif of Oprah Winfrey.
Facebook has denied rumors that the mass outage was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attack — a type of hack in which attackers flood a company's network.
"Our engineers have now identified and implemented a fix for the issues we experienced yesterday," Facebook said in a statement. "Access to our family of apps and services is now being restored, but our systems are still recovering. We will share an update when our systems are fully back up and running for everyone.
The outage was the biggest interruption ever to Facebook's services and served as a cautious reminder to those who rely on the network for business and revenue.
Around 12:30 p.m., Facebook released an updated statement on Twitter, saying that the outage had been caused by a "server configuration change."
"Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services," Facebook stated. "We've now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We're very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone's patience
Users across the internet are reporting that the social media site, Facebook, is down in various ways Wednesday afternoon, especially those using it on desktop. Some mobile apps seem to be working.
Thousands of users say they are experiencing outages on Facebook at this time. According to downdetector.com, users began reporting outages just before noon. It's worldwide, but appears to be hitting the U.S. and Europe particularly hard.
Facebook released a statement around 2 p.m., after many users had been experiencing the outage for around 2 hours, stating, "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."
Later, at 3:04 p.m., Facebook issued an updated statement, reading, "We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack."
A "DDoS" attack refers to a "denial of service" cyber-attack in which an individual or entity would overwhelm servers to block the public from accessing a certain page or network.
For our newsroom, the outage has been preventing any new posts to our Facebook page or responses to user comments. Many people report a similar problem in which they can see their timelines but cannot make posts
Others are unable to login to either Facebook or Instagram, and Facebook now gives an error message stating that "Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes."
Of course, that message has been the same for hours now.
Some Instagram users can see their feed, but not others, and everyone is having trouble posting anything.
Reports are coming in not just up and down the East Coast, but across the country and internationally as well, affecting mass quantities of people. Many report being unable to post, share, or like. Others report zero problems while someone directly connected to them has an issue.
The outage is also affecting Messenger. WhatsApp is in the Facebook family of products too, but it seems to be working.
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With tropical waters, and plenty of stunning coastline, the Northern Territory is home to some of the best warm water fishing in Australia. Throw in the numerous rivers and billabongs for good measure, and it's no surprise that Darwin, in particular, draws fishing enthusiasts from all over the world. Here are our favourite fishing spots near Darwin.
Keeping it close and local, Bayview Marina is a fantastic spot for land fishing just a few minutes from town.
If you're looking for Mangrove Jack and Golden Snapper, then the lock and the rock wall are your best bets. Fish are known to crowd the area at the large drains at the back of the lock, feeding on bait fish, so head there for some easy pickings.
Barramundi can be found occasionally, usually at night when they're attracted by bait fish that move towards the surface, attracted by the lights.
With plenty to see, do, and eat, in the area, Bayview Marina is an incredibly popular spot – so get in early!
The name says it all! Another popular land-based, salt water fishing spot, Fishermans Wharf is located at the Darwin Fish Market just down from the marina, and offers up great barramundi fishing.
The wharf is a hub for the local fishing and pearl markets, so you know you're in good company when you hit the jetty!
Locals say that dropping a line at low tide is your best bet, and that the barramundi are best found at the end of the jetty in the murkier waters. In the cooler months, you'll find the area teeming with bream.
If you don't have any luck yourself, you're already perfectly placed near the fish market so you needn't go home empty handed. There's also plenty of fish and chips within walking distance for a seafood meal on the go!
While there are strict no fishing restrictions for the marina at Cullen Bay, the floating pontoon outside the marina is very popular with anglers looking to hook a barra. Casting near the lock at run out tide, or at the mouth during incoming tide, will give you the best chance.
Barramundi aren't the only fish swimming at Cullen Bay, those dropping a line can also expect to find Mangrove Jack, Trevally, Queenfish and Golden Snapper.
Cullen Bay is perfect for those of all skill and experience levels, and with some world class fine dining nearby, the area is incredibly popular and well known internationally as a "must see" for anyone visiting Darwin. With Seafood on Cullen and La Beach Restaurants just a short walk from the jetty, you wont get home with an empty stomach!
Just twenty minutes north of Darwin, Dripstone Cliffs is fantastic for dry season fishing if you're looking for bream and whiting. Barramundi are less prevalent here, but can still be found – mostly in summer.
A place of significant historical importance, the Dripstone Cliffs are stunning both in their natural beauty, and for the fascinating WWII observation posts that are still present. Installed as part of a coastal defence strategy developed to help defend Darwin, in anticipation of a sea and land based invasion by the Japanese during WWII, the observation posts are easily accessible and very visible.
The combination of these points of historical interest, the fantastic potential for bush walks, as well as a great fishing experience, make Dripstone Cliffs a great place to take teens and older children for a day out.
A fantastic spot for fishing and crabbing, the Rapid Creek Footbridge is always popular with anglers looking to nab a barramundi.
The fishing is best at neap tide, and after heavy rains, when the nutrients rich water has washed through the mangroves, drawing in aquatic life for their lunch. Trevally and queenfish are also prevalent in the area, and make for easy catching regardless of your skill level.
The area can get pretty busy – drawing in locals and tourists alike – so you will have to get in early, but with the natural beauty of a place like Rapid Creek, there's plenty to enjoy about the area!
Something that makes Rapid Creek pretty special as far as Darwin's fishing spots go, is it's inclusive design. A specially constructed wheelchair accessible fishing platform – the Peter Mahoney Fishing Platform – which stands alongside the bridge, features accessible parking bays, solar lights to illuminate the area, and fold down tables that accommodate wheelchair using anglers.
The platform is also fitted with adjustable panels to allow casting from a low height. The panels are kept locked for safety associated with the reduced barrier height, however keys to unlock the adjustable panels are available free of charge by calling the City of Darwin's accessibility office on (08) 8930 0645.
While fishing in Darwin is a fantastic experience, it's important to remember that the Northern Territory's waterways are home to both fresh and saltwater crocodiles. For this reason, it's important to never clean fish on or near the waters edge, and to not wade or stand in water for longer than is absolutely necessary. While there are crocodile warning signs posted along various waterways, and crocs are most prevalent during the warmer months, it should never be assumed that it is safe to enter the water at any time of the year.
If you've enjoyed our guide to Darwin fishing spots, and want to check out our fishing guides to other Australian cities, check them out here.


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October 20, 2001 - by Seminoles.com
No. 17 FSU Looks For First-Ever Winning Season In ACC
WInston-Salem, NC –
When the 17th-ranked Seminole soccer team takes the field Saturday night against the Demon Deacons (6-5-1, 2-2-0), they will once again be chasing history. Florida State (10-4-0, 3-1-0) has never had a winning record in conference play and need just one victory in its last three ACC matches to lock-up its first-ever winning season since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference. While getting to four wins is a major accomplishment, the 2001 Seminoles have the opportunity to accomplish even more. With two wins in its last three ACC matches, FSU could finish the season as the No. 2 team in the nation's premier soccer conference.
"Tonight might be one of the biggest conference games of the year if you look at where both of these teams are in the standings," said head coach Patrick Baker. "We have the possibility of moving to 4-1 and assuring ourselves of the program's first winning season ever in the ACC. Wake Forest is 2-2 in the conference and a loss would drop them to .500 overall and 2-3 in the conference."
It won't be easy for Florida State to secure that fourth conference win against the Demon Deacons. The Seminoles have only won two ACC road games in the seven-year history of the program and have never won a conference game in the state of North Carolina. On top of that, the Demon Deacons have posted a 3-1-0 record at Spry Stadium since dropping their first two home games of the season to No. 3 Santa Clara and No. 5 Portland.
"Wake Forest is one of the most talented teams we will face all season," said Baker. "They are very good in possession and individually they solve pressure very well. They have a very good understanding of how to possess the ball and combine. They seem to be struggling a little scoring goals but it is senior night for them and there will be a lot of emotion we must withstand. I expect another great 90 minutes of soccer but hopefully like Clemson, Duke and NC State we will find a way to come out on top."
Florida State and Wake Forest have played five common opponents in 2001 (Santa Clara, Portland, NC State, North Carolina and Clemson) with the Seminoles having a 2-3 record against that group and WFU winning just once. Wake Forest has a combined score of 2-5 against that group while FSU has been outscored 7-14 in those five matches.
"They have played a number of the best teams in the country extremely close and many of those teams have been teams we've faced also," said Baker. "The difference in goals is much more favorable on Wake's side. It will be a daunting task for us tonight. We not only will be fighting a good Wake Forest team but we will also be fighting history."
The Seminoles return home Thursday, October 25 at 7:00 p.m. to face the University of Miami in the team's second-to-last home game of the 2001 regular season. The Hurricanes have been ranked in the top 25 for most of the season and FSU will have the opportunity to extend some amazing records at the Seminole Soccer Complex. Florida State has won 14 of its last 15 games against in-state opponents, have not lost a home game to a non-conference opponent in 16 consecutive matches and have the opportunity to move to 7-0-0 at home and possibly become the first FSU squad to go undefeated at home for an entire season. Admission to all regular season games at the Seminole Soccer Complex is free. For more information please visit www.seminoles.com.
ACC Showdown Pits No. 17 FSU And No.19 Wake Forest Saturday
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Q: SIMD (SSE) instruction for division in GCC I'd like to optimize the following snippet using SSE instructions if possible:
/*
 * the data structure
 */
typedef struct v3d v3d;
struct v3d {
    double x;
    double y;
    double z;
} tmp = { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 };

/*
 * the part that should be "optimized"
 */
tmp.x /= 4.0;
tmp.y /= 4.0;
tmp.z /= 4.0;

Is this possible at all?

A: Is tmp.x *= 0.25; enough?
Note that for SSE instructions (in case that you want to use them) it's important that:
1) all the memory access is 16 bytes alighed
2) the operations are performed in a loop
3) no int <-> float or float <-> double conversions are performed
4) avoid divisions if possible

A: I've used SIMD extension under windows, but have not yet under linux. That being said you should be able to take advantage of the DIVPS SSE operation which will divide a 4 float vector by another 4 float vector. But you are using doubles, so you'll want the SSE2 version DIVPD. I almost forgot, make sure to build with -msse2 switch.
I found a page which details some SSE GCC builtins. It looks kind of old, but should be a good start.
http://ds9a.nl/gcc-simd/

A: The intrinsic you are looking for is _mm_div_pd. Here is a working example which should be enough to steer you in the right direction:
#include <stdio.h>

#include <emmintrin.h>

typedef struct
{
    double x;
    double y;
    double z;
} v3d;

typedef union __attribute__ ((aligned(16)))
{
    v3d a;
    __m128d v[2];
} u3d;

int main(void)
{
    const __m128d vd = _mm_set1_pd(4.0);
    u3d u = { { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 } };

    printf("v (before) = { %g %g %g }\n", u.a.x, u.a.y, u.a.z);

    u.v[0] = _mm_div_pd(u.v[0], vd);
    u.v[1] = _mm_div_pd(u.v[1], vd);

    printf("v (after) = { %g %g %g }\n", u.a.x, u.a.y, u.a.z);

    return 0;
}

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Richard D. Alexander
The life's work of a pioneering evolutionary biologist
Festschrifts + Commentary
Evolution & Human Behavior special issue
Summers-Crespi volume
HBES Award
Two main compilations have been published that are aimed at honoring and advancing RDA's thought and work: a 2005 special issue of Evolution and Human Behavior, and a 2013 volume entitled Human Social Evolution edited by Kyle Summers and Bernard Crespi.
Special Issue of Evolution & Human Behavior
In 2005 the journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society released its largest issue to date, a collection of papers by students and friends of RDA on aspects of their own research that were inspired by his ideas. Introducing the issue is an overview by William Irons on the ways in which RDA was advancing our understanding of the evolution of human behavior and psychology. Below are the contents of that issue, each article of which can be downloaded by clicking on the reference.
[PDF] Irons, W. 2005. How has evolution shaped human behavior? Richard Alexander's contribution to an important question. Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 1-9.
[PDF] Flinn, M. V., Geary, D. C. & Ward, C. V. 2005. Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence. Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 10-46.
[PDF] Lahti, D. C. & Weinstein, B. S. 2005. The better angels of our nature: group stability and the evolution of moral tension. Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 47-63.
[PDF] Low, B. S. 2005. Women's lives there, here, then, now: a review of women's ecological and demographic constraints cross-culturally. Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 64-87.
[PDF] Nesse, R. M. 2005. Natural selection and the regulation of defenses – A signal detection analysis of the smoke detector principle. Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 88-105.
[PDF] Summers, K. 2005. The evolutionary ecology of despotism. Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 106-135.
Summers & Crespi volume: Human Social Evolution: The Foundational Works of Richard D. Alexander
In 2013, biologists Kyle Summers (East Carolina University) and Bernard Crespi (Simon Fraser University), both of them erstwhile students and longtime friends of RDA, published an ingenious collection. Fifteen topics on which RDA made important contributions (4 of which lay the foundations for an understanding of human social evolution and 11 of which deal explicitly with it), are each represented by one classic RDA paper or lengthy excerpt. As RDA had a penchant for publishing ideas opportunistically without much thought to how easily people might access them, such a compendium is valuable just for its own sake. But what makes this volume amazing is that Summers and Crespi assembled colleagues and former students of RDA who have professional interests in these same areas. Each of these scientists has contributed a chapter designed to be paired with one of those RDA pieces. In these introductions or companion pieces, the authors describe the contemporary state of the field in the light of RDA's work, drawing clear lines between his ideas and the important questions of today's science.
This book can be purchased from Amazon (here), and from Oxford University Press (here).
Introduction – Kyle Summers and Bernard Crespi
Part I – General Foundations
Chapter 1: Insect Behavior & Evolution
Introduction by Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Excerpt from Alexander, R. D. 1969. Comparative animal behavior and systematics. In: Systematic Biology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Systematics (Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1967). National Academy of Sciences Publication 1962: 494-517.
Chapter 2: Cooperation
Introduction by Steven Frank, University of California at Irvine.
Excerpt from: Alexander, R.D. 1986. The Biology of Moral Systems. New York, Aldine Press.
Chapter 3: Eusociality in Naked Mole Rats
Introduction by Paul Sherman, Cornell University.
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D., Noonan, K.M. and Crespi, B.J. 1991. The Evolution of Eusociality. In P. Sherman, J. Jarvis and R.D. Alexander (eds). The Biology of the Naked Mole Rat: 3-44. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Chapter 4: Parent-offspring Conflict and Manipulation
Introduction by David Queller, Washington University.
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. 1974. The evolution of social behavior. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 5:325-383.
Part II – Human Social Evolution
Chapter 5: Biology and Culture
Introduction by Mark Flinn, University of Missouri
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. Evolution and culture. In Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: an Anthropological Perspective. N. Chagnon and W.G. Irons (eds). Pp 59-78. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press.
Chapter 6: Intergroup Competition and Within-group Cooperation
Introduction by Bobbi Low, University of Michigan.
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. and Tinkle, D.W. 1968. Review of On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz and The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey. Bioscience 18: 245-248.
Chapter 7: Kinship, Parental Care, and Human Societies
Introduction by Beverly Strassmann, University of Michigan.
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. and Noonan, K.M. 1979. Concealment of Ovulation, parental care, and human social evolution. In N.A. Chagnon and W.G. Irons (eds). Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective. 436-453. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press.
Chapter 8: Human Childhood
Introduction by Paul Turke, University of Michigan.
Altriciality: Why are human babies helpless? In Alexander, R.D. 1990. How Did Humans Evolve? Reflections on a Uniquely Unique Species. Univ. Mich. Zool. Special
Publication 1: 1-38.
Chapter 9: Indirect Reciprocity
Introduction by Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna.
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. 1986. The Biology of Moral Systems. New York, Aldine Press.
Chapter 10: The Evolution of Intelligence
Introduction by Robin Dunbar, Oxford University.
Alexander, R.D. Evolution of the Human Psyche 1989. In P. Mellars and C. Stringer (eds). The Human Revolution. Behavioral and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans: pp. 455-513. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Chapter 11: Evolution of Morality
Introduction by David Lahti, City University of New York.
Alexander, R.D. Biology and the Moral Paradoxes. Journal of Biological Structures 5:389-395.
Chapter 12: Evolution and Humor
Introduction by Stanton Braude, Washington University.
Alexander, R.D. Ostracism and Indirect Reciprocity: The Reproductive Significance of Humor. 1986. Ethology and Sociobiology 7: 253-270.
Chapter 13: Ecological Constraints and Human Cooperation
Introduction by Laura Betzig, University of Michigan.
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D., Noonan, K.M. and Crespi, B.J. 1991. The Evolution of Eusociality. In P. Sherman, J. Jarvis and R.D. Alexander (eds). The Biology of the Naked Mole Rat: pp. 3-44. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Chapter 14: Evolution and Religion
Introduction by William Irons, Northwestern University.
Religion, Evolution and the Quest for Global Harmony – Original essay by RDA for this volume.
Chapter 15: Evolution and the Arts
Introduction by Kyle Summers, East Carolina University & Bernard Crespi, Simon Fraser University.
Excerpt from Alexander, R.D. 2003. Evolutionary Selection and the Nature of Humanity. Chapter 15. In: V. Hosle and Ch. Illies (eds). Darwinism and Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press.
HBES Distinguished Scientific Award for Lifetime Contribution to Evolution and Human Behavior
In 2008, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society awarded RDA with this lifetime achievement award at their annual meeting, in Kyoto, Japan. Here is the announcement of this award, including a brief explanation of RDA's contributions to the field, as printed in the Winter 2008 issue of the HBES Newsletter.
RDA passed away peacefully on August 20, 2018, at 88 years old. Here is a transcript of his obituary (from the Dignity Memorial website), which was published in the Ann Arbor News on August 23, 2018.
A professional remembrance of his life and work was published in the official journal of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society, which he co-founded:
[PDF] Kyle Summers, David Lahti, Stanton Braude, Beverly Strassmann, and Joan Strassmann. 2019. Obituary: The nine lives of Richard D. Alexander. Evolution and Human Behavior 40:133-139.
A Celebration of Life Memorial was held on April 27, 2019, attended by his family, friends, former students, and colleagues. Here is the announcement.
RDA at his farm with one of his (hundreds of) carved walking sticks, 2017
Articles Showcasing RDA's Work:
[PDF] 1963. Singing crickets and periodical cicadas. Research News 14(5), 6 pp. Office of Research Administration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
[PDF] 1974. Evolution and behavior. Research News 25(5), 18 pp. Office of Research Administration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
[PDF] 1978. Evolutionary biology called key to old riddle. Ann Arbor News, November 23, p.A-6.
[PDF] Stanton Braude. 1997. The predictive power of evolutionary biology and the discovery of the naked mole-rat. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 17(4):12-15. An unpublished addendum that tabulates all of the relevant predictions is here.
Podcasts Showcasing RDA's Ideas:
Evolution Can't Explain The Arts, Can It? Kyle Summers discusses the ideas of Richard Alexander, what evolutionary theory has to tell us about the arts, and the evolutionary ecology of despotism. Biological Realist Podcast, Michael McConkey. 2016. [Link to audio file MP3 (50MB) or online at YouTube].
Humans: Our Own Hostile Force Of Nature? Mark Flinn discusses the contributions of Richard Alexander to the evolutionary theory of human sociality. Biological Realist Podcast, Michael McConkey. 2016. [Audio file MP3 (46MB) or online at YouTube].
RDA did not often publish abstracts of presentations for which there are no accompanying publications with him as an author. No attempt has been made to find published abstracts, and in most cases they are probably not of lasting interest.
[PDF] Dunning, D. Covalt & Richard D. Alexander. 1971. Courtship in Magicicada septendecim. Ecological Society of America 52 (1):57-58. This work became the basis of a publication, part of the continuing story of speciation and maintenance of reproductive isolation in periodical cicadas that was originally established by RDA and colleagues: Dunning, D. Covalt, John A. Byers, & C. Dwight Zanger. 1979. Courtship in two species of periodical cicadas, Magicicada septendecim and Magicicada cassini. Animal Behaviour 27:1073-1090 [PDF]. In the Acknowledgements to this paper the following text appears: "We thank Dr. Richard D. Alexander, with whom the senior author worked on Brood X in Michigan in 1970. Dr. Alexander was most generous of time and research space for a novice cicada person and provided an exciting introduction to work on these animals. He also read and criticized an early draft of this paper."
[PDF] Alexander. R. D. 1972. Reproductive competition and the evolution of sociality. American Society of Zoologists 12:648. This is RDA's first published elaboration of his parental manipulation theory, which would form a large part of his 1974 papers, "The evolution of social behavior", Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 5: 352-383 [PDF]; and "Evolution of sterile castes in the social insects: Kin selection or parental manipulation?", Florida Entomologist 57(1): 32 [PDF]. From a historical perspective a striking feature of this abstract is that, as can be seen in the digital scan, it immediately follows Robert Trivers' (characteristically brief) abstract on the same topic, entitled "Mother-offspring conflict". Trivers' work would eventually be developed into one of the most highly cited articles in the evolutionary study of behavior: Robert Trivers. 1974. Parent-offspring conflict. American Zoologist 14:249-264 [PDF]. For decades following this conference, Trivers would refer to his difference with RDA on this topic, and insist that RDA had neglected the offspring's interests in representing the conflict unilaterally as parental manipulation. However, RDA's ARES paper notes that neither Trivers nor anyone else has determined who wins in a parent-offspring conflict scenario, and proposes that "genes which reduce the mother's reproduction by causing competitive interactions among embryos in the uterus cannot spread regardless of their advantage to the embryos possessing them". Apparently neither the authors nor anyone else has resolved this theoretical disagreement since these two back-to-back abstracts first appeared.
[PDF] Alexander, R. D. 1976. The evolution of social behavior. In The Bicentennial: Learn From The Past – Learn For The Future. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Southeastern Michigan Junior Science And Humanities Symposium. February 21-22, 1976. Pp. 3-4.
A pastel of RDA whose origin is uncertain– perhaps created by an undergraduate student from Japan. Courtesy of Nancy Alexander.
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Casio Europe has launched the Exilim EX-ZS30 featuring a 20.1 MP CCD sensor. It comes with a a 6x 26-156mm equiv. optical zoom lens and a 2.7 inch LCD. The camera includes beginner-friendly features include a Premium Auto mode and a set of eight Art shot filters. The Z320 will be available silver, black, purple, white, and pink at a price to be confirmed.
Encased in a high-quality stainless steel body, the new model has a CCD with an effective resolution of 20.1 megapixels and a wide-angle 26mm, 6x optical zoom lens. With the new EX-ZS30, Casio has packaged outstanding performance in all the basic photographic functions in a camera that is extraordinarily simple to use, even for beginners. Anyone can easily take fun and beautiful photos using this stylish digital camera built with advanced imaging functions.
I wonder why some people are so outraged to see the details of a camera they would never buy anyway. Guess what...some people are going to buy small sensor cameras. And many of those people want more megapixels. And some of those people will also want bright colors.
Not for you? Then move on. When your favorite company produces a camera that you would otherwise buy but it has way too many megapixels for you (and you're too lazy to go into the menu and turn it to a lower megapixel setting or think the interpolation to fewer megapixels will somehow destroy your image), then definitely feel free to rage as much as you like.
These look like generic P&S cameras. They could be made by Vivitar or Polaroid, or whatever factory in China grinds them out.
That writing on the front advertising the megapixel count is really impressive. And so 2003.
Guess what. This IS a generic P&S camera, which some non-professionals looking for a relatively cheap pocket camera might actually buy and might - though this might be shocking - enjoy.
I know that you are completely taken aback by the adjective "stylish", but seeing as how this a press release and not a review, "stylish" is probably seen as more appropriate for a press release than "generic". Yes, I know. Marketers can be devious sometimes.
Also, many things of high quality are made in China - iPhones for one (although I'm an Android guy...and many of those are also made in China...maybe even in the same factory). I know that "China" is synonymous with "low quality", but a factory built to Japanese specifications with Japanese robots and a strict, monitored assembly line might in fact produce things the same in China as it would in Japan. I fail to see how just being on Chinese soil makes all of these identical machines function worse.
Instead of joining m43, they are still fighting the lost battle.
More megapixels and more zoom is what the average joe wants, regardless if they know what it means. Believe it or not, some people don't spend their lives reading about digital cameras and analysing specifications of new cameras on the internet. If Casio actually listened to some of these comments, they wouldn't be in business for very much longer.
I used to work at Jessops and people would unfailingly make a compact camera buying decision based on how far the zoom extended.
I would ask them what they wanted it for and they'd say "Family parties and weddings" so I'd recommend one with a wide angle zoom so they could get more people in the shot. But no, they wanted a zoom that stuck out more tahn they wanted a useful camera. I may as well not have been there. Irony.
When digital cameras first came out they knew that the sensors were too small to support many megapixels. Then they increased the megapixels at a ridiculous rate. What made them change minds?
Microlenses. It works great for sure, but it's not magic though !
What the world needs is Bigger Zooms, Smaller Sensors, and More Megapixels. Oh yea and More Feminine Color Choices.
You forgot strictly no-VC in order to found back the good ol' sensations of non-stabilized cameras. "What a feeling" as sang Irene Cara !
Me love you long time !
What they should do is a camera with two sensors you can switch between. A 6MP and a 20MP. People would soon realise that 6MP was better and demand for low mgapixels would soar.
You'll find that all cameras can be switched to smaller file sizes, and it tends to make the images better because there is less interpolation and therefore processing to do.
Have a look in your settings for something like Small/medium/large.
I wouldn't say there is less interpolation and processing, because the camera takes a full-sized picture, using the same amount of pixels on the sensor, and then downsamples it. But downsampling tends to give cleaner files, because some noise gets averaged out in the process.
Are the kind of people who buy a camera because it's metallic pink even aware what a megapixel is, or that by having 20.1 of them they have more than their peers have in their pink cameras? Will they know they have to buy a big memory card to make sure they can get more than three photos on it? Wasn't the guy from Casio on here the other week talking about doing the exact opposite of this with their camera range?
This market segment does not deserve to survive.
Well done Casio, you've made a camera for idiots and old people. Because everyone will still prefer to use their phones.
20mp, WHAT THE ****?! Nobody in that market needs even 10mp, nobody ever asked for it.
The compact camera market is just getting more and more f***ed. The cameras haven't gotten faster, better or more reliable than ones from 5 years ago. My 6mp IXUS 60 is probably faster than this piece of s***.
The Nokia 808 Pureview showed that high megapixel counts on small sensors can work.
Nokia 808 Pureview had 1/1.2" sensor => three times the area of 1/2.3"
Yow! 20 MP! I told you this would happen, Murray.
Even if this initiative is indifferently implemented, it will goad competition to do it better.
More megapixels does not equal less resolution guys and girls. You HAVE to compare the final output. Looking at it on a pixel-per-pixel basis is meaningless in a photography context.
Now, I agree that 20 megapixels behind a comparatively tiny lens aperture sounds like trouble, and it obviously isn't marketed for enthusiasts, but maybe Casio uses the extra data-points for some clever automatic noise reduction and sharpening which is appreciated by the snapshooters this is marketed for.
Or maybe they just want to distinguish it from other P&S in its price range.
Hey, but what about diffraction ? Such a tiny pixels are more sensitive to the effects of diffraction. You can combat the resulting loss of sharpness by using larger apertures, but this thing has also tiny aperture: f/3.5-f-6.5.
BTW, this thing has CCD sensor. It's very well known that CCDs are particularly badly affected by high pixel density.
If you're looking at the output at the pixel level, diffraction would be a problem; but if you consider that photos from this camera is likely to be shown, at best, on something like a new iPad which has a bit more than 3 MP resolution diffraction becomes much less of a problem. In fact, even something as tiny as the aperture on the Casio should be able to resolve for the iPad display without being diffraction limited, if it doesn't stop down further.
Also, even if the end image, as far as the consumer is concerned, is limited to the 3 MP shown on their iPad/TV/computer, it's likely that even the rather invasive sharpening and denoising performed by most modern p&s cameras is going to get you a better and more pleasing result if the starting point is 20 MP raw image, compared to one with fewer data points.
I don't want to come across as apologetic about manufacturers pumping up megapixels, it can be misleading, and money could sometimes be better spent on cameras with bigger glass.
I don't agree. This sensor will generate masses of useless data due to diffraction. This is a waste of space and energy on any portable device. No kind of clever data processing can change this.
Casio wants to say ME TOO. And join the club of high noise, low quality, pixel crowded poor dynamic range camera makers.
Hey, that's my ID portrait.
Hmm. It has the equivalent of a 26-156mm lens. It's really just 4.6-27.6mm. In the past you've always made that distinction clear.
I'm not bothered by the 20 MP sensor. It's only a problem if the processor can't keep up and the camera gets bogged down. Otherwise it's just more pixels, not necessarily more total noise. For flexibility, I'd rather have more resolution to start with and downscale later.
As for the lens limiting the resolution, I have yet to see a test where the pixel grid wasn't easily visible in good light. In low light the noise can turn the image into a sea of mush, but in good light the pixels are easily seen and limits image resolution far more than the sharpness of the lens, except way out at the edges.
.......or am I just too cynical?
I try to be as cynical as I can, but I'm always falling behind.
this thing has 20.1 mpx. 1 inch sensored another pocketable cam has smilar mpx..... and some entry level dslr´s has about 12-16 mpx !!!
Please rename some standards in terms of Megapixels.
This is getting be like Spinal Tap.
"But MY camera goes up to eleven!"
Why so many people worried about a pink camera? It's obviously not targeted at you.
"Casio Europe releases 20.1 MP Exilim EX-ZS30 camera."
Looks like the pixel madness isn't about to end.
I am disappointed -- only 20MP. I was hoping that it would be 40mp so it would greater resolution than the Nikon FF.
Disappointed it doesn't have 35x optical zoom, though.
I like that quote, but it's not from Einstein.
In before the 'real camera's aren't pink' crowd.
For some reason I want to hit it with a sledge hammer.
It's probably because it clashes with your understanding of a meaningful life.
exactly, people need to realize the camera would be just as good if it were 6 MP. The Pentax Q is already 12 MP, but to resolve that the lens would have resolve well over 300 lp/mm, which is insane. A lens that can resolve that much would cost $1000+. The most those point and shoots need to be is maybe 6 MP.
but they may be in cahoots with the companies who make SDHC cards. 20mp files take up more room than 6mp files....and of course there is the marketing factor.
I still use my 6mp Fuji F20, as it usually produces better pictures than the 12mp Canon SX130 that came after it. I can only imagine what a 20mp wonder is like. I'd be tickled pink if these small sensor cameras were no more than 10mp by now.
I still occasionnally use my Fuji F10, such an undestructible and useful pocket camera, with a lens perfectly fitting the sensor, that give great 6MP pictures: everything is a matter of balance!
After 16MP and now 20MP, I guess the race won't be over and couldn't wait to discover the future 24MP and 32MP compact camera generations, using such revolutionary resolutions to produce instagram-alike 1200x800 pictures for the web! lol!
Wrong, the camera would be BETTER if it were 6 megapixel, because it would be more responsive.
I still use my 7 MP Sony P150 of the 2004 era. I like the minute dimensions and the relatively snappy colors. Plus, I dropped it on the sidewalk twice and it still works fine.
Good point bobbarber :) If they really want to do these high resolution cameras they need to implement pixel binning right in the camera so the user never sees more than 6 MP or so.


Time to start thinking about pumpkins and more importantly, what you'll do with all those seeds.
Kids like messy? Try out this pumpkin putty using ingredients you probably already have around your home.
Did someone say pumpkin pie truffles?
Another great fall flavor I love is apples. Think candied apples, apple pies, apple tarts, or even apple cider doughnut holes.
These multi-colored leaf cookies will not only be fun to look at, but delicious to eat. More crafty fun includes this peanut butter birdseed holder that you can help your kids make.
Don't forget my favorite part - fall foliage! We always have a beautiful time this part of the year because we enjoy the way the trees change and turn the leaves a new rainbow of colors.
Lastly, don't forget to get out there and enjoy these apple orchards and pumpkin farms. Sarah Parisi of Toddling Around Chicagoland has a great round-up that she does every year with up to date information about the local Chicagoland places to see.
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Костиков — русская фамилия и топоним.

Персоналии
 Костиков, Андрей Григорьевич (1899—1950) — советский учёный в области механики, ракетостроитель, один из разработчиков «Катюши».
 Костиков, Валерий Иванович (род. 1937) — советский и российский учёный в области материаловедения.
 Костиков, Вячеслав Васильевич (род. 1940) — российский государственный деятель, дипломат.
 Костиков, Игорь Владимирович (род. 1958) — председатель Совета Межрегиональной общественной организации «Союз потребителей финансовых услуг».
 Костиков, Николай Михайлович (род. 1962) — советский и российский футболист и тренер.
 Костиков, Олег Евгеньевич (род. 1969) — советский и украинский футболист, нападающий.
 Костиков, Фёдор Михайлович (1920—1995) — Герой Советского Союза.

 Костикова, Валентина Кузьминична (Куликова; 1935—1997) — советская баскетболистка.

Топоним
 Костиков — хутор в Октябрьском районе Ростовской области.


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Are we alone? This course introduces core concepts in astronomy, biology, and planetary science that enable the student to speculate scientifically about this profound question and invent their own solar systems. All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.
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Really enjoyed the course. It gave a very comprehensive introduction to Astrobiology and I enjoyed being pushed to write a science fictional short story at the end.
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This is simply fantastic! Such a charismatic lecturer leading us so professionally through heavy subjects in a light manner! Looking forward to more courses!
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Hi, I'm David Spergel, and I'd like to welcome you to Princeton University's Coursera course, Imagining Other Earths. I'm a professor here at Princeton University where I'm chair of the astronomy department. By training, I'm a theoretical cosmologist, and a lot of my early work is involved in microwave background, the leftover heat from the Big Bang. I was one of the scientists deeply involved with The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe or WMAP. We made a detailed map of the microwave background and use that to determine a lot about the history of the universe. We measured its age, 13.7 billion years, and determine its composition, atoms, dark matter, dark energy. In the last decade or so, I've grown increasingly interested in extra solar planets. About a decade ago, I was involved in designing chronograph. That's something that let us see dim things around something bright, and now deeply involved in a NASA project called WFIRST. This is a telescope that will do a number of things, including study dark energy, dark matter. And with the chronograph, provide the first detailed images and characterization of planets, like those in our solar system, around the nearby stars. It will hopefully be an important step towards imaging and detecting Earth-like planets around other stars. That's where I'm spending a lot of my research time right now. The course that I'll be giving, and I hope you'll take, is based on a freshman seminar called Imagining Other Earths, that I offered to Princeton for three years. When I taught that class, I typically had 12 students in the class. I think I have about 12,000 of you signed up to take this Coursera course. So this will be a new experience for me. It's one I'm really excited about and looking forward to. I've enjoyed putting together these lectures. We've had the opportunity in doing this to talk to some of the leaders in the field, and I hope that you'll enjoy this adventure. Let me tell you a little more detail about how the course is going to work. The goal of the course is multi-fold. I want to introduce you to a lot of physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, biology. And let you see how we can apply ideas from all these different areas of science to thinking about what life could be like on other planets, how it might evolve, whether there are other planets. Talk about the properties of stars and planets, atmospheres. I hope I had fun introducing you to all these different concepts. The structure of the course is spaced around the series of 24 lectures. Each lecture will take about 45 minutes and be divided into three parts. The first part will be a roughly 15 minutes. After that, you'll answer a short question interactively. If you can't answer the question, just guess something, and we'll help you with it. Then another 15 minutes segment, another question, and then a final 15 minutes segment. A number of the lectures will be supplemented by interviews with leading scientist working on relevant topics. And my colleagues have been very generous with their time, and we'll be able to talk with people like Sean Solomon, when we talk about Mercury. He's leading NASA's exploration of Mercury. Scientists like Debrah Fischer and John Johnson who are at the forefront of the search for extra-solar planets. Scientists like Lisa Kaltenegger, theorists thinking about the possibilities of habitable planets and what their properties might be. And we'll conclude with a conversation with Freeman Dyson, one of the great thinkers of our time. A leading theoretical physicist who at 90 has remained incredibly active and has many insightful ideas on what are the other earths and other places that might host life might be like. A very important part of this course will be the forums. This course should be much more than just listening to these lectures. I strongly encourage you to become part of a community, engage in discussions, meet other students in the course through the forums. Together with Simone, one of the graduate student working with me here at Princeton, we're going to be monitoring the forums. We're going to try to help answer some of the questions that come up in the forums and provide additional comments. I'm also going to be setting up a Twitter account and hope to communicate with you that way and use that to make the course more interactive. Say, a little bit about the assignments in the class, in addition to answering these short questions during the lectures, there'll be three major assignments. The first two assignments will involve you are looking into in reading about a proposed mission to explore either our solar system or to learn more about planets around stars beyond our solar system. In each of these cases, what you'll do is you read about the mission. I will guide you to materials, and you'll write a roughly 750 to 1,000 word paper. So roughly four to five pages about one of these topics. And we'll have more details about the assignments as we go into the course, but we'll have those first two assignments. And then, what will be the capstone of the course? And what I hope this will all lead up to is you're writing a paper or recording a YouTube video where you talk about a solar system that you invent. What I hope you'll do in that paper is go into some depth in one aspect of your solar system and its planets. If you're interested in the astronomy, talk about how your solar system has been detected. How astronomers learn more about it. If you're interested in the geology, talk about the properties of your planet, its atmosphere, its composition. If you're interested in the biology, perhaps you'll talk more deeply about and just speculate about how life might evolve. Our function on your planet. Finally, if you're interested in just thinking about what other civilizations might be like, speculate about how that civilization might evolve, and what things would be like on the planet that you've invented. I've enjoyed putting together these lectures. I hope you'll enjoy listening to them and interacting through them with fellow students engaged in the course. I want to thank the university for supporting this, the broadcast center and the people here for helping me with this and helping to make this, I hope, a success. And finally, I want to thank the class of 1972, here at Princeton, who were generous in providing a support to make this possible and enable this Coursera course. Which will hopefully help communicate some of the exciting things going on in this area of science to the broader world. So I'm looking forward to talking to you some more, and we'll see you soon.
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