The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is a theoretical model which describes matter and its interaction with the three fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetic, nuclear strong and weak. This model, extremely precise and predictive, was completed by the discov...

Highlights • New (hierarchical) generative model for linguistic interactions. • Builds on active inference formulations of dyadic interactions. • We simulate agents that ask and answer questions together. • Theta-gamma coupling emerges from belief updating under this fr...

A rich archive of oral and ethnological literature is housed in the National Folklore Collection, in University College Dublin, Ireland. The Schools’ Manuscript Collection is one body of information that contains a wealth of ethnographic material, including that of an e...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Severe COVID-19 associated respiratory failure, poses the one challenge of our days. Assessment and treatment of COVID-19 associated hyperinflammation may be key to improve outcomes. It was speculated that in subgroups of patien...

<jats:p> While parents have long received guidance on how to raise children, a relatively new element of this involves explicit references to infant brain development, drawing on brain scans and neuroscientific knowledge. Sometimes called ‘brain-based parenting’, this h...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper explores how, at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection, the anaesthetised animal was construed as a boundary object around which “cooperation without consensus” (Star, in: Esterbrook (ed) Computer supported coopera...

See related article, pages 905–913 How a seemingly simple signal (ie, hypoxia) becomes transduced into biochemical and molecular responses that mediate maladaptive tissue damage is the defining enigma in various events that lead to oxygen deprivation, such as myocardial...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>A Pb-based synthetic mineral referred to as <jats:italic>psimythion</jats:italic> (pl. <jats:italic>psimythia</jats:italic>) was manufactured in the Greek world at least since the 6th c BCE and routinely by the 4th c BCE. Theoph...