According to Fodor's informational approach, mental symbols have content by virtue of standing in certain nomic relations with their referents. These relations are sustained by computational mechanisms which enable the ...

The objective is to present a critique of Eurocentrism as a specific and necessary function of capitalism. This criticism is twofold and addresses: a) the expropriation imposed on Latin American countries by European ...

The article lists as a unit of analysis the Marxist Theory of Dependency that emerged in the 1960s in Latin America. This paper seeks to shed light on the past, but primarily to fill some gaps in the contributions of this ...

We consider a two-parameter family of Z(2) gauge theories on a lattice discretization T(M) of a three-manifold M and its relation to topological field theories. Familiar models such as the spin-gauge model are curves on a ...

An item response theory model for dealing with omitted responses in a test is proposed. In this model formulation, non-response does not only depend on an examinee's ability and on item difficulty, but additionally also ...

We show that diffusion can play an important role in protein-folding kinetics. We explicitly calculate the diffusion coefficient of protein folding in a lattice model. We found that diffusion typically is configuration- ...

We study the effects of time-dependent substrate/film temperature in the deposition of a mesoscopically thick film using a statistical model that accounts for diffusion of adatoms without lateral neighbors whose coefficients ...