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The Centipede-Whale [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1897
I AM very much desirous of being informed by you, or some of your readers, what animal is meant by “Scolopendra Cetacea,” which, according to Johnston, has only been described by AElian: “Scolopendrae vim et naturam, … quoddam etiam maximame cetos marinum earn esse audivi, quam de mari tempestatibus in litus expulsam nemo foret tarn audax, quin ...
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A Luminous Centipede [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1902
IN your issue of January 9 (p. 223), an account of some observations of the Geophilus is given, from which it would appear that it used its power of emitting light as a means of protection. It might be well to point out that irritation or excitation of many luminous organisms has this result.
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Rainbow: Combining Improvements in Deep Reinforcement Learning

open access: yes, 2017
The deep reinforcement learning community has made several independent improvements to the DQN algorithm. However, it is unclear which of these extensions are complementary and can be fruitfully combined.
Azar, Mohammad   +9 more
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All graphs with at most seven vertices are Pairwise Compatibility Graphs

open access: yes, 2012
A graph $G$ is called a pairwise compatibility graph (PCG) if there exists an edge-weighted tree $T$ and two non-negative real numbers $d_{min}$ and $d_{max}$ such that each leaf $l_u$ of $T$ corresponds to a vertex $u \in V$ and there is an edge $(u,v) \
Calamoneri, Tiziana   +2 more
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Mitochondrial activity disruption and local muscle damage induced in mice by Scolopendra polymorpha venom

open access: yesJournal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
Background: Scolopendra polymorpha (S. polymorpha) is a predatory centipede whose venom contains a multiplicity of biochemical effectors that can cause muscle damage and cumulative cell destruction in its prey.
Judith Tabullo De Robles   +5 more
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“Piolho-de-cobra” (Arthropoda: Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) na concepção dos moradores de Pedra Branca, Santa Terezinha, Estado da Bahia, Brasil = Piolho-de-cobra (Arthropoda: Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) as viewed by the inhabitants of Pedra Branca, Santa Terezinha, Bahia State, Brazil

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2006
O presente artigo registra as concepções, os conhecimentos e os comportamentos que os moradores do povoado de Pedra Branca, no Estado da Bahia, possuem sobre o “piolho-de-cobra” (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha).
Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto
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Indenture as a Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test [PDF]

open access: yes
We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent ...
Alexander S. Kritikos   +1 more
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One for all, all for one---von Neumann, Wald, Rawls, and Pareto

open access: yes, 2020
Applications of the maximin criterion extend beyond economics to statistics, computer science, politics, and operations research. However, the maximin criterion---be it von Neumann's, Wald's, or Rawls'---draws fierce criticism due to its extremely ...
Ismail, Mehmet S.
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Uncertainty aversion and equilibrium in extensive games. [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper formulates a rationality concept for extensive games in which deviations from rational play are interpreted as evidence of irrationality.
Rothe, Jorn
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