Language is a complex multidimensional cognitive system that is connected to many neurocognitive capacities. The development of language is therefore strongly intertwined with the development of these capacities and their ...

Many vegetated coastal ecosystems are formed through ecosystem engineering by clonal vegetation. Recent work highlights that the spatial shoot organization of the vegetation determines local sediment accretion and subsequently ...

Gradual semantics are methods that evaluate overall strengths of individual arguments in graphs. In this paper, we investigate gradual semantics for extended frameworks in which probabilities are used to quantify the ...

Western societies have become more polarized over the last decades which forms a threat to their democracies. It is therefore important to understand the detailed mechanisms behind this polarization in the framework of ...

Many motile microorganisms communicate with each other and their environments via chemical signaling which leads to long-range interactions mediated by self-generated chemical gradients. However, consequences of the interplay ...

This study evaluates if the regulation to vote by proxy – the way that it is currently implemented in the Dutch Electoral Act, and in light of the need to ensure that voting secrecy, voting freedom and voting equality are ...

Strigolactones (SLs) are rhizosphere signalling molecules and phytohormones. The biosynthetic pathway of SLs in tomato has been partially elucidated, but the structural diversity in tomato SLs predicts that additional ...

BACKGROUND: Antibiotic use and resistance in animal production are a concern to public health, and there is an urgent need to reduce antibiotic use in farm animals. To prevent blame shifting, professionals from human ...

Sanctions are presented as a form of international punishment that not only stigmatises the target, but creates a hierarchy between those who impose punishment and those punished. Such practices go against the principle ...