A degraded/dysfunctional immune system appears to be the main determinant of serious/fatal reaction to viral infection (for COVID-19, SARS, and influenza alike).There are four major approaches being employed or considered presently to augment or strengthen the immune system, in order to reduce adverse effects of viral exposure.The three approaches
Self-organization, a process by which the internal organization of a system changes without supervision, has been proposed as a possible basis for multisensory enhancement in the superior colliculus (Anastasio and Patton 2003).We simplify and extend these results by presenting a simulation using traditional self-organizing maps, intended to underst
In 2013, the Caribbean underwent an unprecedented epidemic of Chikungunya that affected 29 islands and mainland territories throughout the Caribbean in the first six months.Analysing the spread of the epidemic among the Caribbean islands, we show that the initial patterns of the epidemic can be explained by a network model based on the flight conne
I present and defend here a thesis named vehicleless externalism for conceptual mental episodes.According to it, the constitutive relations there are between the production of conceptual mental episodes by an individual and the inclusion of this individual in social discursive practices make it non-necessary to equate, even partially, conceptual me