Given the well-documented campaign in the USA to deny the reality and seriousness of anthropogenic climate change (a major goal of which is to “manufacture uncertainty” in the minds of policy-makers and the general public), we examine the influence that perception of the scientific agreement...

Lovett and Baus have claimed recently that there is a scalar pressure in an equilibrium non-uniform system that both satisfies the condition of mechanical equilibrium and is the density of Gibbs's grand potential. It is shown, by means of counter-examples, that this claim is generally not correct.

This study examined the impact of three alternative types of goals (specific learning, general “do your best” learning, and specific performance) on team performance. Eighty-four-person teams engaged in an interdependent command and control simulation in which the team goal and task...