toward a computational theory of conscious processing

... perspective may want to have beliefs about these uncertainties. This can be done by maintaining? ?a probability distribution over that belief and calculating its expectation. For example,? ?a? ?system acting as a? ?speaker can estimate the listener’s comprehension  ... while providing an explicit method for determining when sufficient mutual understanding has been reached by participants in? ?a? ?conversation. We then reviewed interactions between? ?a? ?user and? ?a? ?system that utilizes the formalization. We hope that the approach we take will provoke valuable discussion on ... researchers have begun to explore the suitability? ?of? ?grounding as? ?a? ?design model for human–computer collaboration (Horvitz, 1999; Traum, 1999). It is easy enough to say that participants in? ?a? ?conversation seek out and establish mutual belief? ?of? ?understanding, but the task? ?of? ?formalizing it so that it can be

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 19:58

... products aimed at small dairy farmers A Case Study of Milk Processing: The Idara-e-Kissan Cooperative 127 References Anjum, Muhammad S., K Lodhi, A A Raza, F Walters and S Krause (1989), Pakistan’s ... country Animals was undernourished and disease prone It was estimated that 15 lakh5 male buffalo calves died each year due to starvation With only 500 veterinary hospitals and dispensaries available ... Research Center, Islamabad Burki, A A., M A Khan, and F Bari (2005), “The State of Pakistan’s Dairy Sector: An Assessment,” Working Paper No 05-34 Center for Management and Economic Research, Lahore

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20

... B ,A symmetry 15 2 Basic Data Structures A, (B,C) = (A, B),C A A = A A? ??B = B A A? ??(B‘C) = (A B)‘C A, B: C = A: C ∧ B: C A: B‘C = A: B ∧ A: C A: A, B A B: A A: A A: B ∧ B: A ... informally It also means that the variables we used in earlier chapters are the same as the variables... Then A is a 2-dimensional array, or more particularly, a 3×4 array Formally, A: [3*[4*nat]] ... translate informal descriptions to formal ones A statement in a natural language can... explanation that the variables are x and y , and that their domain is int The example illustrates that

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 16:20

... space? ?a space both material (clearly demarcated by the body of the gaming apparatus) and discursive (situated within the pervasive flows of culture and capital outlined above). To say that playing ... unfold and typically confer on players a grade indicating overall achievement at the end of each performance. Bemani video games are quite popular in Japanese arcades, and the phenomenon is amassing ... materialize; global flows of capital, dance, and fandom coalesce in their stylized, local movements (Bell & Blauer, 2006) as part of a game text with no overarching narrative and no ultimate

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... leadership—e.g.,Wangari  Maathai,  Vandana  Shiva,  and  Alice  Waters.  Allen  and  Sach (2007:2) ask why it is then that “…while women engage in significant and far‐ reaching ... McIntosh, Wm. Alex and Mary Zey 1989. “Women as Gatekeepers? ?of? ?Food Consumption: ... 2005, Gaytán 2004). However, as an “imaginary”? ?of? ??everydaylife,as opposedto? ?a? ?? touristattraction,thecentralfigure is an Italian woman preparing a? ?? delectable, made‐from‐scratch, ... to theagrifoodmovement‐‐‐thepleasures? ?of? ??foodand,byextension,thesensualand relationalqualities? ?of anaesthetic? ?of? ??food. S LOWFOODANDHOMECOOKINGINITALY Italy and the United States are paradigmatic cases with which to analyze gendered

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... 4 135 1 135 A typical message from this source is the following: ABBABABABABABABBBABBBBBABABABABABBBACACAB BABBBBABBABACBBBABA. The next increase in complexity would involve trigram frequencies ... We can also approximate to a natural language by means of a series of simple artificial languages. The zero-order approximation is obtained by choosing all letters with the same probability and ... letter a. Thus a typical sequence is abacacacabacababacac This type of situation is not of much importance for our work. If the first conditionis violated the graph may be separated into a set of

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:06

... through a vessel containing an amalgam of sodi- um separated by a glass partition from mercury. After a while the amalgam was found to have lost a certain amount of its weight, while the same amount ... provides an ideal chronicle Neumann of the University of North of climate and sea-level changes... physiological abnormalities causing apnea Largely as a result of this paper, the apnea hypothesis ... of Oklahoma usually form within larger masses of rotating air known as mesocyclones In 1953 a mesocyclone appeared on a radar screen at Urbana, Ill., as a hookshaped appendage on the

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 15:01

... electric or magnetic state, and capable of acting at a distance according to mathematical laws. In this way mathematical theories of statical electricity, of magnetism, of the mecha- nical action between ... produces a state of polari- zation of its parts similar in distribution to the polarity of the parts of a mass of iron under the influence of a magnet, and like the magnetic polarization, capable of ... electrostatic capacity of a condenser, and the specific inductive capacity of a dielectric. The case of a condenser composed of parallel layers of substances of different electric resistances and

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:44

... p=0.0006 All treatments caused VLDL performance to move towards healthier values - 28 - Tables Table - Overview of state variables, variables, parameters and constants used in this paper State Variables ... Average particle HL attachment rate LDL day-1 0.026 N.S Average particle HL attachment rate VLDL2 day-1 0.034 N.S Average particle lipolysis rate LDL Size and age parameters Average particle age LDL ... ben.vanommen@tno.nl APF: a. freidig@amtbiopharma.com JvdG: jan.vandergreef@tno.nl AAdG: albert.degraaf@tno.nl -1- Abstract Background Dyslipidemia is an important risk factor for cardiovascular

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... non-linear PCA software package for MATLAB® available at [28] Data acquisition and preprocessing This analysis is based on microarray data of the P falciparum HB3 strain from the experimental study of ... Dd2 at approximately 22 h Additional data file is an animation of the IDC based on gene activities of strain P falciparum HB3 Additional data file is an animation of the IDC based on change of ... following Additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file is a table listing all P falciparum genes included in the circular PCA analysis Additional data file

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... Trans-splicing is an unusual process in which two separate RNA strands are spliced together to yield a mature mRNA. We present a novel computational approach which has an overall accuracy of ... eukaryotes. As a first step in this direction, we present a computational analysis of trans- splicing signals from Leishmania major, a member of the Kinetoplastida family. The Kinetoplastidae ... log-transform. The result is a good approximation to a normal curve, allowing us to use the full panoply of statistical analyses available for manipulations of normally distributed data. 012345

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 15:20

... memorization as a nuisance strategy and have actively guarded against it by having participants... fronto-parietal interaction offered here explains how left and right DLPFC and left and right ... aspects of problem solving are localized in parietal areas such as intra-parietal sulcus (IPS) The account of. .. is that constrained presentation lacks ecological validity, straightjacketing ... A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF TOWER OF HANOI PROBLEM SOLVING By Sashank Varma Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 10:58

... V is a small perturbation, and λ an arbitrary parameter The ground state wave function and the corresponding true energy of the system can be expanded as a power series as a result of Rayleigh-Schrödinger ... Related Radicals 129 6.3.2 Impact of Metal Cations on the Dissociation of Tetramethylthiuram Di- and Trisulfides 6.4 Concluding Remarks 143 153 Dissociation Enthalpies and Activation Barriers of ... (A1 -61) A1 .10 Density Functional Theory For a system of N non relativistic interacting electrons in a nonmagnetic state, in a field of nuclei with nuclear charges ZA and nuclear coordinates RA,

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:28

... delivered at a tachygastrial frequency in the distal stomach to set up an artificial ectopic pacemaker This artificial ectopic pacemaker may result in retrograde propagation of electrical waves ... with diabetic and idiopathic gastroparesis [20] Both tachygastria and bradygastria may result from ICC loss A patchy disruption of ICC networks may lead to tachygastria or loss of generation ... P, Ward S. M, Carl A, Norell M. A & Sanders K. M. (1989). Spontaneous electrical activity of interstitial cells of Cajal isolated from canine proximal colon. Proceedings of National Academy of

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 22:51

... A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF CHIRAL SEPARATION OF TRYPTOPHAN BY USING CYCLODEXTRIN LIANG JIANCHAO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2009 A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF CHIRAL SEPARATION OF TRYPTOPHAN ... 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid as chiral stationary phase Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2003 31(6): p 1047-1057 Tachibana, K and A Ohnishi, Reversed-phase liquid chromatographic separation of enantiomers ... Vigneshwar, Babarao Ravichandar, Babarao Ravichandar, and Chen Yifei Last but not least, I want to thank my family and friends for their unconditional love and support throughout the years i TABLE OF

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 22:51

... song “Vande Maataram” by the vocalist Shri Sanjay Subrahmanyan, violinist Shri S Varadarajan, mridangist Shri Mannargudi Easwaran and kanjirist Shri S Venkatramanan. The performance took place in ... lead in that bar, and a bar of secondary accompaniment with an average tension score outside of that range would be treated as invalid accompaniment for the lead in that beat 9.7 Generate all ... development and validation of a tension model that, assuming restricted sowkhyam, is able to generate alternate variations of secondary accompaniment that are as valid as the original accompaniment. Keywords : Carnatic

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 10:11

... decipher a miniature of c.1000 AD, we unconsciously assume that the empty space serves merely as an abstract, unreal background instead of forming part of an apparently natural, three-dimensional space, ... and an automatic transferring of aptitudes, members of the privileged classes are naturally inclined to regard as a gift of nature a cultural heritage which is transmitted by a process of unconscious ... of art a magical power of conversion capable of awakening the potentialities latent in a few of the elect, and which contrasts authentic experience of a work of art as an

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2016, 09:13

... and JAIRO NUNES: Control as Movement MICHAEL ISRAEL: The Grammar of Polarity: Pragmatics, Sensitivity, and the Logic of Scales M RITA MANZINI and LEONARDO M SAVOIA: Grammatical Categories: Variation ... Antonella Sorace, Caroline Heycock and Francesca Filiaci 2004 ‘First Language Attrition and Syntactic Subjects: A Study of Greek and Italian Near-Native Speakers of English’ International Journal of ... Categories: Variation in Romance Languages BARBARA CITKO: Symmetry in Syntax: Merge, Move and Labels RACHEL WALKER: Vowel Patterns in Language MARY DALRYMPLE and IRINA NIKOLAEVA: Objects and Information

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2016, 08:40

... present the standard pragmatic approach to metaphor and, most importantly, various lines of criticism against this approach As an alternative theory of metaphor in a pragmatic framework, ... Studies of Literal and Figurative Language. Journal of Pragmatics 31 91929 2002 Literal vs Figurative Language: Different or Equal? Journal of Pragmatics 34 487506 Giora, Rachel and Ofer Fein ... a literal meaning in favour of an alternative figurative meaning Lakoff and Turner (1989) are also interested... seen as a version of a relevance- theoretic approach to metaphors,

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2016, 09:33

... as a response variable, and the other features are considered as explanatory variables The response variable is expressed as a linear combination of selected explanatory variables (from all availables) ... (1935) 36 A James and M Lord, Macmillan’s Chemical and Physical Data (Macmillan, London, UK, 1992) 37 The electron affinity of a ligand is a measure of the tendency of that ligand to attract electrons35 ... the capability of the method The acquired results indicate that a first principle calculation-based data mining approach can be applied to accelerate the understanding and designing of materials

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