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Unavoidable Aesthetic Judgments In Copyright Law: A Community Of Practice Standard, Ben Depoorter, Robert Kirk Walker

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Wargaming Financial Crises: The Problem Of (In)Experience And Regulator Expertise, John Crawford

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

How (Not) To Regulate Assisted Reproductive Technology: Lessons From "Octomom", Radhika Rao

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Adobe Medicus 2015 1 January-February, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

No abstract provided.

Unm Hsc Annual Education Day Agenda 2015, Office For Medical Educator Development

HSC Education Days

No abstract provided.

Uncertainty Communication Solution In Neutrosophic Key, Florentin Smarandache, Bianca Tedorescu, Mirela Teodorescu

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

This study is the first step of a research that points out the solving of uncertainties in process analysis. The research is based on Neutrosophy Theory (Smarandache, 1995), a new concept of states treatment with a generous applicability to sciences, like artificial intelligence (Vladareanu et al, 2014).

A New Type Of Group Action Through The Applications Of Fuzzy Sets And Neutrosophic Sets, Florentin Smarandache, Mumtaz Ali

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Fuzzy sets are the most significant tools to handle uncertain data while neutrosophic sets are the generalizations of fuzzy sets in the sense to handle uncertain, incomplete, inconsistent, indeterminate, false data. In this paper, we introduced fuzzy subspaces and neutrosophic subspaces (generalization of fuzzy subspaces) by applying group actions.Further, we define fuzzy transitivity and neutrosophic transitivty in this paper. Fuzzy orbits and neutrosophic orbits are introduced as well. We also studied some basic properties of fuzzy subspaces as well as neutrosophic subspaces.

A Comparison Of Combined Overlap Block Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (Cobfcm) And Combined Overlap Block Neutrosophic Cognitive Map (Cobncm) In Finding The Hidden Patterns And Indeterminacies In Psychological Causal Models: Case Study Of Adhd, Hojjatollah Farahani, Florentin Smarandache, Lihshing Leigh Wang

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In spite of researchers’ concerns to find causalities, reviewing the literature of psychological studies one may argue that the classical statistical methods applied in order to find causalities are unable to find uncertainty and indeterminacies of the relationships between concepts.

In this paper, we introduce two methods to find effective solutions by identifying “hidden” patterns in the patients’ cognitive maps. Combined Overlap Block Fuzzy Cognitive Map (COBFCM) and Combined Overlap Block Neutrosophic Map (COBNCM) are effective when the number of concepts can be grouped and are large in numbers. In the first section, we introduce COBFCM, COBNCM, their applications, and …

The Effectiveness Of Psychosocial Intervention For Individuals With Cleft Lip And/Or Palate., Alyson Norman, Martin Persson, Nicola Stock, Nichola Rumsey, Jonathan Sandy, Andrea Waylen, Zoe Edwards, Vanessa Hammond, Lucy Partridge, Andy Ness

School of Psychology

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review was to assess the effectiveness of different psychological interventions for children and adults with cleft lip and/or palate and their parents. DESIGN: We searched six databases including MEDLINE and EMBASE to June 2013 and checked bibliographies. We included research that evaluated any psychological intervention in studies in which at least 90% of the participants had cleft lip and/or palate or were parents of those with cleft lip and/or palate. Studies containing less than 90% were excluded unless they reported results separately for those with cleft lip and/or palate, or raw data were available upon …

A Multi-Agent Emotional Society Whose Melodies Represent Its Emergent Social Hierarchy And Are Generated By Agent Communications, Alexis Kirke, Eduardo Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

State Trace Analysis: Dissociable Processes In A Connectionist Network?, Fayme Yeates, Andy J. Wills, Fergal W. Jones, Ian P.L. Mclaren

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

A Qualitative Study Of The Impact Of Severe Asthma And Its Treatment Showing That Treatment Burden Is Neglected In Existing Asthma Assessment Scales., Michael E. Hyland, Ben Whalley, Rupert C. Jones, Matthew Masoli

School of Psychology

BACKGROUND: People with severe asthma experience significant respiratory symptoms and suffer adverse effects of oral corticosteroids (OCS), including disturbed mood and physical symptoms. OCS impacts on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) have not been quantified. Asthma HRQoL scales are valid as outcome measures for patients requiring OCS only if they assess the deficits imposed by OCS. AIMS: The aim of this study was to compare the burden of disease and treatment in patients with severe asthma with items in eight asthma-specific HRQoL scales. METHODS: Twenty-three patients with severe asthma recruited from a severe asthma clinic were interviewed about the impact …

Call Me Alix, Not Elix: Vowels Are More Important Than Consonants In Own-Name Recognition At 5 Months., Camillia Bouchon, Caroline Floccia, Thibaut Fux, Martine Adda-Decker, Thierry Nazzi

School of Psychology

Consonants and vowels differ acoustically and articulatorily, but also functionally: Consonants are more relevant for lexical processing, and vowels for prosodic/syntactic processing. These functional biases could be powerful bootstrapping mechanisms for learning language, but their developmental origin remains unclear. The relative importance of consonants and vowels at the onset of lexical acquisition was assessed in French-learning 5-month-olds by testing sensitivity to minimal phonetic changes in their own name. Infants' reactions to mispronunciations revealed sensitivity to vowel but not consonant changes. Vowels were also more salient (on duration and intensity) but less distinct (on spectrally based measures) than consonants. Lastly, vowel …

The Dichotomy Of Memantine Treatment For Ischemic Stroke: Dose-Dependent Protective And Detrimental Effects., Melissa Trotman, Philipp Vermehren, Claire L. Gibson, Robert Fern

More Faculty of Health Research

Excitotoxicity is a major contributor to cell death during the acute phase of ischemic stroke but aggressive pharmacological targeting of excitotoxicity has failed clinically. Here we investigated whether pretreatment with low doses of memantine, within the range currently used and well tolerated for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, produce a protective effect in stroke. A coculture preparation exposed to modeled ischemia showed cell death associated with rapid glutamate rises and cytotoxic Ca(2+) influx. Cell death was significantly enhanced in the presence of high memantine concentrations. However, low memantine concentrations significantly protected neurons and glia via excitotoxic cascade interruption. Mice were …

Toward Mobile Robots Reasoning Like Humans, Jean Oh, Arne Suppe, Felix Duvallet, Abdeslam Boularias, Luis Navarro-Serment, Martial Hebert, Anthony Stentz, Jerry Vinokurov, Oscar Romero, Christian Lebiere, Robert Dean

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Robots are increasingly becoming key players in human-robot teams. To become effective teammates, robots must possess profound understanding of an environment, be able to reason about the desired commands and goals within a specific context, and be able to communicate with human teammates in a clear and natural way. To address these challenges, we have developed an intelligence architecture that combines cognitive components to carry out high-level cognitive tasks, semantic perception to label regions in the world, and a natural language component to reason about the command and its relationship to the objects in the world. This paper describes recent …

Modeling Neuromorphic Persistent Firing Networks, Ning Ning, Guoqi Li, Wei He, Kejie Huang, Li Pan, Kiruthika Ramanathan, Rong Zhao, Luping Shi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Neurons are believed to be the brain computational engines of the brain. A recent discovery in neurophysiology reveals that interneurons can slowly integrate spiking, share the output across a coupled network of axons and respond with persistent firing even in the absence of input to the soma or dendrites, which has not been understood and could be very important for exploring the mechanism of human cognition. The conventional models are incapable of simulating the important newly-discovered phenomenon of persistent firing induced by axonal slow integration. In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient model of neurons through modeling the axon …

Improving Internet Security Through Mandatory Information Disclosure, Qian Tang, Andrew B. Whinston

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Although disclosure has long been considered as a solution to internalize externalities, mandatory security information disclosure is still in debate. We propose a mandatory disclosure mechanism based on existing data. The information is disclosed as straightforward rankings of organizations for users to understand, interpret, and make comparisons. As a result, the disclosure can influence organizations through reputational effects. We created a public website to disclose information regularly and conducted a quasi-experiment on outgoing spam to test the effectiveness of our mechanism on four matched country groups. For each treated country, we released the ranking list of top 10 most spamming …

Comparison Between Hear Rate Based Training, Perceived Effort, And Power Based Training In Competitive Elite Cyclists, Joshua Allen Carter

Theses

There are many different philosophies on how cyclist should train and about the different training modes available to them. It is important to know how to use these different modes of training to maximize the efforts. Training with power, heart rate, and perceived effort all have several advantages and disadvantages. The purpose of this study was to compare these different modes of training over an 8 week period to see if there is a difference between them. The participants were tested before and after the training period to show if there was any significant differences between them.

The study consisted …

Online Assessment Of Negotiation Skills Through 3d Role Play Simulation, D Pacella, A Di Ferdinando, E Dell'aquila, D Marocco

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

The lack of standardised technological tools to assess psychological characteristics allows traditional tests to be still widely used, though these tests require double processing and expensive procedures. ENACT is both a serious game for a standardised assessment of the user negotiation skills and an Intelligent Tutoring System, which makes use of the data collected during the interaction in order to generate a tailored environment for the user to experience and improve their skills and be guided through learning.

Two Spatiotemporally Distinct Value Systems Shape Reward-Based Learning In The Human Brain, Elsa Fouragnan, Chris Retzler, Karen Mullinger, Marios G. Philiastides

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Picking Profitable Investments: The Success Of Equal Weighting In Simulated Venture Capitalist Decision Making, Jan K. Woike, Ulrich Hoffrage, Jeffrey S. Petty

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Alleviating The Concerns With The Sdt Approach To Reasoning: Reply To Singnnann And Kellen (2014), Dries Trippas, Michael F. Verde, Simon J. Handley

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Neural Dynamics Of Social Tie Formation In Economic Decision-Making, Nadège Bault, Benjamin Pelloux, Johannes J. Fahrenfort, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Winden F Van

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Cortical Oscillatory Dynamics And Benzodiazepine-Site Modulation Of Tonic Inhibition In Fast Spiking Interneurons, Emma J. Prokic, Cathryn Weston, Naoki Yamawaki, Stephen D. Hall, Roland S.G. Jones, Ian M. Stanford, Graham Ladds, Gavin L. Woodhall

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

The Hows And Whys Of Face Processing: Level Of Construal Influences The Holistic Processing Of Human Faces., Na Wyer, Tj Hollins, S Pahl

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Outcome Predictability Biases Learning., Oren Griffiths, Chris J. Mitchell, Anna Bethmont, Peter F. Lovibond

School of Psychology

Much of contemporary associative learning research is focused on understanding how and when the associative history of cues affects later learning about those cues. Very little work has investigated the effects of the associative history of outcomes on human learning. Three experiments extended the "learned irrelevance" paradigm from the animal conditioning literature to examine the influence of an outcome's prior predictability on subsequent learning of relationships between cues and that outcome. All 3 experiments found evidence for the idea that learning is biased by the prior predictability of the outcome. Previously predictable outcomes were readily associated with novel predictive cues, …

Adverse Childhood Experience And Asthma Onset: A Systematic Review, Daniel Exley, Alyson Norman, Michael Hyland

School of Psychology

Adverse childhood experiences such as abuse and neglect are associated with subsequent immune dysregulation. Some studies show an association between adverse childhood experiences and asthma onset, although significant disparity in results exists in the published literature.We aimed to review available studies employing a prospective design that investigates associations between adverse childhood experience and asthma. A search protocol was developed and studies were drawn from four electronic journal databases. Studies were selected in accordance with pre-set inclusion criteria and relevant data were extracted.12 studies, assessing data from a total of 31 524 individuals, were identified that investigate the impact of a …

Combination Or Differentiation? Two Theories Of Processing Order In Classification, Andy J. Wills, Angus B. Inkster, Fraser Milton

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Refractory Depression: Mechanisms And Evaluation Of Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (Ro-Dbt) [Reframed]: Protocol For Randomised Trial, T. R. Lynch, B. Whalley, R. J. Hempel, S. Byford, P Clarke, S Clarke, D. Kingdon, H. O'Mahen, I. T. Russell, J. Shearer, M. Stanton, M. Swales, A. Watkins, B. Remington

School of Psychology

IntroductionOnly 30–40% of depressed patients treated with medication achieve full remission. Studies that change medication or augment it by psychotherapy achieve only limited benefits, in part because current treatments are not designed for chronic and complex patients. Previous trials have excluded high-risk patients and those with comorbid personality disorder. Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT) is a novel, transdiagnostic treatment for disorders of emotional over-control. The REFRAMED trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of RO-DBT for patients with treatment-resistant depression.Methods and analysisREFRAMED is a multicentre randomised controlled trial, comparing 7 months of individual and group RO-DBT treatment with …

A Methodological Investigation Of The Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm: Methods Of Analyses, Picture Selection And Data Rejection Criteria, Luche C Delle, Samantha Durrant, Silvana Poltrock, Caroline Floccia

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.