... consider the case of neuroaesthetics. This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often dened as the study ofthe neural processes underlying aesthetic experience. In other words, the job of neuroaestheticians ... psychologist Rolf Reber recently suggested that “art theorists… dene the criterion ofwhatthe [aesthetic] experience is expected to be; scientists… provide a test of whether this criterion is fullled.”2 ... monthly honorarium from the Society. The editor is responsible for the content ofthe journal. The editor is a member ofthe Board of Trust-ees ofthe Society and serves on the Executive Committee...
... the product of the inside probability ofthe item and its priorprobability. Any item with a score less than 10−5times of that ofthebest item is pruned from the chart.4 Whatisthe Minimal ... there may be several distinctderivations that generate the same parse tree. The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum of the probabilities of its distinct derivations. Let tid be the ... t is converted into a context-free rule rwhere the lefthand side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of rcorresponds to the frontier labels of t. Indices linkthe...
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... price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of ... I discuss one functional transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud services, namely; the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast majority of ... against their cloud services costs. This isbest seen as a ‘generation one’ performance measure. This measure is no longer suitable for the assessment of value from cloud services. It is akin...
... εicgbt(24)where X is a vector of controls, B the vector of behaviors, ε isthe error term, i denotes the individual, c the country, t the year ofthe interview, g gender, and b isthe birthcohort.Following ... males). While the precision ofthe estimates ofthe effects of behaviors declines with respect to the micro data, we cannot reject the null hypoth-esis that these effects are jointly statistically ... the case of males the positive effect of education on the number of diseases is driven by the fact thatbetter educated males choose more intensive screening. Turning to the decomposition of the...
... only these kinds of studies are rigorous, as will be discussed in Section 2 of this report.2. Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a. The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the ... brings together all these studies, and assesses the nature ofthe evidence ofthe impact of microfinance on the poor in SSA.Given this paucity, the particular nature of MFIs in SSA, and the policy ... poor b. The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/wealth ofthe poor c. The impact of microfinance on other non-financial outcomes for the poor. The volume and nature ofthe evidence is varied...
... prevented them from trading quite as they wished, the cases on the use of goods discussed in this Article signal the end ofthe slippery slope approach of allowing any expansion ofthe type of measures ... on freedom of movement, namely the criterion of access to the market.”80 This would be “based on the effect ofthe measure on access to the market rather than on the object ofthe rules involved.” ... firm rejection of siren calls in favor ofthe importance ofthe unity of the internal market within the European Union. II. PARADISE REGAINED? The first ofthe cases under discussion to come...
... I include a discussion ofthe quality ofthe empirical evidence base at the end of each section.TABLE 3-1 Matrix ofthe Quality ofthe Evidence and Different Components ofthe Professional DevelopmentSystemQuality ... It is at these other levels one must look to deter-mine the impact ofthe NSES on the science curriculum in the nation’s schools.82 WHATISTHE INFLUENCE OFTHE NSES?Student Accountability The ... that establishes a reasonable linkbetween the NSES and the professional development system, then the evidence ofthe influence ofthe NSES on the system of professional development is variable....
... test the hypothesis of homogene-ity of MID across the nine studies. If there was no statisti-cal evidence of lack of homogeneity, a 95% confidenceinterval for the summary estimate ofthe MID ... establish the interpretability ofthe SF-6D, a new single summary preference-based measure of health derived from the SF-36. The SF-36 is one ofthe most widely used HRQoL outcomemeasures in the ... (global change of 1or 2) the sign ofthe change in the SF-6D score was reversed (i.e. multiplied by minus one). The MID was then taken as the mean change on the SF-6D scale ofthe patients who...
... established the current status ofthe tool-ing within the manufacturing facility, this allows for a tooling rationalisation campaign to be developed. Tool rationalisation (Fig. 1) consists of ... depths of cut more ef-fectively, for the desired production objectives. By op-timisation here ofthe machining parameters, this al-lows full utilisation ofthe capital equipment, with the result ... su-cient for the temperature generated at the tool’s tip, then it will degrade quickly and be useless.• Resistance to thermal shock – this is necessary in order to overcome the eects ofthe continuous...
... Staff training is an integral part ofthe overall development strategy ofthe business. Staff are not trained or not trained fit isthe main cause leading to the current state enterprises are not ... There are many kinds of conflict, a good manager is a person who can aware what are thebest ways to resolve conflicts logically. Resolving conflict may include: listen for whatis felt ... performance of an individual in a large organization where the air is due to work or the work culture ofthe organization that brings3. Increase work efficiencyManagers use motivation in the workplace...
... prevalence estimate. However, this is the first study in this area.Our findings raise issues for the planning of studies and ethi-cal issues related to the obligation ofthe physician-researcherto ... to the pur-pose ofthe imaging, are not missed. There may be a number of ways of providing this function apart from review by a mus-culoskeletal radiologist or other suitably trained specialist.Whilst ... read the MRI scans: they arenot usually trained in musculoskeletal radiology or MRI beyond the measurements they perform. The researcher is obliged toput the health ofthe participant above the...
... a role in the aetiology ofthe disease itself [44].Disease stage and phase of therapyIn PSV, and especially in SVV, the therapeutic approachusually consists of an induction of remission and ... higher GC doses,are utilised. Furthermore, in SVV the selection of drugsdepends on the stage ofthe disease: in the localised andearly systemic stage - that is, disease without threatened ... Although there is anongoing need for better definitions of risk factors, from the available data it is quite clear that prolonged high-dose GCuse isof central significance. Therefore, the reduction...