Comments On Lerman And Iwata (1996)

Punishment happens: some comments on Lerman and Vorndran's review.

Some readers will view the article by Lerman and Vorndran as controversial. It is a review of existing basic and applied research on punishment and a call for additional research on punishment. The thesis of my commentary is that the paper should not be viewed as controversial. Punishment happens. To ignore a natural phenomenon and its implications for a technology of behavior is akin to ignori...

Tracy Lerman

The Ohio State University 1996 Comments on Samansky , " Tax Policy and the Obligation to Support Children

Toward a Better Approach to Goodness: Comments on Van der Helm and Leeuwenberg (1996)

Some resularities are more salient to the visual system than others. P. A. van der Helm and E. L. J. Leeuwenberg (1996) have proposed a new approach that quantifies the goodness of a pattern's regularity as the number of holographic identities constituting the regulartiy, relative to the total amount of information needed to describe the pattern. This holographic approach to goodness was compar...

on semihypergroups and hypergroups

in this thesis, first the notion of weak mutual associativity (w.m.a.) and the necessary and sufficient condition for a $(l,gamma)$-associated hypersemigroup $(h, ast)$ derived from some family of $lesssim$-preordered semigroups to be a hypergroup, are given. second, by proving the fact that the concrete categories, semihypergroups and hypergroups have not free objects we will introduce t...