knowing and discerning valid judicial precedents from rescinded one

Making Marital Infidelity Questionnaire as valid one

Background and Objective: The issue of marital infidelity in Iranian society is a growing concern  which is accompanied  to unsustainable relationships and high divorce rates. The present  study aimed  to study the psychometric properties of the Persian version of marital infidelity questionnaire. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive-psychometric research in which  400  university st...

Persuasive Precedents

Stories can be a powerful vehicle of persuasion. We typically use stories to link known events into coherent wholes. One way to establish coherence is to appeal to past examples, real or fictitious. These examples can be chosen and critiqued using legal case-based reasoning (CBR) techniques. In this paper, we apply these techniques to factual stories, assessing a story about the facts using pre...

Discerning Structure from Freeform Sketches

ion The MultiTree communication protocol abstracts recognizers from one another and from the application. Incrementality Recognition can occur incrementally as new strokes are added to the page with minimal computation, and this is built into the architecture. Efficiency The MultiTree is compact and supports data caching on each of the nodes to allow recognizers to store precomputed values for ...

Sparseness and Entropy in Semantic Change: Precedents from Early Vision

What is the difference between description and explanation in linguistics? We take explanation to be the reduction of description to independently motivated general principles. For language, a promising source of independently motivated general principles can be found in neuroscience, and especially computational neuroscience. As an example, we consider the notion of historical change in word m...

Learning Physical Descriptions From Functional Definitions, Examples, and Precedents

Knowing a synapse when you see one

Recent years have seen a rapidly growing recognition of the complexity and diversity of the myriad individual synaptic connections that define brain synaptic networks. It has also become increasingly apparent that the synapses themselves are a major key to understanding the development, function and adaptability of those synaptic networks. In spite of this growing appreciation, the molecular, s...