Considerable evidence supports the effectiveness of close comparison of examples as a means to promote the induction of schemas that support generalization, especially to novel cases that require far transfer. The ease of comparison would appear to be maximized by presenting the to-be-compared cases in close spatial and temporal proximity. However, findings from a number of recent studies have ...

NETtalk is a massively-parallel network that learns to convert English text to phonemes. In NETtalk, the memory representations are shared among many processing units, and these representations are learned by practice. In humans, distributed practice is more effective for longterm retention than massed practice, and we wondered whether learning in NETtalk had similar properties. NETtalk was tes...

The key to understanding the nature of government is to be found in the old debate between realists and political utopians of many kind. This controversy has several fields including the epistemological issues of political knowledge, the disagreements between philosophers and historians, and the political clashes of liberals wih conservatives. As for the status of political knowledge, the first...

The sense of being stared at, or scopesthesia, was investigated experimentally with participants working in pairs. Two participants were tested repeatedly and the effect of attentional transition was investigated. In some tests, in the pre-trial period the starer stared at the staree, who was blindfolded, and in others the starer did not stare during the pre-trial period. Their overall hit rate...

where √ s is c.m. energy of the process, Esp ≈ 4 √ 6πmw g ≈ 16 TeV energy of sphaleron [7]. The first term in ”Holy Grail” function F (ε) is ’t Hooft suppression factor [1], the second corresponds to the multiple W and Higgs bosons production in Gauss approximation [4, 5], the third is a contribution of tree boson graphs [8, 9]. Boson loops [10] and fermion contribution [11] are accumulated in ...