This paper presents the systems and results for the Event Detection task of the TRECVid 2008 evaluation campaign. The kind of events addressed are single-actor, without requiring detailed tracking of body parts; rather the body as a whole is considered and the interaction between people is not addressed. The events thus considered are the OpposingFlow, PersonRuns and ElevatorNoEntry. For the fi...

The problem of finding regularity conditions for languages is, via the syntactic monoid, closely related to the classical Burnside problem. This survey paper presents several results and conjectures in this direction as well as on related subjects, including bounded languages, pumping, square-free words, commutativity, and rational power series.

INTRODUCTION Our investigation into dream and delirium in schizophrenic subjects was based on the notion of magical thought developed by Sami-Ali. Starting from this notion, we attempted to determine whether they somehow differentiate the psychic space of dream from that of delirium, whether either of these two spaces, or both, are caught in a relational deadlock, and eventually to analyse the ...

product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. one can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic pr...

background aesthetic surgery procedures have been performed at dramatically increased rates in recent years in iran. few researches exist documenting the usage of body image coping strategies and its relationship in seeking surgery. methods the present research examined data from 90 aesthetic surgery participants (30 ss each in invasive, minimally-invasive, and control groups). assessed subject...

we characterize the rational subsets of a finite group and discuss the relations to integral cayley graphs.

The paper presents a new argument for epistemic permissivism. version of permissivism that we defend is moderate applies only to explicit doxastic attitudes. Drawing on Yalcin’s framework modeling such attitudes, argue two fully rational subjects who share all their evidence, prior beliefs, and standards may still differ in the attitudes they adopt. This can happen because be sensitive differen...

this article examines capacity of rational dialogues to achieve ethical universalism. in positive attitude, rational ability considered as most important reason for possibility of achievement to common social-political norms and rights. rational dialogue, by creating a suitable space for dialogue beyond the private interests and involvement of state power; searches consensus on foundation of so...

economists have heralded the formulation of the expected utility theorem as a universal method of choice under uncertainty. in their seminal paper, stigler and becker (stigler & becker, 1977) declared that “human behavior can be explained by a generalized calculus of utility-maximizing behavior” (p.76). the universality of the rational choice theory has been widely criticized by psychologists, ...