Two studies examined the hypothesis that chunking—defined as the degree to which information is grouped into explicitly labeled categories of distinct valence—moderates the impact of motivation to think on order effects in persuasion. Studies 1 and 2 examined motivation to think in terms of perceived personal relevance and need for cognition, respectively. In both studies, participants read arg...

one of the disputable challenges inside iran is that does iran has a clear and specific military strategy? there are two different answers to this question. one grope argues that iran not only has had military strategy before iran revolution (1979) but also it has now. the second grope believe that in spite of making army and modern government in iran, there is no national security strategy doc...

Consistent hashing is a special kind of hashing which is useful for certain applications. Originally devised by Karger et. al. at MIT[2] for use in distributed caching, the idea has now been expanded to other areas, most notably peer to peer networking[5][4]. As internet use increases and as distributed systems grow more prevalent (ie, Napster clones), consistent hashing could play an increasin...

Abstract This article challenges the conventional wisdom about of Supreme Court’s impact on federalism and centralization. In particular, we argue that centralization Court is far less pronounced if decisions uphold federal state/local laws against challenge are classified as neutral rather than centralizing decentralizing, respectively. reclassification dramatically alters our understanding ro...

The current review paper examines how to apply Dung’s theory of abstract argumentation to define meaningful forms of non-monotonic inference. The idea is that arguments are constructed using strict and defeasible inference rules, and that it is then examined how these arguments attack (or defeat) each other. The thus defined argumentation framework provides the basis for applying Dungstyle sema...