objective: theory of mind (tom) or mindreading is an aspect of social cognition that evaluates mental states and beliefs of oneself and others. validity and reliability are very important criteria when evaluating standard tests; and without them, these tests are not usable. the aim of this study was to systematically review the validity and reliability of published english comprehensive tom tes...

Two models that explain variation in behaviour associated with locating and accepting different habitats (host plants) are described and analyzed. One model describes the dynamics of searchmode ontogeny in Eattus philenor butterflies. This model predicts that the proportion of females using either of two search modes at any given time reflects an equilibrium between the rate at which females sw...

Onset of chaotic mode transitions can be used in a simple and robust mechanism for adaptation in multimode systems. We present an idealized model of adaptive mode selection using on-o switching of chaotic basin transitions a multistable system. A stochastic description obtained in the limit of large switching intervals gives search times in terms of projections of the chaotic state onto basins ...

In this paper, we introduce a multilingual access and retrieval system with enhanced query translation and multilingual document retrieval, by mining bilingual terminologies and aligned document directly from the set of comparable corpora which are to be searched upon by users. By extracting bilingual terminologies and aligning bilingual documents with similar content prior to the search proces...

We present a prototype for video search and browsing in large video collections optimized for tablets. The content of the videos is organized into sub-shots, which are visualized by frame stripes of different configurations. Moreover, all videos can be filtered by color layout and motion patterns to reduce search effort. An additional overview mode enables the parallel inspection of multiple fi...

cost optimization of the reinforced concrete cantilever soil retaining wall of a given height satisfying some structural and geotechnical design constraints is performed utilizing harmony search and improved harmony search algorithms. the objective function considered is the cost of the structure, and design is based on aci 318-05. this function is minimized subjected to design constraints. a n...

Whole-genome sequencing and whole-exome sequencing are becoming more widely applied in clinical medicine to help diagnose rare genetic diseases. Identification of the underlying causative mutations by genome-wide sequencing is greatly facilitated by concurrent analysis of multiple family members, most often the mother-father-proband trio, using bioinformatics pipelines that filter genetic varia...

Recent literature suggests that observers can use advance knowledge of the target feature to guide their search but fail to do so whenever the target is reliably a singleton. Instead, they engage in singleton-detection mode--that is, they search for the most salient object. In the present study, we aimed to test the notion of a default salience-based search mode. Using several measures, we comp...

Inter-frame coding using interand intra-predictions plays an important role in achieving high compression efficiency in H.264/AVC. However, most intra-predictions are unnecessary, since the intra-coding mode occupies less than 5% of the overall coding in interframe coding. In this paper, we propose an intra mode skip algorithm for inter-frame coding in H.264/AVC as a means of obtaining fast int...

In the past few years flat user interface design has become the predom‐ inating visual style of operating systems, websites and mobile apps. Although flat design has been widely criticized by HCI and usability experts, empirical research on flat design is still scarce. We present the results of an experimental comparative study of visual search effectiveness on traditional and flat designs. The...