Pain is a useful sensation. Nociceptive pain provides warning of impending or actual tissue damage and prompts aversive or attentive actions that protect the body from harm. People who do not feel pain, due to mutation of certain ion channels (1), suffer a lifetime of otherwise avoidable injuries. The consequences of losing the ability to feel pain also are highlighted by the symptoms and clini...

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Thanks to Pylyshyn's work in the imagery debate, theorists are now apt to be at least a bit more cautious when they launch into descriptions of depictive representation. Even if the full force of his critique is not everywhere acknowledged, more care and vigilance is exercized when broaching talk of scanning mental images, focusing on such entities, or rotating them. The very places found in me...

In this paper we re-examine the regional determinants of FDI in China using both total FDI flows, and FDI flows disaggregated by entry mode. Building on both the FDI location and entry mode choice literatures, we argue for the existence of mode-specific location advantages, and test for their existence. We first specify and estimate a location model of aggregate FDI flows to Chinese regions. Us...

We develop and estimate a spatial game-theoretic model of entry and location choices to examine firms’ strategic clustering decisions. The model identifies two contradictory effects that determine firms’ geographical location choices: a competition effect and a clustering effect. We also separate firm’s strategic clustering incentives from the observed clustering behavior due to exogenous facto...

Recently, mobile applications have offered users the option to share their location information with friends. Using data from a major location-based social networking application in China (a Foursquare-like application), we estimate a structural model of restaurant discovery and observational learning. The unique feature of repeated customer visits in the data allows us to examine observational...

We develop and estimate a spatial game-theoretic model of entry and location choices to examine firms’ strategic clustering decisions. The model identifies two contradictory effects that determine firms’ geographical location choices: a competition effect and a clustering effect. We also separate firms’ strategic clustering incentives from the observed clustering behavior due to exogenous facto...

This paper describes the strategy and the results of a location mining system used for the ALTA-2014 shared task competition. The task required the participants to identify the location mentions in 1003 Twitter test messages given a separate annotated training set of 2000 messages. We present an architecture that uses a basic named entity recognizer in conjunction with various rule-based module...

The main question addressed in the present work is how to find effectively a recursive function separating two sets drawn arbitrarily from a given collection of disjoint sets. In particular, it is investigated in which cases it is possible to satisfy the following additional constraints: confidence where the learner converges on all data-sequences; conservativeness where the learner abandons on...