Having a word on the tip of our tongue is a mundane and slightly annoying experience. And yet, as Brown’s article helps us see, the theoretical implications of a TOT experience range very widely. The study of TOTs may also turn out to be useful for larger methodological reasons. Here, too, Brown recognizes that the investigation of TOTs offers an especially good example of convergent cognitive ...

In the past recent years, I have been using string diagrams to teach basic category theory (adjunctions, Kan extensions, but also limits and Yoneda embedding). Using graphical notations is undoubtedly joyful, and brings us close to other graphical syntaxes of circuits, interaction nets, etc... It saves us from laborious verifications of naturality, which is built-in in string diagrams. On the o...

Copulas have become a popular tool in multivariate modeling successfully applied in many fields. A good open-source implementation of copulas is much needed for more practitioners to enjoy the joy of copulas. This article presents the design, features, and some implementation details of the R package copula. The package provides a carefully designed and easily extensible platform for multivaria...

Modern data-intensive applications apply statistical analysis algorithms onmassive databases to deliver qualitatively better results in many domains, including science, governance, and business. These applications require low latency, always-on, and cost-effective data management. This places increased demands on today’s database management systems (DBMSs) whose architectures are tailored for t...

Joy Mining Machinery ("Joy") is submitting the following comments in response to the Request for Information for the above proposed Rule, 30 CFR § 75.1732 involving Proximity Detection Systems ("PDS"). In addition to the comments set forth below, we are attaching and incorporating a copy of Joy's previous comments on RIN 1219-AB65, which we submitted on March 29, 2010 in response to MSHA's prio...

Variations in teacher methods and flexibility the learning process will be able to create more effective learning, because it can reduce boredom during one of which is singing method. This study aims find out understand application method mufradat madrasah students Haurgeulis, Indramayu. Qualitative research with this descriptive describes a state object under study. The population teachers cla...

background : marital satisfaction is defined as the feeling of pleasure, satisfaction, and joy experienced by the couples. premenstrual syndrome (pms) can cause problem in daily routine relation and activities.the study aimed determining frequency of marital dissatisfaction in couples who their waives suffer from pms in the city of yazd. methods : sample for this descriptive-analytical study wa...

Gelotophobes (individuals with a fear of being laughed at) have even been found to express less joy and more contempt towards joyfully smiling/laughing faces compared to non-gelotophobes. However, it is unclear whether the lower levels of joy and higher levels of contempt are related to joy per se or only to those elements of joy associated with laughter. Thus, this study investigated the verba...