to laymen. They deal with emotional reactions to frustration and failure, to acute illness, to fertility and sterility, to divorce, and to death and suicide. The fourth and seventh of the above, by Dr. Leo Bartemeier and Dr. Jules Masserman respectively, are thought provoking and profound, and Dr. Spiegler's account of reactions to catastrophe helpful to the individual and perhaps to the intern...

We introduce and analyze “multistage situations”, which generalize “multistage games” (which, in turn, generalize “repeated games”). One reason for this generalization is to avoid the perhaps unrealistic constraint inherent to noncooperative games that the set of strategy tuples must be a Cartesian product of the strategy sets of the players. Another reason is that in most economic and social a...

the purpose of the present study was to determine whether noticing through input enhancement had any impact on the acquisition of english conditional sentences in iranian efl learners. two intact classes with 26 female students in each were chosen. a proficiency test administered at the commencement of the study showed that the two groups were homogeneous in terms of their language proficiency....

The beliefs of the agents in a multi-agent system have been formally modelled in the last decades using doxastic logics. The possible worlds model and its associated Kripke semantics provide an intuitive semantics for these logics, but they commit us to model agents that are logically omniscient. We propose a way of avoiding this problem, using a new kind of entities called subjective situation...

in this paper, we show that the chapman-kolmogorov formula could be used as a recursive formula for computing the m-step-ahead conditional density of a markov bilinear model. the stationary marginal probability density function of the model may be approximated by the m-step-ahead conditional density for sufficiently large m.

in this paper, we show that the conditional transform with respect to the gaussian process involving the first variation can be expressed in terms of the conditional transform without the first variation. we then use this result to obtain various integration formulas involving the conditional $diamond$-product and the first variation.

This paper studies the notion of similarity with reference to situations of situation theory. While the commonsense notion of two situations resembling each other appears to be valuable in our daily life, we show that it is problematic for the same reasons researchers have been pointing out in psychological and philosophical literature. That human beings can u e the notion naturally (without mu...