The astonishing skills of savants have been suggested to be latent in everyone, but are not normally accessible without a rare form of brain impairment. We attempted to simulate such brain impairment in healthy people by directing low-frequency magnetic pulses into the left fronto-temporal lobe. Significant stylistic changes in drawing were facilitated by the magnetic pulses in four of our 11 p...

This paper describe a weakly supervised solution for detecting stance in tweets, submitted to the SemEval 2016 Stance Task. Our approach is based on the premise that stance can be exposed as positive or negative opinions, although not necessarily about the stance target itself. Our system receives as input ngrams representing opinion targets and common terms used to denote stance (e.g. hashtags...

In this paper we re–examine banks’ lending behavior taking into account changes in the stance of monetary policy in conjunction with changes in financial sector uncertainty. Using a very large data set covering all banks in the US between 1979–2000, we show that financial sector uncertainty plays an important role in banks’ lending decisions: for a given size classification, less liquid banks (...

We look at how some basic choices in the management of turns influence the impression that people get from an agent. We look at scales concerning personality, emotion and interpersonal stance. We do this by a person perception study, or rather an agent perception study, using simulated conversations that systematically vary basic turn-taking strategies. We show how we can create different impre...

Normative environments have been proposed to regulate agent interaction in open multi-agent systems. However, most approaches rely on pre-imposed regulations that agents are subject to. Taking a different stance, we focus on a normative framework that assists agents in establishing by themselves their own commitment norms. With that aim in mind, a model of norm defeasibility is presented that e...

After defining electronic money it is explained that the Dutch policy stance with respect to electronic money is that issuing value is seen to be equivalent to deposit taking and therefore subject to supervision. As a result the Dutch central bank actively monitors developments with respect to electronic money and reviews the schemes under the rules of the supervision law. The most important fi...

This paper is an expanded version of [28] and [30] where there is presented an introduction to a point of view for discrete foundations of physics. In taking a discrete stance, we find that the initial expression of physical observation naturally occurs in a context of non-commutative algebra. In this way a formalism similar to quantum mechanics occurs first, but not necessarily with the usual ...

In this paper we re-examine commercial banks’ lending behavior taking into account changes in the stance of monetary policy in conjunction with changes in financial sector uncertainty. Using a very large data set covering all banks in the US between 1986–2000, we show that financial uncertainty has an important and significant role in the monetary policy transmission mechanism that varies acros...