How much information about meaning is contained in the statistical structure of the environment? LSA is a theoretical and practical tool that is challenging previous notions about what is contained in the statistical structure of the environment. This paper examines what kind of category knowledge can be obtained from the environment using LSA. In particular, two experiments are conducted with ...

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Seventy high socially anxious (HSA) and 74 low socially anxious (LSA) participants rated perceived interpersonal and emotional consequences of both (a) autobiographical social blunders recalled from their own lives and (b) imagined blunders presented in standardized hypothetical social scenarios. Ratings of participants' autobiographical blunders were also provided by research assistants who we...

A fast-growing theoretical literature on the political economy of reform has provided a sizable collection of models that have deepened our understanding concerning how distributional conflict manifests itself in the political process and can prevent efficiency-enhancing economic reform from taking place (see e.g., Allan Drazen [2000 Ch. 10, 13] for an insightful review). Unfortunately, systema...

* MIRACL (Multimedia InfoRmation system and Advanced Computing Laboratory) Université de Sfax. Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et de Multimédia de Sfax Route de Tunis, Km 10, cité el ons 3021 BP 242, Tunisie {Wiem.Yaiche, Mohamed.Tmar, Abdelmajid.BenHamadou}@isimsf.rnu.tn ** RIADI-GDL (Génies Documentiel et Logiciel ) Université de la Manouba. École Nationale des Sciences de l’Informatique Ca...

A. Blanco2, D. Belver3, P. Cabanelas3, E. Castro3, P. Fonte2,4, A. Gil5, D. Gonzalez-Diaz1, T. Heinz1, W. Koenig1, C. Muentz6, M. Palka1, J. Pietraszko1, A. Rustamov1, E. Schwab1, Y. Sobolev7, A. Tarantola6, K. Teilab6, M. Traxler1, R. Trebacz8, S. Yurevich1, and the HADES-RPC group 1GSI, Darmstadt, Germany; 2LIP, Coimbra, Portugal; 3USC, Santiago, Spain; 4ISEC, Coimbra, Portugal; 5IFIC (CSIC-U...

A description is given of Physa acuta Draparnaud, 1805, based on topotypic specimens from the Garonne river basin, and additional samples from the environs of the French cities of Montpellier and Perpignan. It proved indistinguishable, in shell and anatomy, from topotypic Physa cubensis Pfeiffer, 1839, thus leading the authors to admit the synonymy of the two nominal species under the older nam...

The little known raspy cricket subfamily Gryllacridinae is reviewed for Korea. Three species are confirmed through material examination and are taxonomically considered as follows: Eugryllacris japonica (Matsumura et Shiraki, 1908) comb. nov. is transferred from Prosopogryllacris japonica (Matsumura et Shiraki, 1908), Nippancistroger testaceus (Matsumura et Shiraki, 1908) has a newly proposed j...