exemplificatory, and by concentrating on what is available close at hand, they are inviting others in France to follow them. "Go and do thou likewise" could well be the book's motto, and it will be interesting to see how many adopt it. Even those who consider themselves already sufficiently expert not to require basic instruction should not neglect some of its admonitions, and the traveller to ...

The Psalmist dares ask, "What is man that Thou art mindful of him?" Present-day social psychologists might do well to ask the same question of the subjects in their studies of interpersonal attraction. Much of the work on interpersonal attraction falls short of specifying basic premises concerning the individual's motivational disposition with respect to his fellow humans. Occasionally an autho...

Forty-two! yelled Loonquawl. Is that all you ve got to show for seven and a half million years w ork? I checked it very thoroughly, said the computer, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you ve never actually known what the question is. But it was the Great Ques tion! The Ultimate Qu estion of Life, the Universe and E verything, how...

The complexity of human brain geometry suggests a description based on fractality, a mathematical construction to describe self-similarity in various objects in dead and living matter. This would mean that properties or patterns of small cortex structures would be equal to larger ones. Topology is another character. That is the possibility to recognize different forms in smaller, as well as in ...

In four studies, this article investigates the impact of situational experience on social inference. Participants without firsthand experience of a situation made more extreme and erroneous inferences about the personalities of people behaving in that situation than did participants with firsthand experience. Firsthand experience, thus, appears to diminish dispositionism in social inference bec...

The paper considers the design of explicit ratebased flow control for ABR sources in an ATM network. The goal is to share the available capacity “fairly” among many sources while maintaining queue length at a bottleneck node at a desired level. This problem is formulated as a stochastic control problem, and in this framework rate-control mechanisms are developed, which stabilize the queue lengt...

Any modern Graphics Processing Unit (graphics card) is a good platform to run massively parallel programs. Still, we lack tools observe and measure performance characteristics of GPU-based software. We state that due complex memory hierarchy thou- sands execution threads the all issues are about efficient use graphics card hierarchy. propose GPGPUSim simulator, previously used mostly for archit...