Stereotypically, computation involves intrinsic changes to the medium of representation: writing new symbols, erasing old symbols, turning ears, flipping switches, sliding abacus beads. Perspectival computation leaves the original inscriptions untouched. The problem solver obtains the output by merely alters his orientation toward the input. There is no rewriting or copying of the input inscrip...

Three studies using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses provided consistent evidence for a three-factor model of the social dominance orientation (SDO) in Mainland China. Support for exclusionism, which was not found in previous research, emerged as an independent SDO factor (Studies 1, 2, and 3). In Study 2, this factor predicted SDO difference between a high status group (managers) a...

one of the most important discourses on basics of jurisprudence methodology (‘ilm al-uṣūl) is the one concerning the isolated tradition. the most important reason for proving the validity of the isolated tradition according to the widely known viewpoint of the authorities on this issue is the attitude of the intellectual. this article is intended to criticize this reason and in the end to prove...

Image orientation and object reconstruction tasks in photogrammetry are generally based on distinct points. However, in 3D object space besides points there are also lines (straight or curved) and surfaces (planar or curved), which are increasingly being available in digital data bases, and in 2D image space lines can be extracted, especially when automatic procedures of image analysis are used...

In this issue of Neuron, Xie et al. (2013) identified protein phosphatase 4c (PP4c) as a new component in the regulation of spindle orientation during mammalian neurogenesis. Importantly, their findings uncovered a novel and critical temporal aspect of the regulation of spindle orientation during neurogenesis.

ions, it is arguable that his own level of abstraction and technicality makes his work difficult to translate in to anything other than a most general political programme. On the other hand, it may be precisely this 'difficulty' that enables Whitehead's work to be such a rich and influential resource for other critics.3 There is no question for example, as I will be discussing below, of the imp...

Octopuses can readily be taught to distinguish between objects that differ in surface texture, or in taste. But they cannot be taught to recognize the distribution of irregularities on the surface of objects, or to discriminate between objects that differ only in weight (Wells, 1961a, 19636, Wells & Wells, 1956, 1957). In visual experiments the animals can recognize the orientation of things th...