“Trolls” individuals who engage in malicious behavior are a common occurrence within online communities. Yet simply banning accounts associated with trolls is often ineffective as individuals may register new accounts under pseudonyms and resume their activity. In this paper, we demonstrate how this can be addressed through a behavioral trace. Specifically, we show that by analyzing the posts o...

To this day, most generative discussions of wh-constructions assume that Superiority Effects (SEs) are the norm, to be explained by principles of UG, and that SUVs are a secondary phenomenon, to be analyzed via D-Linking, or some other mechanism peripheral to the central concerns of grammatical theory. In the alternative approach to SUVs considered here, examples like (1b) and (2) are all treat...

Current banking systems do not aim to protect user privacy. Purchases made from a single bank account can be linked to each other by many parties. This could be addressed in a straightforward way by generating unlinkable credentials from a single master credential using Camenisch and Lysyanskaya’s algorithm; however, if bank accounts are taxable, some report must be made to the tax authority ab...

3 We integrate appealing features of Markowitz’s mean-variance portfolio theory (MVT) 4 and Shefrin and Statman’s behavioral portfolio theory (BPT) into a new mental accounting 5 (MA) framework. Features of the MA framework include an MA structure of portfolios, 6 a definition of risk as the probability of failing to reach the threshold level in each mental 7 account, and attitudes toward risk ...

the purpose of this research is to evaluate the effective factors on relational marketing in mature relationships between buyer-seller. transaction versus relationship has been considered as a very important topic for research. in this research, marketing strategies are evaluated from two perspectives. the first view is marketing mix management (transactional marketing). transactional marketing...

Some assertions are epistemically defective. True story: Shortly after moving to South Bend, Malou mentioned that she was surprised to see so many gulls around town. I thought for a moment, then replied: “You know, those birds fly all the way over here from Lake Michigan.” Unfortunately, knowledgeable Mark overheard my assertion, and promptly said: “You don’t know what you’re talking about. Our...

Economists have traditionally eschewed direct measures of well-being on methodological grounds: the private nature of experience and the discomfort of making interpersonal comparisons. Instead, income is often used as a proxy for opportunities and well-being. If people are not fully rational, however, their choices will not necessarily maximize their experienced utility, and increasing their op...

2 Research plan 3 2.1 Current state of research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1 The dominant internalist account of rationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.2 Externalist challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Current state of our research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

g0005 Neural correlates of consciousness – They are defined by Christoph Koch as ‘‘The minimal set of neuronal mechanisms or events jointly sufficient for a specific conscious percept or experience.’’ They allow to avoid the difficult problem of directly looking for neural bases. g0010 Panpsychism – Reflects the philosophical doctrine that everything (in Greek, ‘pan’) has a mind (‘psyche’) and ...

in the safavid period, as opposed to previous periods such as the timurid era, there is not any discussion of organology in musical treatises and authors had just referred to the name of some instruments. thus, in order to investigate in this field, it is necessary to study other worthwhile historical sources. in the discussed historical period, there are lots of travel accounts which contain i...