The meaning-maintenance model posits that threats to schemas lead people to affirm unrelated schemas. In two studies testing this hypothesis, participants who were presented with a perceptual anomaly (viz., the experimenter was switched without participants consciously noticing) demonstrated greater affirmation of moral beliefs compared with participants in a control condition. Another study in...

Words receive a signiicant part of their meaning from use in communicative settings. The formal mechanisms of lexical acquisition, as they apply to rich situational settings, may also be studied in the limited case of corpora of written texts. This work constitutes an approach to deriving semantic representations for lexemes using techniques from statistical induction. In particular, a number o...

AmbiKraf is a novel non-emissive animated fabric technology that is fast, color changing, and robust. Here we combine thermochromic ink with semiconductor heating/cooling technologies, embedded in soft fabrics. By developing a technology that makes the fabric itself change the color we present it as a ubiquitous display technology. We present our results through a various range of animated fabr...

Auditory hallucination is a positive symptom of schizophrenia and has significant impacts on the lives of individuals. People with auditory hallucination require considerable assistance from mental health professionals. Apart from medications, they may apply different lay methods to cope with their voice hearing. Results from qualitative interviews showed that people with schizophrenia in the C...

There are many programming situations where it would be convenient to conceal the meaning of code, or the meaning of certain variables. This can be achieved through program transformations which are grouped under the term obfuscation. This paper presents obfuscation methods for the purpose of concealing the meaning of matrices by changing the pattern of the elements. We give two separate method...

Th is article examines the history of the veil and its changing social meanings in Iran. Embedded in the meaning of the veil is the erotic meaning of female hair. Th e symbiotic relations of the “cover” (the veil) and the “covered” (female hair) are central to this history. Iranian political regimes have assigned to the veil meanings corresponding to their own ideologies. Th rough imposed unvei...

This research is entitled “Psychological Implications in Poetic Images of the Collection of: A Linguistic Study”. study discusses types meaning. Generally, meaning categorized into two parts: semantic and pragmatic Besides, it also interpretations artistic phenomena psychological implications shows their implications. Meaning generally a multidisciplinary sophisticated concept; hence has been d...