How do you aggregate the preferences of multiple agents in a fair manner? This is a question that has occupied researchers for several centuries. Suppose we have k voters who each give their preferences on n candidates. How should the candidates be ranked to best represent the input? Marquis de Condorcet [5] showed that there may not exist a “winner”: a candidate who beats all other candidates ...

The Springer-Praxis Popular Astronomy programme covers the latest observations, techniques and discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, selecting key topics designed to fire the imagination of keen astronomers everywhere. Many of the topics selected for titles in this programme are refreshingly new, and away from the accepted mainstream of titles published in this area. Topics inc...

that the dynamic psychology of human behaviour has a part to play in the interpretation and understanding of that behaviour, and an important function in solving its inter-personal inter-national and social aberrations, then we must take note of this growing demand for "popular" knowledge. We must be prepared to put over our knowledge in a way that is helpful and understanding, yet stimulating ...

Since the cognitive turn in metaphor studies late 1970s, has been seen as a phenomenon reflecting how we think, alongside its classic role powerful literary device. This ‘cognitive turn’ makes it possible to investigate two facets: one and linguistic one. In this tenet, notion of features intertwined parts: conceptual metaphors which resemble mental connections between different knowledge packe...

In the literature several approaches have been proposed for extracting word translations from comparable corpora, almost all of them based on the idea of context similarity. This work addresses the aforementioned issue for the English-Basque pair in a popular science domain. The main tasks our experiments focus on include: designing a method to combine some of the existing approaches, adapting ...

This paper presents findings from quantitative analyses of UK press and print media coverage of evolutionary psychology during the 1990s. It argues that evolutionary psychology presents an interesting case for studies of science in the media in several different ways. First, press coverage of evolutionary psychology was found to be closely linked with the publications of popular books on the su...

Robotic competitions for students have been around for more than two decades. Although the benefits of these competitions can be exploited at various levels of education, recent examples have been following a trend towards higher complexity. In order to bring the pedagogical advantages of robotics competitions down to a level where they can be exploited by undergraduate and high school students...