This paper describes the implementation of a system that reminds the user of the telephone number of a given list, even if the user only remembers part of it, or if the given number contains a series of exchanged digits. The system’s input consists of a telephone number (composed by digits from 0 to 9), containing from zero up to several generic digits (asterisks, in this case). The system proc...

4 Preferential structures 28 4.1 General and smooth preferential structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.1.1 Definitions and basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.1.2 Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 [email protected], www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/dg Department of Computer Science, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2...

This study argues that diminishing marginal impatience (DMI ) as an intuitively plausible behavioural assumption of endogenous time preference has the potential for resolving important issues like the equity premium puzzle. It shows that, while applied to a model in the traditional overlapping generations (OG) framework, DMI is capable of generating assets prices with magnitude and volatility h...

two physicians, both grown up in west europe, educated also in this area (supplemented by many visits of the united states), travelled 20 years ago to japan for scientific reasons and they changed thereafter in their mental sight of the world. in a first part, the neurophysiologic basis of sensation from the sensory receptor up to the cerebral cortex (“bottom up”), the mechanisms of building me...

the human prefrontal cortex differs from all other mammals: the seat of complex cognition, abstract thinking, planning and future forecasting, and behavioral inhibition. using our prefrontal cortex is a significant energy drain on the body, so despite its impressive capabilities, it’s daily capacity is limited. some researchers estimate a mere 2-3 hours per day of activity depletes the prefront...

Throughout the past 15 years, researchers have explored self-defining memories within the larger category of autobiographical memories (Conway, Singer, & Tagini, 2004; Singer, 2005; Singer & Salovey, 2003; Wood & Conway, 2006). Other researchers have examined the physiological reactions to various stimuli, some related to autobiographical memory (Gross & Levenson, 1997; Levenson & Gottman, 1983...

To explore the significance of repeated memories for individuals' personal histories, we compared the characteristics of young adults' unique and repeated memories of childhood experiences. Memory type (unique vs. repeated) was a within-participant variable. In Experiment 1, college-age participants generated as many early memories as possible in 4 minutes; in Experiment 2, another sample provi...

It is well established that cAMP signaling within neurons plays a major role in the formation of long-term memories--signaling thought to proceed through protein kinase A (PKA). However, here we show that exchange protein activated by cAMP (Epac) is able to enhance the formation of long-term memory in the hippocampus and appears to do so independent of PKA, thus demonstrating the importance of ...

A fundamental assumption made by the advocates of CMI is that commercially derived technologies, products, and processes increasingly are at least equivalent and often superior to those developed in the military sector. Skeptics, however, accuse CMI advocates of “cherry picking” a few obvious technology areas such as integrated circuits or microprocessors where great advances have been made in ...

Raising domestic tax revenues is a priority for most sub-Saharan African countries. But the tax bases in most African countries are undermined by widespread tax avoidance and evasion. A new study from CMI supports the claim that improved knowledge about the tax system makes a difference in people’s willingness to pay tax. The study shows that exposure to Value-AddedTax (VAT) makes people take a...