Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity is the tendency for relations between groups to be more competitive than relations between individuals. We examined whether the discontinuity effect arises in part because group members experience normative pressure to favor the ingroup (parochialism). Building on the notion that accountability enhances normative pressure, we hypothesized that the discon...

Introduction 2 0.1. Some theorems in mathematics with snappy model-theoretic proofs 2 1. Languages, structures, sentences and theories 2 1.1. Languages 2 1.2. Statements and Formulas 5 1.3. Satisfaction 6 1.4. Elementary equivalence 7 1.5. Theories 8 2. Big Theorems: Completeness, Compactness and Löwenheim-Skolem 9 2.1. The Completeness Theorem 9 2.2. Proof-theoretic consequences of the complet...

1 Shigang YUE is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation from Beijing Polytechnic University. Abstract The vibration induced in a deformable object upon automatic handling by robot manipulators can often be bothersome. This paper presents a force/torque sensorbased method for handling deformable linear objects (DLOs) in a manner suitable to eliminate acute vibration. An...

Holling (1992) suggested the texturaldiscontinuity hypothesis (TDH) as an explanation for the clumped body-mass distributions he observed for mammals and birds. The TDH states that the discontinuous structure of a landscape should dictate the sizes of the animals that inhabit it. Holling (1992) characterized landscapes in terms of their hierarchical habitat structure, proceeding from finely tex...

This paper examines the learnability of a major subclass of E-pattern languages – also known as erasing or extended pattern languages – in Gold’s learning model: We show that the class of terminal-free E-pattern languages is inferrable from positive data if the corresponding terminal alphabet consists of three or more letters. Consequently, the recently presented negative result for binary alph...

This paper is concerned with tile treatment of discontinuous constituency within Categorial Grammar. In particular, I address the problem of providing an adequate formalisation of categorial commctives l)rol)osed by Moortgat (1988), which are useful for handling certain forms of diseontimmus eonstitnency, l)espite some interesting proposals, a satisfactory logic for these e{mnectives has so far...

Continuity and discontinuity in learning refer to the problem of whether there are qualitative changes in the fundamental mechanisms that govern learning. This question has been examined in the literature in two separate but related ways. The first approach examines whether qualitative breaks occur with increasing expertise or additional learning, and was conducted mostly prior to the 1980s usi...

Measures for the degree of non-projectivity of dependency grammar have received attention both on the formal and on the empirical side. The empirical characterization of discontinuity in constituent treebanks annotated with crossing branches has nevertheless been neglected so far. In this paper, we present two measures for the characterization of both the discontinuity of constituent structures...

This paper proposes a single multiresolution framework for both surface "tting and discontinuities identi"cation in the surface reconstruction problem. In particular, the Mallat}Zhong wavelet transform modulus maxima (WTMM) representation is employed for representing the surface which allows the discontinuity detection and surface "tting to be carried out simultaneously in a cooperative manner ...