A standard requirement of rationality is that preferences obey stochastic dominance. In this paper, we investigate a new variety of dominance violation from the domain of uncertainty. We find that subjects systematically value a packed prospect, $x if one of two mutually exclusive events E1 or E2 obtains, less than an unpacked and dominated prospect, $x if E1 obtains, and $x−ε if E2 obtains. We...

English language teaching market (ELT) inundated with course book packages containing astudent’s book, a teacher’s guide, workbooks, CD’s, videos, and test materials. A host ofresearchers have focused on course book evaluation and analysis and considered the selectionand evaluation of materials as an essential procedure in order to enhance out comes for thelearners who use them. This study thru...

This document contains requirements for Trial 2 the final Prospect trial. The requirements come from various sources; end-user’s in Prospect Trial 1 and a set of Trial 1 assessors have evaluated the Trial 1 system and suggested enhancements and extensions for Trial 2; implementors have likewise provided feedback; additionally the Prospect Consortium has decided new directions to follow for the ...

This report describes the design, implementation and analysis of a non-blocking halo exchange routine as an alternative to the blocking halo exchange routine in the lattice Boltzmann code Ludwig. The alternative non-blocking routine is implemented in such a way to allow workcommunication overlap. Detailed benchmarks in this report show that the non-blocking version is a good alternative with so...

We present a descriptive model of choice with normative foundations based on how the brain is thought to represent value. An individual’s behavior is fully described by two primitives: an individual’s expectation and one free parameter we call “predisposition”. The model captures the same apparent preference phenomena illustrated by Prospect Theory but unlike Prospect Theory accounts for indivi...

Four experiments examine blocking of associative learning by human participants in a disease diagnosis procedure. The results indicate that after a cue is blocked, subsequent learning about the cue is attenuated. This attenuated learning after blocking is obtained for both standard blocking and for backward blocking. Attenuated learning after blocking cannot be accounted for by theories such as...

Communication protocols issues are one of the effective factors in communicated networks performance. One of challenging problem in CMT-SCTP which sends data by multipath concurrently is Receive Buffer Blocking. This problem has important role in data transmission speed in computer networks. In this paper, we propose a control method based on fuzzy logic so that can solve Receive Buffer Blockin...

Nuclear level densities and spin cut-off factors have been deduced for nuclei in the mass region 24‹A‹63,from a microscopic theory, which includes nuclear pairing interaction. Single particle levels for both Seeger and Nilsson potentials were used in the calcdations. Level densities extracted from the theory are compared with their conesponding experimental values, It is found that the overall...