Abnormalities in reward and punishment processing are implicated in the development of conduct problems (CP), particularly among youth with callous-unemotional (CU) traits. However, no studies have examined whether CP children with high versus low CU traits exhibit differences in the neural response to reward and punishment. A clinic-referred sample of CP boys with high versus low CU traits (ag...

This paper studies the effects of the structural variables of the Iranian industries sector on the welfare cost using to the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) theory. In other words, we investigate the role of structural components and their effects on the size of the welfare cost in Iran's industry sector. We have used the Leibenstein's model to calculate the deadweight loss and then the pan...

We argue the case for a new paradigm for architecting structured P2P overlay networks, coined AESOP. AESOP consists of 3 layers: (i) an architecture, PLANES, that ensures significant performance speedups, assuming knowledge of altruistic peers; (ii) an accounting/auditing layer, AltSeAl, that identifies and validates altruistic peers; and (iii) SeAledPLANES, a layer that facilitates the coordin...

The GAMMA programming paradigm is based on the multiset datastructure. In this model a succession of chemical reactions consume the elements of the multiset or multiset of tuples , and produce new elements according to specific rules. This paper describes how the Gamma paradigm can be integrated with the entity-relationship (ER) model to structure parallel and distributed programs. Such an inte...

Recently, self-supervised pre-training has advanced Vision Transformers on various tasks w.r.t. different data modalities, e.g., image and 3D point cloud data. In this paper, we explore learning paradigm for mesh analysis based Transformers. Since applying Transformer architectures to new modalities is usually non-trivial, first adapt processing, i.e., Mesh Transformer. specific, divide a into ...

Trust pervades the economic and societal interactions on which the Information Society is built. This paper applies economic analysis to issues of trust and identifies trust considerations affecting market structure, conduct and performance. The analysis highlights the impact of ISTs and the impact on a range of stakeholders.

the study was carried out to develop an efficient approach for prediction the genotoxicity of carbon nanotubes. the experimental data on the bacterial reverse mutation test (ta100) on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) was collected from the literature and examined as an endpoint. by means of the optimal descriptors calculated with the monte carlo method a mathematical model of the endpoint...

We describe two market-inspired approaches to propositional satisfiability. Whereas a previous market-inspired approach exhibited extremely slow performance, we find that variations on the pricing method with a simplified market structure can improve performance significantly. We compare the performance of the new protocols with the previous market protocol and with the distributed breakout alg...