Relational learning research has highlighted a close functional overlap between the outcomes of studies with pseudowords and natural language processing effects. The key phenomenon from relational learning research is called stimulus equivalence, which shows that after learning a series of inter-connected, conditional (i.e., if-then) unidirectional relations among physically dissimilar pseudowo...

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OBJECTIVES To assess and compare patient perceived quality of osteoarthritis (OA) management in primary healthcare in Denmark, Norway, Portugal and the UK. METHODS Participants consulting with clinical signs and symptoms of knee OA were identified in 30 general practices and invited to complete a cross-sectional survey including quality indicators (QI) for OA care. A QI was considered as elig...

We show that a qubit can be used to substitute for a classical analog system requiring an arbitrarily large number of classical bits to represent digitally. Let a physical system S interact locally with a classical field varphi(x) as S travels directly from point A to point B. Our task is to use S to answer a simple yes/no question about varphi(x). If S is a qubit, the task can be done perfectl...

Evidence that learning rule-based (RB) and information-integration (II) category structures can be dissociated across different experimental variables has been used to support the view that such learning is supported by multiple learning systems. Across 4 experiments, we examined the effects of 2 variables, the delay between response and feedback and the informativeness of feedback, which had p...

During conversation, there is often little gap between interlocutors' utterances. In two pairs of experiments, we manipulated the content predictability of yes/no questions to investigate whether listeners achieve such coordination by (i) preparing a response as early as possible or (ii) predicting the end of the speaker's turn. To assess these two mechanisms, we varied the participants' task: ...

Based on the daily records on turkeys' mortalities for the series of flocks placed on different farms in a relatively compact geographical area for the period of approximately 2 yr and other relevant explanatory variables, the goal of the research was to design a decision model to determine whether or not to use the fluorquinolone antibiotic, sarafloxacin, to prevent spiking mortality of turkey...

bit strings can aaord important advantages. Third, limiting each string to one oospring per generation can increase success rates over unlimited reproduction. Fourth, certain kinds of premature convergence in GAs are artifacts of the impoverished environments in which they are tested. More speciically; insertion of introns was demonstrated to produce as much as a tenfold increase in successful ...

Atomic commitment protocols are used to ensure the atomicity of atomic transactions. The best known and most widely used atomic commitment protocol is two phase commit (2PC). The main idea behind 2PC is to perform two rounds of voting under the guidance of a site acting as coordinator. The coordinator asks first for votes on whether to commit (yes vote) or abort (no vote) the transaction. The p...

Motion Predicates and the Compounding Parameter: A New Approach William Snyder University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories University of Maryland,15 April 2005 1. Background 1.1 Talmy’s Verb-framed/Satellite-framed Typology (1) Talmy (1985, 1991, 2000) distinguishes between “satellite-framed” (Englishtype) languages and “verb-framed” (Spanish-type) languages. (2) In English, path is norm...