Discussing the notion of “epistemic emotions” as proposed by Morton (2010), and his argument for which intellectual virtues will be “hard to attain” without those emotions, I introduce the thesis for which epistemic emotions constitute one of the building blocks of intellectual virtues, in order to provide an explanation of the cognitive process that binds the two. Epistemic emotions are buildi...

Most models of rational action assume that all possible states and actions are pre-defined and that preferences change only when beliefs do. But several decision and game problems lack these features, calling for a dynamic model of preferences: preferences can change when unforeseen possibilities come to light or when there is no specifiable or measurable change in belief. We propose a formally...

An experiment was conducted to assess the generality of navigation knowledge learned from interaction with the Degree-of-Interest (DOI) Tree. The degree of transfer of learning from the DOI Tree was compared to transfer of learning from a standard Internet Explorer browser. Twenty participants worked with either the DOI or Explorer browser in a Training Phase in which they performed information...

Certain aspects of the bacterial flora adhering to a dental explorer following a tactile diagnostic examination of a single tooth were investigated. Plaque present on the explorer was dislodged, and suspended into a reduced transport fluid by sonification. After serial dilution, suitable aliquots were placed on a high sucrose-containing medium, and on a mannitol medium. Colonies resembling Stre...

Evaluating the effectiveness of the visual design of an interface is an important yet challenging problem. In this paper, we introduce the VERP (Visualization of Eye movements with Recurrence Plots) Explorer, a visual analysis tool for exploring eye movements during visual-cognitive tasks. The VERP Explorer couples conventional visualizations of eye movements with recurrence plots that reveal p...

An analysis of the time correlation between Gamma-Ray Bursts from BATSE detector and EXPLORER Gravitational Wave Antenna data was performed from april 1991 to december 1996. A time interval of ±5 minutes around the trigger time of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) was explored. No significant excess of coincidences between GRBs and EXPLORER events with an energy of about 100 mK was found. This result all...

Overview RNA junctions are important structural elements of three or more helices in the organization of the global structure of RNA molecules [3, 4, 6]. A common motif among junctions is the coaxial stacking of helices [2, 3, 4, 9]. This motif occurs when two separate helical elements stack to form coaxial helices as a pseudo-continuous helix. In addition, analysis from solved crystal structur...

The analysis of the co-occurrence patterns between words allows to understand the use (and meaning) of words that are associated with different relationships. The quantification of these standards is a powerful tool in modern lexicography as well as in the construction of basic linguistic resources for the processing of natural language, or learning a language. The aim of this project is to dev...

Quantum anticipation explorer is a computer program allowing the numerical exploration of quantum anticipation which has been analyzed in arXiv:0810.183v1 and arXiv:1003.1090v1 for H-Atom, equidistant, random and custom spectra. This tool determines the anticipation strength at those times orthogonal evolution is possible. This paper is the user's guide explaining its capabilities, installation...

We introduce a new kind of tree automaton, a dependency tree automaton, that is suitable for deciding properties of classes of terms with binding. Two kinds of such automaton are defined, nondeterministic and alternating. We show that the nondeterministic automata have a decidable nonemptiness problem and leave as an open question whether this is true for the alternating version. The families o...