Due to their reliance on constitutive higher-order representing to generate the qualities of which the subject is consciously aware, I argue that the major existing higher-order representational theories of consciousness insulate us from our first-order sensory states. In fact on these views we are never properly conscious of our sensory states at all. In their place I offer a new higher-order ...

Covariance functions and variograms play a fundamental role in exploratory analysis and statistical modelling of spatial and spatio-temporal datasets. In this paper, we construct a new class of spatial covariance functions using the Fourier transform of some higher-order kernels. Moreover, we extend this class of spatial covariance functions to the spatio-temporal setting using the idea used in...

The generation of ideas and the subsequent promotion implementation these are important for organizational performance. Unfortunately, however, do not always turn into innovations. Based on ambidexterity theory leadership innovation, we argue that both employee idea relationship between one hand realization other, could benefit from leaders who display opening (fostering exploration) closing be...

Background The dementia diagnosis gap in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is large, partly due to difficulties in assessing function, an essential step in diagnosis. Objectives As part of the Identification and Intervention for Dementia in Elderly Africans (IDEA) study, to develop, pilot, and validate an Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) questionnaire for use in a rural Tanzanian populatio...

A No Reference (NR) image quality index based on fusion of three NR metrics by neural networks is proposed. The idea is to combine different NR metrics in order to estimate various distortions. We believe that there is no NR metric able to objectively estimate all the known distortions. Therefore, the idea of combining some distortion measures in order to evaluate image quality is of great bene...

Introduction. As, the importance of learning and study strategies in fostering academic achievement, which has generated a demand for assessing these behavior and because of the lack of information about the strategies use among college students, this study was determined to explore the learning and study strategies of medical, dentistry and pharmaceutics college students of Mashad University o...