A counterintuitive and theoretically important pattern of results in the visual word recognition literature is that both word frequency and stimulus quality produce large but additive effects in lexical decision performance. The additive nature of these effects has recently been called into question by Masson and Kliegl (in press), who used linear mixed effects modeling to provide evidence that...

This study directly tests the hypothesis that, at least within the domains of food and drink for Americans, the judgment of naturalness has more to do with the history of an object, that is the processes that it has undergone, as opposed to its material content. Individuals rate the naturalness and acceptability of a natural entity (water or tomato paste), that same entity with a first transfor...

Feature transformation is an important process following feature extraction for improving classification performance. It has been frequently addressed in the kernel-based framework utilizing non-linear kernel functions, and the additive kernel equipped with explicit feature mapping works as efficient and effective (non-linear) feature transformation. The kernel functions, however, are defined i...

A strategy for simultaneous sire and cow evaluation of genetic merit was implemented. First lactation records of 1,074,971 Holstein cows in 20,065 herds were included. After inclusion of ancestors, there were 1,741,356 equations: 1,505,938 cow, 229,394 herd-year-season, 6000 sire, and 24 genetic group equations. All known genetic relationships among animals were considered. Genetic group coeffi...

Recently a number of authors have questioned both the validity and utility of inclusive fitness. One particular claim is that Hamilton’s rule applies only to additive games. Additive games represent a vanishingly small subset of all games and do not capture a number of interesting qualitative behaviours which are present in non-additive games. Thus, if these criticisms were correct, inclusive f...

the catalytic cracking of a fuel oil over fluid catalytic cracking (fcc) catalyst has been investigated applying different additives. catalyst mixtures consisting of a equilibrium fcc catalyst (e-cat) blended with zsm-5, mcm-41 and mordenite additives were examined at the additive levels of 25 wt.%. the catalytic performance of the matrix was studied in a fixed bed micro-activity test unit (mat...

fruity teas are popular due to variety in sensory properties as well as their nutritional and therapeutical characteristics. recently, the worldwide researches related to fruity teas have been considerably developed. in this work, effects of fruit type (apple, quince and pear) and brewing time (10 or 20 min) on some nutritional properties (mg, fe and ca contents, sugars and protein percent) as ...