The idea is proposed that whereas perceptual experience is underconstant in one sense, it is virtually constant insofar as it is functionally stable and predictable. The possibility of distinguishing perception and cognition is explored in experiments on the perception of surface orientation. These experiments are related to the study of selfmotion perception and space perception. An experiment...

The mapping class group of a surface with one boundary component admits numerous interesting representations including as a group of automorphisms of a free group and as a group of symplectic transformations. Insofar as the mapping class group can be identified with the fundamental group of Riemann’s moduli space, it is furthermore identified with a subgroup of the fundamental path groupoid upo...

Introduction Modern decision theory is full of talk about subjective probabilities and utilities. While these concepts fill something like the functional roles traditionally filled by belief and desire in philosophical discourse, the relationship between the old and new realizers is usually left unclear. A central piece of this puzzle is the relationship between subjective probability and belie...

The most well-established finding gleaned from decades of experimental hypnosis research is that individuals display marked variability in responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions. Insofar as this va...

clinical pharmacy is deemed an integral component of a health care system. the presence of clinical pharmacists in medical rounds could assist physicians in optimizing patients' pharmacotherapy. moreover, clinical pharmacists may reduce adverse effects and medication errors insofar as they contribute significantly to the detection and management of drug-related problems, not least in patients w...

In this paper, we present some common fixed point theorems for two generalized nonexpansive multivalued mappings in CAT(0) spaces as well as in UCED Banach spaces. Moreover, we prove the existence of fixed points for generalized nonexpansive multivalued mappings in complete geodesic metric spaces with convex metric for which the asymptotic center of a bounded sequence in a bounded closed convex...

This paper presents novel dissimilarity space specially designed for interactive multimedia retrieval. By providing queries made of positive and negative examples, the goal consists in learning the positive class distribution. This classification problem is known to be asymmetric, i.e. the negative class does not cluster in the original feature spaces. We introduce here the idea of Query-based ...

1. Ordered Sets, Ordered Fields, and Completeness 1 1.1. Lecture 1: January 5, 2016 1 1.2. Lecture 2: January 7, 2016 4 1.3. Lecture 3: January 11, 2016 7 1.4. Lecture 4: January 14, 2014 9 2. Sequences and Limits 13 2.1. Lecture 5: January 19, 2016 13 2.2. Lecture 6: January 21, 2016 15 2.3. Lecture 7: January 26, 2016 18 2.4. Lecture 8: January 28, 2016 21 3. Extensions of R: the Extended Rea...

As an old lighthouse (PHAROS in ancient Greek) provided a proper navigation tool for people to find their route when lost at sea, in the same way PHAROS will ensure the right way to navigate in the modern enormous information ocean.