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Dogs have evolved to become the animal species most integrated with human society. Surprisingly, the origins and mechanisms of the remarkable co-evolution are still obscure and provide fuel for debates. Brain imaging studies showing up similarities and recent results implicating the hormone oxytocin also suggest that it makes sense to compare the social mind of dogs to our own. Michael Gross re...

Linguistics and automata theory were at one time tightly knit. Very early on, finite-state processes were used by Markov [35, 27] to predict sequences of vowels and consonants in novels by Pushkin. Shannon [48] extended this idea to predict letter sequences of English words using Markov processes. While many theorems about finite-state acceptors (FSAs) and finite-state transducers (FSTs) were p...

Introduction: Pharmacological neuroenhancement (PN) is a topic of increasing importance and prevalence among students. However, there lack differentiating PN substances, according to their psychoactive effects. In particular, data about by caffeinated drinks, even if coffee common broadly used Neuroenhancer because its cognitively enhancing effects regarding wakefulness, alertness concentration...