The results of two experiments support the thesis that emotional perspective taking entails two judgments: a prediction of one’s own preferences and decisions in a diVerent emotional situation, and an adjustment of this prediction to accommodate perceived diVerences between self and others. Participants overestimated others’ willingness to engage in embarrassing public performances—miming (Expe...

Supporting technologies play an important role in distributed data mining systems. The flexibility and the scalability of infrastructures and architectures can often determine the strength of a distributed data mining framework. In this paper we present some preliminary research work on a prototype for a distributed data miming framework. We shall show how the WebSocket API, which is a draft sp...

Previous research has shown that children benefit from gesturing during math instruction. We asked whether gesturing promotes learning because it is itself a physical action, or because it uses physical action to represent abstract ideas. To address this question, we taught third-grade children a strategy for solving mathematical-equivalence problems that was instantiated in one of three ways: ...

5 We present a new approach for the design of a synthetic biological circuit whose behaviour is specified in terms of signal temporal logic (STL) formulae. We first show how to characterise with STL formulae the input/output behaviour of biological modules miming the classical logical gates (AND, NOT, OR). Hence, we provide the regions of the parameter space for which these specifications are s...

Previous research has shown that children benefit from gesturing during math instruction. We asked whether gesturing promotes learning because it is itself a physical action, or because it uses physical action to represent abstract ideas. To address this question, we taught third-grade children a strategy for solving mathematical-equivalence problems that was instantiated in one of three ways: ...