if the agent, who has the right to appoint a proxy, exercises his right and appoints another person for pursuing the subject of agency, the appointed person is not the agent of the appointer; rather, he is regarded as the indirect agent of the client. therefore, if the object of agency is conclusion of a transaction contract and the indirect proxy concludes it, that [contract] belongs to the cl...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to sincerely thank my research advisor, Dr. Daniel A. Reed, for his kind guidance and support along the development of this thesis. Thank him for providing me with this opportunity to benefit from his knowledge. I would like to thank the members of the Pablo group who have helped and encouraged me in my work. I would like to thank Eric Shaffer, Don Schmidt and Jim Oly fo...

Jin Liu 1,2, Wenxiang Zhao 1,2,*, Jinghua Ji 1,2, Guohai Liu 1,2 and Tao Tao 1,2 1 School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China; [email protected] (J.L.); [email protected] (J.J.); [email protected] (G.L.); [email protected] (T.T.) 2 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drive and Intelligent Control for Electric Vehicle, Zhenjiang 212013, China * Corresponde...

With the support of the comprehensive review in Liu et al. [14], we consider dependency distance minimization to be firmly established as a quantitative property of syntactic trees. In this comment, we consider future empirical and theoretical directions for this concept, including a recent information-theoretic reinterpretation of dependency locality effects as proposed by Futrell and Levy [4].

An agent is unsure of the state of the world and faces computational bounds on mental processing. He gets signals imperfectly correlated with the true state that he will use to take a single decision. The agent has a finite number of “states of mind” that quantify his beliefs about the relative likelihood of the states. At a random stopping time, the agent will be called upon to make a decision...

Our report discusses a patient diagnosed with PAN since 3 years ago. He presented with fever, chills and nonproductive cough. He was a long time receiver of immunosuppressant drugs for his underlying condition. Upon examination he was febrile, had cushingoid appearance and cackles in both lungs. Lung CT scan showed opacities in right upper lobe lung and multiple bilateral nodules and ground gla...

I show that persistent underconfidence and overconfidence each arise from rational learning about one’s own abilities. If an agent chooses to exert more effort when more confident and believes that greater effort reliably improves outcomes, then the agent learns away overconfidence faster than he learns away underconfidence. The agent ends up underconfident on average. In contrast, the agent en...

We present two probabilistic patrolling strategies for a single agent patrolling an undirected graph. A single ant-like agent with very low capabilities is considered, the agent have small memory and he can sense only its neighborhood. However, he may mark the graph vertices with pheromone stamps which can later be sensed. These markings are used as a primitive form of distributed memory. The f...