Two experiments investigated whether the triadic interaction between objects, ourselves and other persons modulates motor system activation during language comprehension. Participants were faced with sentences formed by a descriptive part referring to a positive or negative emotively connoted object and an action part composed of an imperative verb implying a motion toward the self or toward ot...

BACKGROUND Lifetime co-occurrence of violence victimisation is common. A large proportion of victims report being exposed to multiple forms of violence (physical, sexual, emotional violence) and/or violence by multiple kinds of perpetrators (family members, intimate partners, acquaintances/strangers). Yet much research focuses on only one kind of victimisation. The aim of this study was to inve...

We present an architectural framework for systematically using automated diversity to provide high assurance detection and disruption for large classes of attacks. The framework executes a set of automatically diversified variants on the same inputs, and monitors their behavior to detect divergences. The benefit of this approach is that it requires an attacker to simultaneously compromise all s...

I very much enjoyed reading this paper. The basic message that I took away was that by and large different banks rate a given borrower in pretty much the same way. While we do see differences, on the whole at least to my eye these differences are generally small. I therefore read the paper as basically good news for the New Basel Capital Accord. If we want to worry about any of the results in t...

It is an accepted fact of academic life that some papers, in whatever discipline and wherever published, will never be cited. Empirical support for this can be found in studies such as those reported by Glanzel (1992), Rousseau (1994), and Egghe (2000) where the distribution of the time of first citation is investigated. In all cases, it is assumed that never-citation is connected with the perc...