OBJECTIVE Among the influential cognitive factors in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), inferential confusion is a cognitive bias, which is described as the acceptance of possibilities as reality in contrast to sensory information. The present study aimed to determine the role of this construct in a clinical sample, and to test the cross-cultural validity of inferential confusion and to deter...

Some di cult conceptual problems that have plagued Statistical Mechanics from the start, are explained by reference to a very simple experiment, which also explains why the MAXENT formalism gives reliable predictions. Then some of the inner workings of MAXENT are revealed by a general perturbation theorem, showing how a prediction is modi ed by adding a new constraint. It is illustrated by the ...

A modified Quadratic Partial Least Squares (MQPLS) algorithm based on nonlinear constrained programming is proposed. Sequential Unconstrained Minimization Technique (SUMT) is employed to calculate the outer input weights and the parameters of inner relationship. It was found that MQPLS can not only explain more of the underlying variability of the data, but also has improved modelling and predi...

The current article represents the further validation of the construct of inferential confusion amongst clinical samples. Inferential confusion is proposed to be a meta-cognitive confusion particularly relevant to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that leads a person to confuse an imagined possibility with an actual probability. As such, it conceptualizes OCD as a form of belief disorder simi...

Despite the documented negative effects of roads on wildlife, ecological research on road effects has had comparatively little influence on road planning decisions. We argue that road research would have a larger impact if researchers carefully considered the relevance of the research questions addressed and the inferential strength of the studies undertaken. At a workshop at the German castle ...

The paper is a study of properties of quasi-consequence operation which is a key notion of the so-called inferential approach in the theory of sentential calculi established in [5].The principal motivation behind the quasi-consequence, q-consequence for short, stems from the mathematical practice which treats some auxiliary assumptions as mere hypotheses rather than axioms and their further occ...