What we cognite seems to us self-evident. In the very process of doing what I am doing, cognition appears to me as my immediate experience. I perform an act of knowledge when I act in a manner that I describe as a manipulation or handling of the world in which I exist. The cogito ergo sum of Descartes grasps this and gives to the experience of knowledge a central role: the cogito, the act of co...

‘Cogito, ergo sum’, said Descartes – ‘I think, therefore I am’. If he were living today, he might have said, ‘I feel, therefore I am’. We exist not only as thinking beings but also as feeling beings. Our feelings or emotions have a powerful effect on our behaviour – perhaps much more than our rational thinking does. In this article I describe the power of emotion at work, how emotional intellig...

AIM The aim of this study was to compare the maximal power output (POpeak) and force-velocity relationships in sprint cycling obtained from a laboratory protocol and from a field test during actual cycling locomotion. METHODS Seven male competitive cyclists performed 6 sprints (3 in the seated position and 3 in the standing position) on an ergo-trainer (Tacx, Netherlands) and 6 sprints during...

Henson and Reeves have recently proposed a new kernel logic, Z C HR98b, HR98a] for the Z Spi89] speciication language. They have proved that their logic is sound and have shown how a complete schema calculus can be derived within the logic. An important next step is to investigate the practicality of the logic, to determine whether it could be used to reason about typical Z speciications in a p...

Abstract A simple and cost - effective electrochemical synthesis of carbon based nanomaterials for biosensor is great challenge these days. Our study describes a single step deposition strategy to prepare nanocomposite electrochemically reduced graphene oxide (ErGO), multi walled nanotubes (MWCNTs), polypyrrole (PPy) in an aqueous solution pH 7.0 dopamine (DA) detection. The ErGO/MWCNTs/PPy nan...

What is left of the human being when the brain is badly damaged has been a question for philosophers and theologians. Now, however, an imaginative series of experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, culminating in the article by Monti and colleagues in this issue of the Journal,1 has revealed a form of preserved cognition in ostensibly unconscious patients. The...

Abstract Researchers have long documented a significant association between exposure to unfavorable working conditions and poorer occupational health safety. However, measures of exposures are often lacking from national international surveys. Drawing on research job-exposures matrices (JEMs) exploiting the Italian O*NET, we construct new indicator ergonomic at work (Ergo-Index) test its predic...

AC-completion efficiently handles equality modulo associative and commutative function symbols. When the input is ground, the procedure terminates and provides a decision algorithm for the word problem. In this paper, we present a modular extension of ground ACcompletion for deciding formulas in the combination of the theory of equality with user-defined AC symbols, uninterpreted symbols and an...