In previous work [1] we presented a framework for the specification of open computational societies i.e. societies where the behaviour of the members and their interactions cannot be predicted in advance. We viewed computational systems from an external perspective, with a focus on the institutional and the social aspects of these systems. The social constraints and roles of the open societies ...

CVXPY [DCB14] is a new modeling language for convex optimization that allows users to easily express and solve convex optimization problems using the Python programming language. The package is inspired by CVX [GB14, GB08], a similar project implemented for the MATLAB programming environment. The primary goal of this project was to create a library of example programs for CVXPY. The author aims...

Commenting on perceptual similarities between objects stands out as an important linguistic achievement, one that may pave the way towards noticing and commenting on more abstract relational commonalities between objects. To explore whether having a conventional linguistic system is necessary for children to comment on different types of similarity comparisons, we observed four children who had...

The study explores the difficulties of native English speakers in acquiring the Chinese word order, aiming to relate it to the markedness theories. According to the Differential Markedness Hypothesis (DMH), the degrees of learner difficulty in second language acquisition can be predicted according to the degrees of typological markedness between learners’ first language (L1) and their second la...

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Like Howard (2004), I believe it is important to use precise language in our field and that our language should be “plain speaking,” familiar, and fundamental. Precise language makes it easier for us to communicate with each other and easier for students, clients, and others to grasp the ideas of decision analysis. Howard proposes some “modest” changes to our language that he suggests “will mak...

This is the extended version of a Comment submitted to Physical Review Letters. I first point out the inappropriateness of publishing a Letter unrelated to physics. Next, I give experimental results showing that the technique used in the Letter is 3 times worse and 17 times slower than a simple baseline. And finally, I review the literature, showing that the ideas of the Letter are not novel. I...

It was a pleasure to read the article from Verret et al. in recent issue of Anesthesiology.1 The main prerequisites high-quality systematic review were met; however, some considerations about patient, intervention, comparison, and study design approach applied conclusion must be addressed. outcomes meta-analysis pooled results highly divergent procedures, endoscopic procedures major surgeries. ...