[N]o amount of telling somebody in mere words that one is or is not angry is the same as what one might tell them by gesture or tone of voice .... Anyhow, it is all nonsense. I mean, the notion that language is made of words is all nonsense -and when I said that gestures could not be translated into "mere words/' I was talking nonsense, because there is no such thlng as "mere words" ... Gregory...

Passive exposure to neutral stimuli increases subsequent liking of those stimuli--the mere exposure effect. Because of the broad implications for understanding and controlling human preferences, the role of conscious awareness in mere exposure has received much attention. Previous studies have claimed that the mere exposure effect can occur without conscious awareness of the stimuli. In two exp...

The proof identity problem asks: When are two proofs the same? The question naturally occurs when one reflects on mathematical practice. The problem understandably can be seen as a challenge for mathematical logic, and indeed various perspectives on the problem can be found in the proof theory literature. From the proof theory perspective, the challenge is met by laying down new calculi that el...

Intentional binding refers to the fact that when a voluntary action produces a sensory outcome, action and outcome are perceived as being closer together in time. This phenomenon is often attributed, at least partially, to predictive motor mechanisms. However, previous studies failed to unequivocally attribute intentional binding to these mechanisms, since the contrasts that have been used to d...

Bidirectional topologies are usually preferred over unidirectional ones. However, recent works have demonstrated that RUFT, a traffic-balancing routing algorithm on a Unidirectional Multistage Network (UMIN), can perform as well as a Bidirectional Multistage Network, but significantly reducing both implementation and operating costs. RUFT is a simplification of the k-ary n-tree topology, the mo...

one of the most important and disputable problems in philosophy of religion is “the problem of evil”. at the course of the history, theologians have put forward different solutions to this problem. one of them which have been propounded by some western philosophers and almost all islamic philosophers, is called the doctrine of “inexistency of evils” so the main purpose of this article is as fol...

a Nichols L. Are pathologists becoming mere technicians? [editorial]. How many hours each workday do you spend interacting with a computer screen instead of a person? As a pathologist, if you are signing out digital slides, flow cytometry or molecular diagnostic tests, interacting with a computer screen instead of a human being probably takes up most of your workday. Looking at glass slides is ...