Qualitative calculi play a central role in representing and reasoning about qualitative spatial and temporal knowledge. This paper studies distributive subalgebras of qualitative calculi, which are subalgebras in which (weak) composition distributives over nonempty intersections. It has been proven for RCC5 and RCC8 that path consistent constraint network over a distributive subalgebra is alway...

Do previous trajectories of Federal Supreme Court justices influence their votes in court? Despite recent advances research on judicial behavior, questions remain about the factors influencing decisions STF justices. Building a new typology these justices' career paths, this article tests hypothesis that professional characteristics influenced behavior judging Ação Penal 470, criminal case know...

Few empirical efforts have been devoted to differentiating status and power, and thus significant questions remain about differences in how status and power impact social encounters. We conducted 5 studies to address this gap. In particular, these studies tested the prediction that status and power would have opposing effects on justice enacted toward others. In the first 3 studies, we directly...

Empirical studies of judicial decision-making tend to focus on explaining why individual judges often come to different conclusions. The dominant understanding of decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court is the ideologically based policy preferences of the justices, with related studies showing that American justices often make strategic choices to ensure the Court’s decisions reflect their pr...

in this paper, we firstly show that the $n$-dual operation of the right residual implication, which is induced by a left-conjunctive right arbitrary $vee$-distributive left semi-uninorm, is the right residual coimplication induced by its $n$-dual operation. as a dual result, the $n$-dual operation of the right residual coimplication, which is induced by a left-disjunctive right arbitrary $wedge...