Computational models of trust typically assume that an assessment of the trustworthiness of an individual can be formed from learning from the outcomes of a sequence of atomic tasks, as well as other evidence such as reports from third parties. Further, they assume that an agent’s trustworthiness can be modelled by a single probability distribution. In this paper we explore alternative mechanis...

This study attempted to investigate the impact of teacher’s code-switching on the acquisition of a problematic grammatical structure, namely, object relative clauses, by intermediate EFL learners. Moreover, a secondary objective of the study was to determine the EFL learners’ attitudes and opinions regarding the effectiveness of teacher’s code-switching in their learning of a specific aspect of...

An internal model is a neural mechanism that can mimic the input-output properties of a controlled object such as a tool. Recent research interests have moved on to how multiple internal models are learned and switched under a given context of behavior. Two representative computational models for task switching propose distinct neural mechanisms, thus predicting different brain activity pattern...

this paper examines regime shifts in tedpix return and volatility and the effects of positive and negative crude oil shocks and gold price fluctuations on stock market shifts behavior using markov switching egarch model with student’s t-distribution. we detect two episodes of series behavior, one relative to low mean/high variance regime namely bear state and the other to high mean/low variance...

Linear flux switching motors with simple passive segmented secondary, referred as Segmented Secondary Linear Flux Switching Motors (SSLFSMs), have low cost secondary and therefore are applicable to transportation systems like Maglev. However, it is shown that the SSLFSMs suffer from high thrust ripples. In this paper, minimizing SSLFSM thrust ripples besides maximizing its developed thrust are ...

A large number of studies carried out on pupils aged 8–14 have shown that teachable agent (TA) based games are beneficial for learning. The present pioneering study aimed to initiate research looking at whether TA based games can be used as far down as preschool age. Around the age of four, theory of mind (ToM) is under development and it is not unlikely that a fully developed ToM is necessary ...

Increasing number of Internet users forced them to use popular services, television and telephone, to use the Internet as a medium to reach their customers. Organizations are now applying VoIP and MPLS for providing the convergence of voice and data communications over single network infrastructure. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) usage all over their branches, this reduces a huge amount of...

In this paper, Hamilton’s (1989) Markov-switching model is extended to the simultaneous equations model. Using a framework for an instrumental variable interpretation of full information maximum likelihood (FIML) by Hausman (1975), we can deal with the problem of simultaneous equations based on the Hamilton filter. When we compared the proposed FIML Markov-switching model to LIML Markovswitchin...

In this work a buck converter model for multidomain simulations is proposed and compared with a stateof-the-art buck converter model. In the proposed model no switching events are calculated. By avoiding the computation of the switching events in power electronic models the processing time of multi-domain simulations can be decreased significantly. The proposed model calculates any operation po...