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Magical Th inking

Every day we are confronted with a variety of events for which we clearly know the cause. We’re hungry because we were in a hurry and missed breakfast. Sue realizes that John is mad at her because she forgot to meet him after work. But for other events the causes are less evident. Why does the house creak at night? Is it because of changes in the weather conditions, strong winds, or some other ...

Moral Th inking

This chapter presents several current models of moral thinking, with a focus on the cognitive processes that support people’s moral judgments and justifications. These models are not mutually exclusive; rather, based on recent evidence from psychology and neuroscience, they posit different cognitive processes as the primary source of moral thinking. This chapter therefore does not quantify the ...

Poland's environmental docs.

a corresponding flux from the ocean to the atmosphere. This effect might lessen or negate the benefits to stratospheric ozone from a reduction in anthropogenic emissions of methyl bromide. In terms of costs to society from the ban, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation estimates growers in its state stand to lose $340 million per year in crop damage. Duafala says no single alternati...

DOCS: Domain-Aware Crowdsourcing System

Crowdsourcing is a new computing paradigm that harnesses human effort to solve computer-hard problems, such as entity resolution and photo tagging. The crowd (or workers) have diverse qualities and it is important to effectively model a worker’s quality. Most of existing worker models assume that workers have the same quality on different tasks. In practice, however, tasks belong to a variety o...

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