Eliminacja lamerstwa. O społecznym użytkowaniu muzyki: Z Adamem Czechem rozmawia Anna Zawadzka [Eliminating cheesiness. The social use of music: Adam Czech interviewed by Anna Zawadzka]

Anna M

So far studies on language comprehension adopting the embodied and grounded perspective have underlined the similarities between language and action. In line with the idea of neural re-use, this chapter shows that language reflects some characteristics of action organization, but also that it builds on these characteristics, and modifies them in sophisticated ways. In the first part evidence is...

Anna Pajor

Multivariate models of asset returns are very important in financial applications. Asset allocation, risk assessment and construction of an optimal portfolio require estimates of the covariance matrix between the returns of assets (see e.g. Aguilar and West (2000), Pajor (2005a, 2005b)). Similarly, hedges require a covariance matrix of all the assets in the hedge. There are two main types of vo...

produce cultural universals Anna

Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these “cultural universals” is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...

Anna Paradowska , Anna Znamirowska - Bajowska , Janina Szeląg Facial

Binder’s syndrome develops in the first trimester of pregnancy and has characteristic effects on the facial features. Those effects are: arhinoid face, intermaxillary hypoplasia (associated with malocclusion), abnormal position of the nasal bones, nasal mucosa atrophy, anterior nasal spine agenesis and (in most cases) a lack of frontal sinuses. Other deformities, as well as mental retardation, ...

The Writings of Anna Freud