منابع مشابه
Social Complexity: Can It Be Analyzed and Modelled?
A s many biological and social systems consist of a large number of interacting constituents and show complex emergent and self-organized properties in structure, function, and response, one might ask whether their complexity is in the number of key elements. The answer is "No" since for example from biology we have learned that humans have 46 chromosomes, while the potato we eat has 48 and the...
متن کاملCan unquantised articulatory feature continuums be modelled?
Articulatory feature (AF) modelling of speech has received a considerable amount of attention in automatic speech recognition research. Although termed ‘articulatory’, previous definitions make certain assumptions that are invalid, for instance, that articulators ‘hop’ from one fixed position to the next. In this paper, we studied two methods, based on support vector classification (SVC) and re...
متن کاملIt can be smart to be dumb
An important problem in game theory is why bounded rationality occurs, e.g., why altruism to non-kin occurs. Previous explanations involved computational limitations of the players, repeated play among the players etc. As an alternative, we introduce a pre-play step in which each player i chooses a “persona”, i.e., a ficticious utility function she commits to use in the game. By adopting differ...
متن کاملLearning can ’ t be fun , can it ?
Inspired by research by Carrie Heeter et al. and the MIT Games-to-Teach project we set up a small scale empirical study on two educational games on Art aimed at primary school children. We found that both boys and girls liked to play these games; that one game scored better on our ‘fun-index’ and that girls had less mouse skills and lacked certain game skills. This did not, however, affect thei...
متن کاملInsomnia: can it be treated?
Hippocrates, the father of Medicine, spoke of the importance of sleep through this wonderful aphorism. However, it can be said that it was only in 1929 that the modern era of sleep investigation began, with the description of the electrical activity of the human brain by the German psychiatrist Hans Berger, who created the term “electroencephalography”. In Chicago in the 1930s, Loomis, Harvey a...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Aeronautical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0001-9240,2059-6464
DOI: 10.1017/s0001924000005510