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Am I Right or Am I Right?

Though the value of a right should be not lower than zero, negative voting premiums often appear in recent empirical evidence. The present paper highlights some possible measurement errors and contemporary proposes a new measure, the vote segment, which incorporates all dividend privileges. Results from Italian non-voting shares listed in the 1999-2008 period show that the more accurate measure...

I am not Prejudiced, or am I? Semantic Strategies Used by Ghanaian University Students in the Discourse of Ethnic Prejudice

Semantic strategies are a kind of discourse strategy that include the sum of language and cognitive moves which are used to reach an adequate goal of communication normally resulting in text comprehension by the reader or listener. Here, the language user takes a number of steps in order to perform a complex task. Semantic strategies in prejudiced talk have been examined extensively in western ...

I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number

We suspect many of our readers will be familiar with the cult TV show The Prisoner, in which actor Patrick McGoohan had his identity taken away by unknown assailants for unknown reasons, and his pleas of ‘‘I am not a number, I am a person’’ (http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = 29JewlGsYxs&feature = related) were greeted with variants of ‘‘whatever you say, number six.’’ We would suggest that, as ...

I am therefore I think

This article offers an account of embodied exchange with the world that associates conscious operations with actively inferring the causes of our sensations. Its agenda is to link formal (mathematical) descriptions of dynamical systems to a description of perception in terms of beliefs and goals. The argument has two parts: the first calls on the lawful dynamics of any (weakly mixing ergodic) s...

Embodied Inference : or “ I think therefore I am , if I am what I think ”