Presentation without Purpose

General-Purpose Computation without General-Purpose Processors

Structures without Scattered-Automatic Presentation

Bruyère and Carton lifted the notion of finite automata reading infinite words to finite automata reading words with shape an arbitrary linear order L. Automata on finite words can be used to represent infinite structures, the socalled word-automatic structures. Analogously, for a linear order L there is the class of L-automatic structures. In this paper we prove the following limitations on th...

Alone and Without Purpose: Life Loses Meaning Following Social Exclusion.

Four studies (N = 643) supported the hypothesis that social exclusion would reduce the global perception of life as meaningful. Social exclusion was manipulated experimentally by having a confederate refuse to meet participants after seeing their videotaped introduction (Study 1) and by ostracizing participants in a computerized ball-tossing game (Study 2). Compared to control condition and acc...

Atypical presentation of an advanced obstructive biliary cancer without jaundice

PATIENT Female, 60 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Cholangiocarcinoma Symptoms: Abdominal pain • abdominal discomfort MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Oncology. OBJECTIVE Unusual natural history/clinical course. BACKGROUND Cholangiocarcinoma remains to be a challenging case to diagnose and manage as it usually presents in advanced stage and survival rate remains dismal despite the medical b...

Perceptual learning incepted by decoded fMRI neurofeedback without stimulus presentation.

It is controversial whether the adult primate early visual cortex is sufficiently plastic to cause visual perceptual learning (VPL). The controversy occurs partially because most VPL studies have examined correlations between behavioral and neural activity changes rather than cause-and-effect relationships. With an online-feedback method that uses decoded functional magnetic resonance imaging (...