The symmetric interaction combinators are a model of distributed and deterministic computation based on Lafont’s interaction nets, a special form of graph rewriting. The interest of the symmetric interaction combinators lies in their universality, that is, the fact that they may encode all other interaction net systems; for instance, several implementations of the lambda-calculus in the symmetr...

Almost 50 years ago appeared the seminal article by Austin Bradford Hill where he presented parameters for inferring causes from statistical associations, which became known as Hill’s causal criteria. This was a milestone for the renewal of the idea of cause in medicine. Our article revisits his contribution in light of the ideas from the Australian philosopher John L. Mackie, whose important w...

I conduct an empirical analysis of the temporally asymmetric character of our epistemic access to the world by providing an experimental schema whose results represent the core empirical content of the epistemic asymmetry. I augment this empirical content by formulating a gedanken experiment. This second experiment cannot be conducted using any technology that is likely to be developed in the f...

Past research has suggested that familiarity with a message, brought about by repetition, can increase (Cacioppo & Petty, 1989) or decrease (Garcia–Marques & Mackie, 2001) analytic (systematic) processing of that message. Two experiments attempted to resolve these contradictory findings by examining how personal relevance may moderate the impact of familiarity on processing. Experiment 1 manipu...

2 Acknowledgements This project would not have been possible without the input provided by the case study representatives. Wildlife Trust). They have spent time in providing data, their expertise, and discussions about their sites, for which we have been very grateful. There are also numerous other people who have kindly helped with providing information for the case studies. For Ennerdale, the...

This paper integrates the motivational states of challenge and threat within a dual processing perspective. Previous research has demonstrated that individuals experience a challenge state when individuals have sufficient resources to cope with the demands of a task (Blascovich et al., 1993). Because the experience of resource availability has been shown to be associated with superficial proces...

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Rappaport's medium was tried out in parallel with, and in combination with, tetrathionate broth, and selenite F medium in 1,000 consecutive stool cultures. Media. Selenite F medium, tetrathionate broth, and desoxycholate-citrate-agar (D.C.A.) were made according to the formulae by Mackie and McCartney (1953). Rappaport's medium was prepared according to the formula given by Rappaport et a[. (19...

In this appendix we describe bidding strategies we have designed to study simultaneous ascending auction games [Reeves et al., 2003, MacKie-Mason et al., 2004, Reeves et al., 2005, Osepayshvili et al., 2005, Wellman et al., 2007]. Throughout this appendix we use the concept of an SAA environment, which comprises an SAA mechanism over M goods, a set of N agents, and a probability distribution D ...