For wireless sensor networks, minimizing communication is crucial to improve energy consumption and thus lifetime. Whereas the standard way to deal with transmission errors is retransmission (automatic repeat request ARQ), in this paper we investigate an alternative: correcting bit errors using Cyclic Redundancy Checks CRCs (which are already used for error detection). Selected CRC polynomials ...

An effect observable across many different domains is that negative instances tend to be more influential than comparably positive ones. This phenomenon has been termed the negativity bias. In the current work, it was investigated whether this effect pertains to judgments of truth. That is, it was hypothesized that information valence and perceived validity should be associated such that more n...