What can I say? Prague was an absolutely beautiful city, now my favorite city. Nearly every other new block we walked, we would be met with a nice landscape view or a building of stunning architecture and “distinct personality”. One of my favorite experiences was going alone to the Prague tower and watching the sunset fall over the city; another would be the 10-mile hike that our Czech counterp...

Felix Mendelssohn, Goethe's favorite, who revealed the genius ofJohann Sebastian Bach after almost a century of oblivion, was of a fragile constitution. Last year of his life he was very depressed because of his sister Fanny's sudden death. The last month he had several attacks of severe headaches with agitation, anxiety, confusion and slow pulse. Last three days these episodes became more freq...

H is the λ-theory extending β-conversion by identifying all closed unsolvables. A long-standing open problem of H. Barendregt states that the range property holds in H. Here we discuss what we know about the problem. We also make some remarks on the λ-theory Hω (the closure of H under the ω-rule and β-conversion).

In this paper we present a concept for augmented reality entertainment, called AR Karaoke, where users perform their favorite dramatic scenes with virtual actors. AR Karaoke is the acting equivalent of traditional karaoke, where the goal is to facilitate an acting experience for the user that is entertaining for both the user and audience. Prototype implementations were created to evaluate vari...

Choices in music express our taste and personality. Different people have different collections of favorite songs. The explosive growth of digital media makes it easier to access any songs we want. Consequently, finding the songs best fit to our tastes becomes more challenging. Existing solutions record user patterns of listening to music, then make recommendation lists for users. By applying i...

We investigate how the need for evermore programming languages arises, and how to fulfill this need. We show how the gap between building a library using an existing language and constructing a completely new language narrows. In doing so we discuss a few of the past and current research results from the Software Technology group at Utrecht University.

Activity is associated with health among older adults yet older adults' favorite activities have rarely been investigated. We analyzed the community dwelling, cognitively-intact sample of NHATS, a nationally representative sample of adults ≥ 65, who had named their favorite activities (N = 5247). Logistic regression models estimated the odds of choosing a physical activity controlling for demog...

Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions? The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet longshots due to risk-love. ...

In this paper it is shown that the combination of mental accounting and loss aversion can fundamentally changes people’s way of evaluating risky alternatives. The observation is applied in a market setting: Parimutuel betting markets. In parimutuel betting markets it has been found that for horses with lowest odds (favorites), market estimates of winning probabilities are smaller than objective...