Home attachment is positive emotional bond between home and its dwellers which may result in safety, solace and tranquility for them. To create this kind of relationship some physical and social prerequisites need to exist inside home. This article aims to answer the question "whether house outdoor environment features are also effective in developing home attachment or not?" Aiming to answer t...

Abstract We put forth an account for when to believe causal and evidential conditionals. The basic idea is embed a model in agent’s belief state. For the evaluation of conditionals seems be relative beliefs about both particular facts relations. Unlike other attempts using models, we show that ours can rather well not only various but also

A broadband, through-transmission technique is described that measures directly the change in phase velocity with frequency without first measuring the absolute phase velocity at different frequencies. The method only requires the measurement of the specimen’s thickness and recording of two pulses: one without and one with the specimen inserted between the transmitting and receiving transducers...

RCC8 is a constraint language that serves for qualitative spatial representation and reasoning by encoding the topological relations between spatial entities. We focus on efficiently characterizing nonredundant constraints in large real world RCC8 networks and obtaining their prime networks. For a RCC8 network N a constraint is redundant, if removing that constraint from N does not change the s...

This paper addresses questions about how the levels of causality (generic and single case causality) are related. One question is epistemological: can relationships at one level be evidence for relationships at the other level? We present three kinds of answer to this question, categorised according to whether inference is top-down, bottom-up, or the levels are independent. A second question is...

This paper explains the continuing relevance of Keynes’s philosophical thinking in terms of his anticipation of complexity thinking in economics. It argues that that reflexivity is a central feature of the philosophical foundations of complexity theory, and shows that Keynes employed an understanding of reflexivity in both his philosophical and economic thinking. This argument is first develope...

Previous studies have explored privacy instruments and disclosures as factors that affect on-line shopping intentions or attitudes. However, few have evaluated how information control affects this behavior. This paper draws on psychological and social justice theories to gain an understanding of how information control impacts on-line purchasing directly or indirectly through the mediation of i...

Model diagnostics are shown to have little power unless alternative hypotheses can be narrowly defined. For example, independence of observations cannot be tested against general forms of dependence. Thus, the basic assumptions in regression models cannot be inferred from the data. Equally, the proportionality assumption in proportional-hazards models is not testable. Specification error is a p...

Multiply sectioned Bayesian networks for single-agent systems are extended into a framework for cooperative multi-agent distributed interpretation systems. Each agent is represented as a Bayesian subnet. We show that the semantics of the joint probability distribution of such a system is well defined under reasonable conditions. Unlike in single-agent systems where evidence is entered one subne...