Three studies investigated conditions in which perceivers view dispositions and situations as interactive, rather than independent, causal forces when making judgments about another's personality. Study 1 showed that perceivers associated 5 common trait terms (e.g., friendly and shy) with characteristic if...then... (if situation a, then the person does x, but if situation b, then the person do...

What Emmanuel Falque seems to achieve in this book is make the "out of phenomenon" synonymous with "tragic". Certainly, we see heuristic interest creating and cultivating concept phenomenon". In Aeschylus' Agamemnon (a reference that runs throughout book), atrocious rubs shoulders filthy can only test us, traumatize and, therefore, "modify" us some way. If it also true tragic, according Kierkeg...

The classical notion of persistency, originated in 60s, has been extensively studied up to now. An action of a processing system is said to be persistent if, whenever it becomes enabled, it remains enabled until executed. And a system is said to be persistent if each of its actions is persistent. This notion, introduced by Karp/Miller, is one of the most frequently discussed issues in the Petri...

Let us suppose that organ transplant procedures have been perfected; in such circumstances if two dying patients could be saved by organ transplants then, if surgeons have the requisite organs in stock and no other needy patients, but nevertheless allow their patients to die, we would be inclined to say, and be justified in saying, that the patients died because the doctors refused to save them...

Let us suppose that organ transplant procedures have been perfected; in such circumstances if two dying patients could be saved by organ transplants then, if surgeons have the requisite organs in stock and no other needy patients, but nevertheless allow their patients to die, we would be inclined to say, and be justified in saying, that the patients died because the doctors refused to save them...

Although we often think of fuses as a nuisance, they play an important safety role in preventing damage to equipment due to electrical overloading, thereby reducing the risk of electrical shock to patients and staff. You should not dismiss a blown fuse as an inconvenience. It may be a sign that a real fault has developed, giving you the chance to find and fix the problem before any serious dama...

This paper presents a methodology for identifying twoperson interactions in outdoor image sequences. By recognizing and tracking two persons over consecutive frames of monocular grayscale image sequences, we classify their interactions into several classes. Some of the interaction classes are: One person leaves another stationary person; two people meet coming from different directions; and one...

A tractable method of solving noncooperative 2-person games in which strategies are staircase functions is suggested. The solution meant to be Pareto-efficient. considers any staircase-function game as a succession constants. For finite game, each constant-strategy bimatrix whose size sufficiently small solve it reasonable time. It proved that has single Pareto-efficient situation if every situ...

In the paper will be presented a safety and security system based on fingerprint technology. The results suggest a new scenario where the new cars can use a fingerprint sensor integrated in car handle to allow access and in the dashboard as starter button. Introduction One of the most relevant question in the security world is how identify and recognize people not only in some protected areas w...