Our aim is to achieve writer identification process thanks to a fractal analysis of handwriting style. For each writer, a set of characteristics is extracted. They are specific to the writer. Advantage is taken from the autosimilarity properties that are present in one’s handwriting. In order to do that, some invariant patterns characterizing the writing are extracted. During the training step ...

This paper presents a detailed comparison of the relative importance of allowing concurrent writers versus the choice of the underlying consistency model. Our comparison is based on single-and multiple-writer versions of a lazy release consistent (LRC) protocol, and a single-writer sequentially consistent protocol, all implemented in the CVM software distributed shared memory system. We nd that...

This project generates random text based on the patterns of characters in a source file. By analyzing given text for character patterns, random characters can be selected according to the likelihood that it follows any given length k of characters, and the resulting generated text is then outputted to a file. Based on the length k chosen for these ”seeds” of characters, different levels of anal...

The opportunity to tell a white lie (i.e., a lie that benefits another person) generates a moral conflict between two opposite moral dictates, one pushing towards telling always the truth and the other pushing towards helping others. Here we study how people resolve this moral conflict. What does telling a white lie signal about a person’s pro-social tendencies? To answer this question, we cond...

A cornerstone of the task switching literature is the finding that task performance is typically slower and more error-prone when the task switches than when it repeats. So far, deception research has largely ignored that such cognitive switch costs should also emerge when switching between truth telling and lying, and may affect the cognitive cost of lying as reflected in higher prefrontal bra...

Three studies demonstrated that postsuppressional rebound (PSR) may be both reduced and enhanced by manipulating people's attributions about why they experience difficulty during suppression. Telling participants that suppression failures indicate a high motivation to use the suppressed construct produced more PSR than telling them that suppression failures indicate a low motivation to use the ...

Alexandre Durval Lemos1 Flávia Riqueto Gambareli2 Marcia Diaz Serra2 Rafael de Liz Pocztaruk3 Maria Beatriz Duarte Gavião2 1Department of Pediatric Dentistry, State University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, BR 2Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Dental School of Piracicaba State University of Campinas (FOP/UNICAMP), Piracicaba, SP, BR 3Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dental School of ULBRA-SO...

But despite their differences each man deeply valued the other. Darwin persuaded the British government to award Wallace a pension for services to science. Wallace dedicated his book The Malay Archipelago to Darwin, “as a token of personal esteem and friendship but also to express my deep admiration for his genius and his works.” Wallace also called his 1889 collection of evolutionary essays Da...

We present Linkage Query Writer (LinQuer), a system for generating SQL queries for semantic link discovery over relational data. The LinQuer framework consists of (a) LinQL, a language for specification of linkage requirements; (b) a web interface and an API for translating LinQL queries to standard SQL queries; (c) an interface that assists users in writing LinQL queries. We discuss the challe...