The debate over the nature of mental imagery, especially with respect to the interpretation of recent findings on the transformation of images, has failed to focus on the crucial differences between the so-called "analogue" and "prepositional" approaches. In this paper I attempt to clarify the disagreements by focusing on the alleged spatial nature of images and on recent findings concerned wit...

Winter weather can be a significant cause of road traffic accidents. This paper uses UKCIP climate change scenarios and a temporal analogue to investigate the relationship between temperature and severe road accidents in the West Midlands, UK. This approach also allows quantification of the changes in the severity of the winter season over the next century in the region. It is demonstrated that...

Therapist empathy is an important ingredient of successful psychotherapy. However, the specific factors that influence patients’ perceptions of therapist empathy remain unclear. We examined whether participants’ perceptions of a therapist differed as a function of the participant and therapist having had a similar salient experience (parental divorce). Participants were 136 undergraduates rando...

A viewer is a reference-valued datum with a special meaning: a value of the data pointed by the viewer becomes a virtual part of data where the viewer is placed; the value virtually substit.utes the viewer. Viewers are considered to be a dat,a-world analogue of procedure calls. They possess a large conceptual and pragmatic potential as a result of new data semantics on which we can base a varie...

The Quranic concept of lapidating devils with meteors has received a variety of interpretations throughout Islamic history. In the past, it was interpreted to mean heavenly meteors thrown at devils in order to prevent them from giving ear to heavenly tidings. However, in the fourteenth century AH and as a result of modern scientific achievements, different non-literal interpretations were sugge...

Although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in L2 writing research. The small number of previous studies (e.g., Li, 2007; Brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

NORWAY) AS A MARTIAN ANALOGUE. P. Sobron 1 , H. E. F. Amundsen 2 , A. Bauer 3 , J. L. Bishop 4 , F. Jordan 5 , J-L. Josset 5 , L. Josset 5 , R. Leveille 1 , S. M. Pugh 6 , N. Schmitz 7 , A. Steele 8 , A. Wang 9 , 1 Space Science and Technology. Canadian Space Agency, St. Hubert, QC ([email protected]). 2 Earth and Planetary Exploration Services, Oslo, Norway. 3 Joanneum Research, Graz,...

Audio watermarking has become an important technology for recording and advertisement industry. Today’s embedding and detection strategies often rely on digital or at least high quality channels, like CD or mp3. However for numerous applications, watermarks surviving noisy analogue environments are better suited or even necessary. Application of such schemes allows to identify audio signals wit...

AND MONTERDE, NORTHEAST SPAIN: AN ANALOGUE AQUEOUS ORIGIN Alberto G. Fairén, Ricardo Amils, Fernando Leandro, James M. Dohm, Dirk SchulzeMakuch, and Alexis P. Rodríguez. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049-Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain. [email protected], Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC–INTA). 28850-Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid. Spain, Facultad de Geología, Universidad...