The core tenet of Bayesian modeling is that subjects represent beliefs as distributions over possible hypotheses. Such models have fruitfully been applied to the study of learning in the context of animal conditioning experiments (and analogously designed human learning tasks), where they explain phenomena such as retrospective revaluation that seem to demonstrate that subjects entertain multip...

This paper presents an assignment model of CEOs and …rms. The distributions of CEO pay levels and …rms’market values are analyzed as the competitive equilibrium of a matching market where talents, as well as CEO positions, are scarce. It is shown how the observed joint distribution of CEO pay and market value can then be used to infer the economic value of underlying ability di¤erences. The var...

DO-178B, which is a de facto standard for developing avionics software systems, defines objectives for the entire phases of software lifecycle. Turkey’s avionic industry has shown strong growth over the last decade and as a result of this trend every day new software development companies are involved in the DO-178B compliant software development projects. The certification authorities perform ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of present study was to examine biological and psychological characteristics of people according to the Sasang typology, which is popular in Korea. We evaluated the Sasang Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) as a measure of temperament, and Body Mass Index (BMI) as a measure of the somatic properties of each Sasang type. METHODS Subjects were 2506 (877 males, 1629 females) ...

1. Introdução Na coluna anterior, foi apresentada a regra da irreparabilidade do dano evitável (ride) e demonstrado que, no Código Civil, essa regra tem fundamento no artigo 403. Contudo, de muito pouco adianta fundamentar a ride no artigo 403 CC, se não for apresentada uma dogmática capaz de orientar a aplicação dessa regra aos casos concretos. Na presente coluna, são apresentados os contornos...

Among the many sports and activities to choose from, martial arts are becoming increasingly popular for health and fitness. Due to the different nature of the various styles of martial arts, injuries are not uncommon. Though there have been studies on the injury rates of several martial art styles, there have been none regarding Choi Kwang Do (CKD), a noncompetitive martial art with relaxed and...

There is great interest in understanding trinitrotoluene (TNT) and dinitrotoluene (DNT) contamination, detection and remediation in the environment due to TNT's negative health effects and security implications. Numerous publications have focused on detecting TNT in groundwater using multiple techniques, including electrochemistry. The main degradation pathway of nitrotoluenes in the environmen...

Correspondência: Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro • Rua Campanha, 98/101 30310-770 Belo Horizonte, MG Brasil E-mail: [email protected] O estabelecimento de tratamento eficaz para o infarto agudo do miocárdio (IAM) foi uma das conquistas médicas mais importantes da segunda metade do século XX1. A mortalidade hospitalar caiu de alarmantes 30% a 40% nas décadas de 1950 e 19602 para menos de 5% em 20063, em...

Resumen. En la Universidad Simón Bolívar se promueven varias iniciativas en el área de elearning, tales como cursos en línea de postgrado, del Programa de Perfeccionamiento Profesional y de la carrera Gerencia Empresarial. Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar un plan de trabajo para adoptar estándares de elearning en la creación de un curso en línea. Se realiza una revisión de la literat...

"Orientation," we said last year, "Traces its sluggish path each year no better and no worse than before . . Although this is probably still t rue to a degree, there is an illusion shared by many advisors that this year's Freshman Week went better than those in years past. This may be because the men's colleges continue to judge their success by the female reactions to their mixers. The girls p...