A k_n Latin rectangle is a k_n matrix of entries from [1, 2, ..., n] such that no symbol occurs twice in any row or column. An intercalate is a 2_2 Latin subrectangle. Let N(R) be the number of intercalates in R, a randomly chosen k_n Latin rectangle. We obtain a number of results about the distribution of N(R) including its asymptotic expectation and a bound on the probability that N(R)=0. For...

Rhyme processing is reflected in the electrophysiological signals of the brain as a negative deflection for non-rhyming as compared to rhyming stimuli around 450 ms after stimulus onset. Studies have shown that this N450 component is not solely sensitive to rhyme but also responds to other types of phonological overlap. In the present study, we examined whether the N450 component can be used to...

In the opening lines of ‘The postmodernist war on evidence-based practice’ (Porter andO’Halloran, 2009), the authors erect a false binary between health care practice ‘informed by research’ and ‘those who argue that there should be no restrictions on the sources of knowledge used by practitioners’. This, the authors submit, is the distinction between the evidence-based approach and the postmode...

Miller and Ulrich (2015) critique our claim (Hoekstra et al., Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(5), 1157-1164, 2014), based on a survey given to researchers and students, of widespread misunderstanding of confidence intervals (CIs). They suggest that survey respondents may have interpreted the statements in the survey that we deemed incorrect in an idiosyncratic, but correct, way, thus calling ...

We prove that there exist equilibrium payoffs arbitrarily close to the efficient payoff in the two-player prisoner’s dilemma with low discounting under imperfect private monitoring, provided that the monitoring structure is not too uninformative, and signals satisfy a condition of positive correlation. We assume no communication, and no public randomization device.

A striking aspect of human coordination is that we achieve it with little or no communication. We achieve this implicit coordination by taking the perspective of others and inferring their intentions. In contrast, robots usually coordinate explicitly through the extensive communication of utilities or intentions. In this paper we present a method that combines both approaches: implicit coordina...

The stress-buffering model posits that social support mitigates the relation between negative life events and onset of depression, but prospective studies have provided little support for this assertion. The authors sought to provide a more sensitive test of this model by addressing certain methodological and statistical limitations of past studies with prospective data from 496 adolescent girl...

Zusammenfassung: Das multimedia lecture board (mlb) ist ein sogenanntes Shared Whiteboard und ermöglicht die Präsentation und die gemeinsame Bearbeitung von Dokumenten in computergestützten Videokonferenzen. Es wurde im Rahmen des DFN-Projekts “ANETTE” speziell für den Einsatz in TeleteachingVeranstaltungen entwickelt und findet seit dem Sommersemester 2001 Verwendung an verschiedenen Universit...

Classified broadly, two motives for intra-family transfers exist: altruism and selfishness. This paper examines two selfish hypotheses − the exchange motive (strategic bequest motive) and the demonstration effect − using a new Japanese micro data set. My analysis of the determinants of intergenerational co-residence, distance between residences, and frequency of contact yields considerable supp...