The current study employed functional MRI to investigate the contribution of domain-general (e.g. executive functions) and domain-specific (e.g. semantic knowledge) processes to differences in semantic judgments across cultures. Previous behavioral experiments have identified cross-cultural differences in categorization, with East Asians preferring strategies involving thematic or functional re...

We have studied the interactions among a varied group of neutral amino acids for uptake into two different animal tissue culture cell lines. 3T3 mouse cells and Chinese hamster ovary cells were used in these studies. The results showed that the affinities of the amino acids clustered into two groups, one including amino acids such as glycine, alanine, and alpha-aminoisobutyric acid and the othe...

The acoustic features useful for converting auditory information into perceived objects are poorly understood. Although auditory cortex neurons have been described as being narrowly tuned and preferentially responsive to narrowband signals, naturally occurring sounds are generally wideband with unique spectral energy profiles. Through the use of parametric wideband acoustic stimuli, we found th...

Inconsistent knowledge-bases can entail useful conclusions when using the three-valued semantics of the paraconsistent logic LP. However, the set of conclusions entailed by a consistent knowledge-base under the three-valued semantics is smaller than set of conclusions entailed by the knowledge-base under a two-valued semantics. Preferring conflict-minimal interpretations of the logic LP; i.e., ...

A theoretical scheme developed earlier [Y. V. Kalyuzhnyi et al., Chem. Phys. Lett. 443, 243 (2007)] is used to calculate the full phase diagram of polydisperse athermal polymer-colloidal mixture with polydispersity in both colloidal and polymeric components. In the limiting case of bidisperse polymer-colloidal mixture, theoretical results are compared against computer simulation results. We pre...

In a setting where heterogeneous agents interact to accomplish a given set of goals, cooperation is of utmost importance, especially when agents cannot achieve their individual goals by exclusive use of their own efforts [1]. Even when we consider friendly environments and benevolent agents, cooperation involves several issues: with whom to cooperate, reciprocation, how to address credit assign...

Allostery provides a critical control over enzyme activity, biasing the catalytic site between inactive and active states. We found that the Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensing phosphatase (Ci-VSP), which modifies phosphoinositide signaling lipids (PIPs), has not one but two sequential active states with distinct substrate specificities, whose occupancy is allosterically controlled by sequential...

PageRank is a way to rank Web pages taking into account hyper-link structure of the Web. PageRank provides efficient and simple method to find out ranking of Web pages exploiting hyper-link structure of the Web. However, it produces just an approximation of the ranking since the random surfer model uses just uniform distributions for all situation of choice happening during the surf process. In...

Preference elicitation methods require respondents to predict the impact a change in health might have on their future selves. The focus on the change in health is at the possible expense of other experiences of life once in that health state. We analyse personal preferences to a pairwise choice task involving trade-offs between quality and length of life, where satisfaction levels with life or...