Semantic feature norms (e.g., STIMULUS: car → RESPONSE: ) are commonly used in cognitive psychology to look into salient aspects of given concepts. Semantic features are typically collected in experimental settings and then manually annotated by the researchers into feature types (e.g., perceptual features, taxonomic features, etc.) by means of content analyses-that is, by usin...

Congenital blind subjects are able to learn how to use color terms and other types of vision-related words in a way that is de facto undistinguishable from sighted people. It has actually been proposed that language provides a rich source of information that blind subjects can exploit to acquire aspects of word meaning that are related to visual experience, such as the color of fruits or animal...

Structured Abstract Purpose Retailing as a sector employs many women and serves a female dominated customer base. It also employs proportionately more women in management positions than in other occupational sectors. However, at senior levels, the proportion of women to men diminishes. This article examines the perceived facilitators and problems of senior retail managers' career development in...

abstracts submited for iranian congress of gastroenterology and hepatology - icgh 2011â â â 5-7october 2012 tabriz, iran

We reexamine the theory of rational voter participation where voting is by two collusive parties that can enforce social norms through costly peer punishment. This model nests both the ethical voter model and the pivotal voter model. We initially abstract from aggregate shocks to the population of voters in favor of the original Palfrey and Rosenthal [24] model and analyze the subsequent all-pa...

Abstract. The construction of frames for a Hilbert space H can be equated to the decomposition of the frame operator as a sum of positive operators having rank one. This realization provides a different approach to questions regarding frames with particular properties and motivates our results. We find a necessary and sufficient condition under which any positive finite-rank operator B can be e...