There is some confusion in the literature as to what velocity should appear in the stellar aberration formula. Because the aberration formula is usually derived from the same equations as the Doppler shift, where the relative velocity between source and detector is the relevant one, it is often assumed the same holds for aberration. This is not the case. Authors who choose the orbital velocity ...

In this article, we assess to what extent decision making is affected by the language in which a given problem is presented (native vs. foreign). In particular, we aim to ask whether the impact of various heuristic biases in decision making is diminished when the problems are presented in a foreign language. To this end, we report four main studies in which more than 700 participants were teste...

The tag identification efficiency of a reader in an RFID system with Frame Slotted Aloha (FSA) based Anti-Collision Algorithm (ACA) can be maximized by selecting the optimal frame length with respect to the number of interrogating tags. Conventional analytical models that have been used widely to derive such an optimal frame length are inaccurate because they lack either precise characterizatio...

New ventures that commercialize radical technologies tend to cluster in time. Funding for new ventures also ebbs and flows, often synchronous with significant innovations. We suggest that financial market activity is not purely a response to novel technologies but rather, financial markets drive innovation bubbles. We show that financing risk is inherent to the funding of new ventures, but vari...

In the recent past, qualitative research methods have become more prevalent in the field of statistics education. This paper offers thoughts on the process of framing a qualitative study by means of an illustrative example. The decisions that influenced the framing of a study of preservice teachers‟ understanding of the concept of statistical sample are explained by describing the goals, knowle...

People are renowned for their failure to consider alternative hypotheses. We compare neglect of alternative causes when people make predictive versus diagnostic probability judgments. One study with medical professionals reasoning about psychopathology and two with undergraduates reasoning about goals and actions or about causal transmission yielded the same results: neglect of alternative caus...

Recent research has suggested that using a foreign language to present hypothetical moral dilemmas increases the rate of utilitarian judgments about those dilemmas (e.g., Greene et al, 2001) and decreases incoherency between judgments in framing effect tasks (e.g., Tversky & Kahneman, 1981; see Costa, Foucart, Arnon, Aparici, & Apesteguia, 2014; Costa, Foucart, Hayakawa, Aparici, Apesteguia, He...

This paper presents a methodology for document processing, by separating text paragraphs from images. The methodology is based on the recognition of text characters and words for the efficient separation text paragraphs from images by keeping their relationships for a possible reconstruction of the original page. The text separation and extraction is based on a hierarchical framing process. The...

Laboratory studies frequently find that framing changes individual issue positions. But few real world studies have demonstrated framing induced shifts in aggregate political opinions, let alone political identities. One explanation for these divergent findings is that the competitive nature of most real world political debates presents multiple frames that cancel each other out. We assess this...