Experiments I and II were designed to differentiate between alternative interpretations of the contrast effect. Experiment I examines and rejects the hypothesis that the effect is specific to rating scales, since the effect also occurs when subjects are asked to make CDmparative judgments. Experiment II leads to the rejection of the hypothesis that the effect is purely semantic (i.e., specific ...

We present an estimated DSGE model of stock market bubbles and business cycles using Bayesian methods. Bubbles emerge through a positive feedback loop mechanism supported by self-fulfilling beliefs. We identify a sentiment shock which drives the movements of bubbles and is transmitted to the real economy through endogenous credit constraints. This shock explains more than 96 percent of the stoc...

The need for high speed, wideband amplifiers is the driving force behind the development of the Current Feedback Amplifier (CFA). The CFA has significant advantages over conventional amplifiers in terms of slew rate performance and inherently wide bandwidth. This paper provides a review of the theory and design of current feedback amplifiers.

The fire and rescue services are called to the scene of almost all serious accidents. The purpose of this investigation was to find out whether the information they obtain in the course of their normal operations can be used to improve experience feedback from accidents. 1120 incident reports from two local Swedish fire and rescue services were studied. These reports contained 217 proposals for...

We propose feedback loops that increase the coherence between evaluation activities in a design science research (DSR) process. While several scholars have proposed DSR cycles with frequent evaluation activities to provide timely feedback on design activities, the question of how to ensure coherence between these activities has remained largely unaddressed. Yet, coherence is essential to claim ...

Numerical models have suggested that the dynamics within mutualisms are not important for the maintenance of diversity. In this study it is demonstrated that the dynamics within mutualism can contribute to the maintenance of diversity within its participants, using a general model of frequency dependence between two mutualistically interacting guilds. Specifically, it is demonstrated that while...

The feedback compiler provides information from the backend of a compiler. This information is useful for beginning programmers, experienced programmers , teaching programming, and teaching compiler construction. Activities that beneet from feedback include debugging optimized code, learning eeective programming techniques, and porting programs to new architectures. Common subexpression and loo...

The application of gameplay metrics to empirically express a player’s engagement with the game system has become more appealing to a broader range of researchers beyond the computer sciences. Within game studies, the appropriation and use of gameplay metrics not only further shifts these methods beyond formalized user testing (e.g. with the aim of product improvement) but creates a demand for a...

The existing approaches used to identify the relevant pathways in a given condition do not consider a number of important biological factors such as magnitude of each gene’s expression change, their position and interactions in the given pathways, etc. Recently, an impact analysis approach was proposed that considers these crucial biological factors to analyze regulatory pathways at systems bio...

[1] The impact of time‐varying radiative forcing on the diagnosis of radiative feedback from satellite observations of the Earth is explored. Phase space plots of variations in global average temperature versus radiative flux reveal linear striations and spiral patterns in both satellite measurements and in output from coupled climate models. A simple forcing‐ feedback model is used to demonstr...