The basis of right- vs. left-hand-use preference in humans has been debated for a long time. Culturally learned, birth stress, and biologically specified causes are the prominent etiologies under consideration. A 2003 (Klar 2003) study reported a correlation between a person's preferred hand and the scalp hair-whorl orientation developed on the head. By reinterpreting results of a 1927 (Schwarz...

Yoon (2008, 2009) claimed that there are two distinct Subjects in Multiple Subject Constructions (MSCs) in Korean. The crux of his argument hangs on reinterpreting the traditionally proposed subject diagnostics as distinguishing between the Grammatical Subject (GS) and the Major Subject (MS) in MSCs. The claimed diagnostics for GS and MS were examined experimentally in MSCs and corresponding Si...

We present an algorithm that computes the composition factors of the n-th tensor power of the free associative algebra on a vector space. The composition factors admit a description in terms of certain coefficients cλμ determining their irreducible structure. By reinterpreting these coefficients as counting the number of ways to solve certain ‘decomposition-puzzles’ we are able to design an eff...

This paper compares the equilibrium outcomes from a recently developed model of procurement competition with differentiated products to those from two analytically tractable models that might naturally be considered suitable proxies. The models differ in what sellers know about the buyer’s preferences for their products, and the newer model must be solved numerically. The three models yield sub...

In a recent paper, we presented a road map for how Tully's fewest switches surface hopping (FSSH) algorithm can be derived, under certain circumstances, from the mixed quantum-classical Liouville equation. In this communication, we now demonstrate how this new interpretation of surface hopping can yield significantly enhanced results for electronic properties in nonadiabatic calculations. Speci...

The 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police provides rich case material in how an attack perceived as unjust can backfire. Drawing on nonviolence theory, an original framework is developed to analyze attacks as potential backfires that are usually, but not always, inhibited. Attackers can use a variety of methods to inhibit backfires, including covering up the attack, devaluing the ta...

To facilitate further research in emergent turn-taking, we propose a metric for evaluating the extent to which agents take turns using a shared resource. Our measure reports a turn-taking value for a particular time and a particular time scale, or ‘resolution,’ in a way that matches intuition. We describe how to evaluate the results of simulations where turn-taking may or may not be present and...

We analytically derive the geometrical structure of the weight space in multilayer neural networks (MLN), in terms of the volumes of couplings associated to the internal representations of the training set. Focusing on the parity and committee machines, we deduce their learning and generalization capabilities both reinterpreting some known properties and finding new exact results. The relations...