The first task that a respondent faces in a survey interview is to arrive at the intended interpretation of the survey question. Although the wording of the question may seem unambiguous, its pragmatic interpretation may nevertheless be ambiguous. People are concerned with this pragmatic meaning of questions rather than with their literal meaning (see Clark and Schober 1991; Grice 1975; Schwarz...

Assuming Brownian/Poisson uncertainty, a certainty equivalent (CE) based on the smooth second-order expected utility of Klibanoff, Marinacci, and Mukerji (Econometrica, 2005) is shown to be approximately equal to an expected-utility CE. As a consequence, the corresponding continuous-time recursive utility form is the same as for Kreps-Porteus utility. The analogous conclusions are drawn for a s...

An exact correspondence is pointed out between conformal field theories in D dimensions and dual resonance models in D ′ dimensions, where D ′ may differ from D. Dual resonance models, pioneered by Veneziano, were forerunners of string theory. The analogs of scattering amplitudes in dual resonance models are called Mellin amplitudes; they depend on complex variables s ij which substitute for th...

Todorov, Vladimir, Markus Müller, Frank Schweda, and Armin Kurtz. Tumor necrosis factorinhibits renin gene expression. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 283: R1046–R1051, 2002. First published June 27, 2002; 10.1152/ajpregu.00142.2002.—Renin, produced in renal juxtaglomerular (JG) cells, is a fundamental regulator of blood pressure. Accumulating evidence suggests that cytokines may directl...

Let A be a hereditary algebra over an algebraically closed field. We prove that an exact fundamental domain for the m-cluster category Cm(A) of A is the m-left part Lm(A (m)) of the m-replicated algebra of A. Moreover, we obtain a one-toone correspondence between the tilting objects in Cm(A) (that is, the m-clusters) and those tilting modules in modA(m) for which all non projective-injective di...

Montgomery multiplication is one of the fundamental operations used in cryptographic algorithms, such as RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems. At CHES 1999, Tenca and Koç introduced a nowclassical architecture for implementing Montgomery multiplication in hardware. With parameters optimized for minimum latency, this architecture performs a single Montgomery multiplication in approximately 2n cl...

Fantastik edebiyat gerçek dünya ile gerçeküstü bir arasında okura farklı düzlemde yolculuk sunmasıyla dünyasında ayrı yere sahiptir. edebiyatın bu dünyasının çocuk yazınında da yer alması, çocukların gerçekliği düzlemlerde sorgulamasını olanaklı kılmaktadır. Bu nedenle araştırmanın amacı, fantastik edebiyatı arasındaki ilişkiden yola çıkarak yazarlarından Aslı Der’in yapıtlarını ögeler açısında...

Three experiments are presented that investigate the two-dimensional valence/trustworthiness by dominance model of social inferences from faces (Oosterhof & Todorov, 2008). Experiment 1 used image averaging and morphing techniques to demonstrate that consistent facial cues subserve a range of social inferences, even in a highly variable sample of 1000 ambient images (images that are intended to...

Occupational-related low back disorders are the leading cause of lost work days as well as the most costly occupational safety and health problem facing industry today. Twisting has been found to be associated with lower back pain (Frymoyer, 1983). Previous biomechanical measures of twisting allowed ancillary moments and forces in addition to the twisting exertion. This confounding makes it dif...

OF THE DISSERTATION Optimal Control for Biological Movement Systems by Weiwei Li Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Sciences (Aerospace Engineering) University of California, San Diego, 2006 Professor Emanuel Todorov, Chair Professor Robert E. Skelton, Co-Chair Optimal control model of biological movement provides a natural starting point for describing observed everyday behavior, and is so fa...