In elicitation tasks, people are asked to make estimates under conditions of uncertainty but elicitors then interpret these estimates as if the estimator were certain of them. An analysis of people’s patterns of responding during the elicitation of uncertainty, indicates that there are markers of confidence incorporated into these estimates that can be used to predict the person’s true level of...

The process of convening arbitrary real numbers bito a floating poini format is formalized as a mapping of the reals into a specified subset of real numbers. The structure of this subset, the set of n significant digit base ß floating point numbers, is analyzed and properties of conversion mapp.ngs are determined. For a restricted conversion mapping of the n significant digit base ^numbers to t...

In this paper, we analyze the distribution of the eigenvalues of glued tridiagonal matrices. Such matrices provide a useful class of test matrix because, despite being unreduced, a glued matrix can have some eigenvalues agreeing to hundreds of decimal places. A glued matrix can be obtained from a direct sum of p copies of an unreduced symmetric tridiagonal matrix T by modifying the junctions, i...

2 The memory entitled " Theoretical study of the fluorinating power of SF 6 to vanadocene " corresponds to the work carried out by Luis Martínez Suárez to obtain the Official Master Title on Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, done in the Departament de Química Física of the Universitat de Barcelona and supervised by Dr. Juan J. Novoa Vide, whom certifies and gives his consent to its prese...

Based on the unique traits of biological motion perception, the existence of a “life detector”, a special sensitivity to perceiving motion patterns typical for animals, seems to be plausible (Johnson, 2006). Showing motion displays upsidedown or with changes in global structure is known to disturb processing in different ways, but not much is known yet about how inversion affects attention and ...

This paper provides a comparative gestural account of nasal vowels in Southern French (Marseille, Toulouse; France) and in Northern French (Liège, Tournai; Belgium). Timing measurements based on acoustic data confirm a different temporal organisation of the gestures between the two regiolects. We also report on statistical comparisons between phonetic events (such as duration of the SF ‘nasal a...