Five experiments were designed to study spontaneous recovery (SR) in two situations involving consummatory behavior: consummatory successive negative contrast (cSNC) and consummatory extinction (cE). SR of consummatory suppression should occur if incentive downshift induces an egocentric memory encoding information about the emotional reaction to the downshift that is counterconditioned or exti...

The ubiquity of psychological process models requires an increased degree of sophistication in the methods and metrics that we use to evaluate them. We contribute to this venture by capitalizing on recent work in cognitive science analyzing response dynamics, which shows that the bearing information processing dynamics have on intended action is also revealed in the motor system. This decidedly...

This work demonstrates that the most stable structures of even small gas-phase aggregates of cerium oxide with 2-5 cerium atoms show structural motifs reminiscent of the bulk ceria. This is different from main group and transition metal oxide clusters, which often display structural features that are distinctly different from the bulk structure. The structures of Ce(2)O(2)(+), Ce(3)O(4)(+), and...

This paper develops a theory-based, cost-effective method to forecast actual product demand using inexpensive choice experiment data.

In many theories of decision under risk (e.g., expected utility theory, rank-dependent utility theory, and prospect theory), the utility of a prospect is independent of other options in the choice set. The experiments presented here show a large effect of the available options, suggesting instead that prospects are valued relative to one another. The judged certainty equivalent for a prospect i...

This study discusses the methodology for social impact scoping (SIS) by employing a case of novel policy design resolving issue abandoned farmland in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. When conducted using state-of-the-art methods, SIS can contribute meaningful information policymaking even conditions limited resources. In this study, choice experiment (CE) was to analyse desirability alternative policie...

The present study including two experiments was designed to determine the effect of media containing different rare earth elements (REE) on proliferation and fatty acids accumulation in 3T3-L1 cell cultures. In Experiment 1, 3T3-L1 preadipocytes in 96-well plates (1.5×10 cells/ml) were cultured with Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) for 24 h. Then...

Résumé— Une phase primordiale lors de la modélisation d’un système à l’aide d’un perceptron multicouches reste la détermination de la structure du réseau. Dans ce cadre, nous proposons un algorithme d’élagage du réseau basé sur l’utilisation de l’analyse de la variance de la sensibilité de tous les paramètres du réseau. Cet algorithme sera testé sur deux exemples de simulation et ses performanc...

T-14326A Abstract A decade ago, Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) was considered a novelty. Today it is commonly used in quality control worldwide, providing automated, high-resolution methods, with online detection. In the first part of this series of articles, we will illustrate an overview of CE in a modern quality control laboratory. The complete series of articles will address in depth the fo...

This report is a summary of the theory underlying the Cross-Entropy (CE) method, as discussed in the tutorial by de Boer, Kroese, Mannor and Rubinstein [1]. For a more thorough discussion of the method and its applications, please refer to the original tutorial and the references cited in the tutorial. The CE method, pioneered by Rubinstein in 1997 as an adaptive algorithm for estimating probab...