PURPOSE The purpose was to determine the number of semantic neighbors, namely, semantic set size, for 88 nonobjects (J. F. Kroll & M. C. Potter, 1984) and determine how semantic set size related to other measures and age. METHOD Data were collected from 82 adults and 92 preschool children in a discrete association task. The nonobjects were presented via computer, and participants reported the...

In the present article we observe the significations and the dimensions of interaction between instruments and performers in musical performance. This will lead us, firstly, to consider interaction as a phenomenon non-exclusively correlated with the use of numeric technologies. Then, still within the realm of interaction, we describe some of the transmutations introduced by digital music instru...

The paper deals with a solution of a fuzzy interval system of linear equations, i.e. a system in which fuzzy intervals (numbers) appear instead of crisp numbers. We obtain general results and then use them for finding the united solution set in the case when all fuzzy interval occurring in the system have the trapezoidal shape.

Non-linear dose response relationships pose statistical challenges for their discovery. Even when an initial linear approximation is followed by other approaches, the results may be misleading and, possibly, preclude altogether the discovery of the nonlinear relationship under investigation. We review a variety of straightforward statistical approaches for detecting nonlinear relationships and ...

An interval vector is a (0, 1)-vector where all the ones appear consecutively. Polytopes whose vertices are among these vectors have some astonishing properties that are highlighted in this paper. We present a number of interval-vector polytopes, including one class whose volumes are the Catalan numbers and another class whose face numbers mirror Pascal’s triangle.

Children's ability to place fractions on a number line strongly correlates with math achievement. But does the number line play a causal role in fraction learning or does it simply index more advanced fraction knowledge? The number line may be a particularly effective representation for fraction learning because its properties align with the desired mental representation and take advantage of p...

The linear relationship of the original grey prediction model is too single, and does not consider time delay effect current input parameters on output parameters. In order to solve these problems, interval number sequence taken as modelling model, nonlinear parameter γ time-delay τ are introduced into multivariate so construct multivariable for number. view uncertain characteristics smog index...