Ideomotor actions are behaviours that are unconsciously initiated and express a thought rather than a response to a sensory stimulus. The question examined here is whether ideomotor actions can also express nonconscious knowledge. We investigated this via the use of implicit long-term semantic memory, which is not available to conscious recall. We compared accuracy of answers to yes/no question...

The local physical properties of an isolated quantum statistical system in the stationary state reached long after a quench are generically described by the Gibbs ensemble, which involves only its Hamiltonian and the temperature as a parameter. If the system is instead integrable, additional quantities conserved by the dynamics intervene in the description of the stationary state. The resulting...

In nim, a finite number of piles of finitely many tokens is given. Two players alternate in selecting a pile and removing from it any positive number of tokens, possibly the entire pile. The player first unable to move loses and the opponent wins. Nim is easy. Why? Because it has an easy strategy: write the number of tokens in each pile in binary, and “add” them without carry, an addition also ...

The Paris area is strongly urbanized and is exposed to atmospheric pollution events. To understand the chemical and physical processes that are taking place in this area it is necessary to describe correctly the atmospheric boundary-layer (ABL) dynamics and the ABL height evolution. During the winter of 1994-1995, within the framework of the Etude de la Couche Limite Atmosphérique en Agglomérat...

Does enhanced bimodal distributional training improve perception of English /ae/ and /ε/ for adult native speakers of Dutch? Johanna de Vos 5755387

While the previous literature on exclusive dealing has been concerned with the question of how exclusive dealing can raise static profits, this paper analyzes the question of how exclusive dealing can be used to predate in a dynamic context. It is shown that exclusive dealing may arise even if it reduces static profits. Exclusivity provisions may not only allow excluding efficient competitors, ...

One of the difficulties in interpreting experimental results is in assessing the uncertainty to be associated with the theoretical calculation. This is particularly true in QCD where the coupling is quite strong and one expects higher order corrections to be significant. Typically, one characterizes theoretical uncertainty by the dependence on the renormalization scale μ. Since we don’t actuall...

We derive some physical properties of ideal assemblies of identical particles obeying generalized exclusion statistics. We discuss fluctuations, and in this connection point out a fundamental contrast to conventional quantum statistics. We demonstrate a duality relating the distribution of particles at statistics g to the distribution of holes at statistics 1/g. We suggest applications to Mott ...

Most research on stimulus preference and reinforcer assessment involves a preference assessment that is followed by a reinforcer assessment. Typically, the most and least preferred stimuli are tested as reinforcers. In the current study, we first quantified the reinforcing efficacies of six food items and then assessed relative preference for each item. Relative preference ranking and reinforce...