One frequent piece of advice is not to “put all our eggs in one basket” and opt for multiple alternatives in order to minimize risk and uncertainty in our decisions. In a behavioral study involving decisions-from-experience, Ashby, Konstantinidis, and Gonzalez (2015) showed that participants follow an “irrational” strategy in choice selection which departs from maximization. As structural compl...

The study presented in this paper examined people’s perception of domestic service robots by means of an ethnographic study. We investigated initial reactions of nine households who lived with a Roomba vacuum cleaner robot over a two week period. To explore people’s attitude and how it changed over time, we used a recurring questionnaire that was filled at three different times, integrated in 1...

Reading is not only one of the most appreciated leisure activities of the elderly but it clearly helps older people to maintain functional independence, which has a significant impact on life quality. Yet, very little is known about how aging affects the neural circuits of the processes that underlie skilled reading. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to systematically investigate the ...

I argue that, under the glitz, dual theories are examples of theoretically equivalent descriptions of the same underlying physical content: I distinguish them from cases of genuine underdetermination on the grounds that there is no real incompatibility involved between the descriptions. The incompatibility is at the level of unphysical structure. I argue that dual pairs are in fact very strongl...

This paper outlines the preliminary findings of the empirical stage of the research to establish the reasons that in 2003 some English local authorities decided to trial e-voting and others did not. The key findings demonstrate that central and local governments have different agendas and there is little momentum from central government to increase the number of pilot schemes. The central gover...

BACKGROUND Structural brain volume abnormalities are among the most extensively studied endophenotypes in schizophrenia. Bivariate genetic model fitting (adjusted to account for selection) was used to quantify the genetic relationship between schizophrenia and brain volumes and to estimate the heritability of these volumes. METHOD We demonstrated by simulation that the adjusted genetic model ...

Assessing how much two geographic databases reflect the same point of view is a key issue for data integration. We argue that this task requires developing ontologies revealing the point of view of each piece of information, and neglecting the technical choices behind the organization of information in data schemas. These ontologies need then to be aligned and globally compared. In this paper, ...

Defeasible and ampliative reasoning are two sides of the same coin. They use similar techniques, but for very different purposes. This talk will explore these similarities and differences.

? 'Organising Disaster: Civil Protection and the Population', whilst trying to nd the 'same, same but dierent', 1 has directed our aention to the practicalities of undertaking social scientic forms of comparison, as well as to some of the ethical and political questions that arise from its use. 2 Much has been wrien about the laer question: as we detail in the book's Introduction and touch on a...

In the 25 years since Ellis, Gibbs and Rein proposed the time-space taxonomy, research in the ‘same time, same place’ quadrant has diversified, perhaps even fragmented. The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers with diverse, yet convergent interests in tabletop, surface, mobile and wearable technologies, and those interested in the social aspects of interaction, such as...