The psychological and neurobiological processes underlying moral judgement have been the focus of many recent empirical studies1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Of central interest is whether emotions play a causal role in moral judgement, and, in parallel, how emotion-related areas of the brain contribute to moral judgement. Here we show that six patients with focal bilateral damage to the ve...

The VMPC function is a combination of triple permutation composition and integer addition. It differs from a simple triple permutation composition with one integer addition operation performed on some of the elements of the permutation. The consequence of this addition operation is corruption of cycle structure of the transformed permutation the fundamental source of the function's resistance t...

Recent studies indicate that emotional processes, mediated by the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), are of great importance for moral judgment. Neurological patients with VMPC dysfunction have been shown to generate increased utilitarian moral judgments, i.e. are more likely to endorse emotionally aversive actions in order to maximize aggregate welfare, when faced with emotionally salient ...

Emotion regulation is often critical for adaptive decision making. Here, we investigate whether emotion regulation defects following focal prefrontal brain damage are associated with exceptionally irrational economic decision making in situations of unfair treatment. In the Ultimatum Game, two players are given one opportunity to split a sum of money. One player (the proposer) offers a portion ...

Empathy plays a crucial role in our relationships with others and enhances personal well-being. The brain areas that are critical for the experience of on-line empathy and empathic behavior are not known. The current study investigated the neural substrates of empathy through the examination of whether the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC) is critical for empathy. For the first time, on-lin...

The VMPC function is a combination of triple permutation composition and integer addition. It differs from a simple triple permutation composition with one integer addition operation performed on some of the elements of the permutation. The consequence of this addition operation is corruption of cycle structure of the transformed permutation the fundamental source of the function's resistance t...

We find statistical weaknesses in 20 RC4-like algorithms including the original RC4, RC4A, PC-RC4 and others. This is achieved using a simple statistical test. We found only one algorithm which was able to pass the test VMPC-R. This algorithm, being approximately three times more complex then RC4, is probably the simplest RC4-like cipher capable of producing pseudo-random output.

A zero-inertia micro-grid is a power system consisting of multiple renewable energy sources and storage systems without the presence conventional synchronous generators. In such system, large variation load or source sides during islanded mode operation extremely degrades micro-grid's voltage frequency stability. This study presents virtual inertia-based predictive control strategy for small-sc...