In this paper, the issue of the prion hypothesis, a simmering controversy within the scientific community, is addressed. We inquire into the appropriateness of the use of certain augmentations and rhetoric approaches used during scientific debates, as well as the aptness of unequivocal statements in textbooks that indicate "abnormal prions" as a primary cause of Transmissible Spongiform Encepha...

Introduction Figurative comparisons consisting of two nouns (a target and a base) can be expressed in two grammatical forms, i.e., in simile form (X is like Y), or in metaphor form (X is Y). Recently, many studies have shown that there are substantial differences between metaphors and similes. In particular, much evidence has been found for people’s grammatical preference for figurative compari...

As naturally occurring examples of folk culture and creativity, internet memes provide a rich testbed to examine the interrelationships among cognitive motivational factors that influence their impact. In two studies with participants recruited over internet, we measured variety appraisals both apolitical political focus on role metaphorical aptness personal relatability as predictors comprehen...

Abstract According to the Fittingness Defense, even if consequences of anger are overall bad, it does not follow that we should aim avoid it. This is because fitting involves an accurate appraisal wrongdoing and essential for appreciating injustice signaling our disapproval (Srinivasan 2018; Shoemaker 2018). My in this paper show Defense fails. While appraisals prima facie rational justified on...

Bacillus coagulans, a tannery wastewater isolate, previously shown to bind dissolved Cr(VI), retained its ability to biosorb Cr(VI) in different matrices. Polymeric materials like agar, agarose, calcium alginate and polyacrylamide were screened. Agarose emerged as the suitable candidate for biomass immobilization mainly due to its higher stability and integrity in acidic pH. Aptness of agarose ...

This paper considers the symbolic determinant computation. The aptness of permutation method for symbolic determinant is justified and a new efficient algorithm is proposed to implement the permutation method. Exploiting the fact computers perform arithmetic operations fast, the proposed algorithm generate all the permutations without manipulation on additional 2nd array or redundancies found i...

A central question in metaphor research is what processes are involved in metaphor comprehension, especially which of comparison and categorization processes governs metaphor comprehension. In this paper, I attempt to provide a computational solution to this problem using comparison and categorization algorithms based on word vectors in a multidimensional semantic space constructed by latent se...

Previous studies show that public discourse and social media around the Covid-19 pandemic heavily use war framing, despite fact its misuse inaptness to elaborate all aspects of were already noted. This paper analyses conceptual metaphors in Croatian (social) on pandemic, focusing metaphor. Using a specialized corpus manually chosen relevant texts Croatian, compiled for this purpose, we investig...

We use information from the Web for performing our daily tasks more and more often. Locating the right resources that help us in doing so is a daunting task, especially with the present rate of growth of the Web as well as the many different kinds of resources available. The tasks of search engines is to assist us in finding those resources that are apt for our given tasks. In this paper we pro...

Bayesians model one’s doxastic state by subjective probabilities. But in traditional epistemology, in logic-based artificial intelligence, and in everyday life, one’s doxastic state is usually expressed in a qualitative, binary way: either one accepts (believes) a proposition or one does not. What is the relationship between qualitative and probabilistic belief? I show that, besides the familia...