Abstract With smart speakers diffusing into society, artificial intelligence is moving from the imaginative reservoirs of dystopian storytelling vernacular living. How do users perceive communication with it? Are Alexa and Siri considered simple devices, sentient assistants, or even friends? Based on nine qualitative interviews former speaker in Germany, this study analyzes use related personal...

Abstract Ignatius of Antioch makes very little reference to specific texts from the Scriptures Israel. This has been interpreted as evidence interest in Scripture, which, turn used plot on a parting ways trajectory. The for this interpretation is weak. refers Scripture way that comparable some Pauline letters. Furthermore, his statements about and use suggest he differs hermeneutical assumption...

in order to evaluate of yield, water and radiation use efficiencies in wheat genotypes, a field experiment was conducted using a split split plot design based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at khorasan razavi agricultural and natural resources research centre (mashhad, iran) in 2006-2008. main plots were assigned to two levels of water stress treatments; d1: optim...

Jason Merchant (2004, and Chap. 3, this volume) proposes to account for all speech acts performed with “fragments,” whether in discourse-initial position or otherwise, by appealing to syntactic ellipsis. Though his proposal is insightful, I offer empirical and methodological considerations against it. Empirical problems include: (a) His alleged “elliptical sentences” do not embed the way they s...

Evidence suggests that binding, or encoding a feature with respect to other features in time and space, can convey cognitive advantages. However, evidence across many kinds of stimuli and paradigms presents a mixed picture, alternatively showing cognitive costs or cognitive advantages associated with maintaining bound representations. We examined memory for colored letters drawn from similar an...

The article examines the tensions involved in the development of treatment for mental disorders during the period 1950-1980 in the United States. It relates those tensions to the diffusion of a social ideal strongly influenced by the subjectivist fervor characteristic of post-war America but also internally contradictory. Psychiatric diagnosis came to be seen as a way of disqualifying the indiv...