Picture a pasture open to all (...) As a rational being, each herdsman seeks to maximize his gain. Explicitly or implicitly, more or less consciously, he asks, "What is the utility to me of adding one more animal to the herd?" This utility has one negative and one positive component. 1) The positive component is a function of the increment of one animal. Since the herdsman receives all the proc...

The phenomenon of working poverty is significant and involves an important percentage population in many countries. This paper focuses on sketching, without being exhaustive, the state-of-the-art terms definition size. It also considers possible recent correlations with COVID-19 pandemic rise digital labour platforms. shows difference between labour, work, action according to Hannah Arendt, tog...

Camera trapping is widely used in ecological studies. It is often considered nonintrusive simply because animals are not captured or handled. However, the emission of light and sound from camera traps can be intrusive. We evaluated the daytime and nighttime behavioral responses of four mammalian predators to camera traps in road-based, passive (no bait) surveys, in order to determine how this m...

We present an experimental tool that tests the effect of emotionality (psychological valence, arousal and dominance) of a word meaning or a picture content on the approach-avoidance motivational systems. A participant is presented with a slider with a schematic human figure in the middle and a word/picture at the top or bottom of the slider. The instruction is to use the computer mouse to move ...

The big picture and the little picture The last quarter of 2005 and the beginning of 2006 have seen major changes in health legislation in the UK. Following the lead of many countries from around the world (New Zealand, Ireland, and Italy among others) the UK government, pushed along by individual members of Parliament, have decided to ban smoking in enclosed public spaces such as bars, pubs, a...

A recent comparative analysis of the sequenced genomes of 12 Drosophila species (Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, 2007; Stark et al., 2007) reveals a comprehensive picture of the evolution of small animal genomes and greatly improves computational predictions of functional elements in the D. melanogaster reference sequence.

Methods Family pattern (Karen Mahover) (Groups 1,2,3), HouseTree-Person (John N. Buck) (Group 1), Scale of Tailor by Spilberg-Hanin (Group 3), the Lüscher color test (Groups 2,3), Junior–Senior High School Personality Questionnaire by Cattell (HSPQ – teenager version) (Group 3), Picture of a non-existent animal (M.Z. Dukarevich) (Groups 2,3), Cattell’s methods for junior personality psychology ...

In this work, we shall present some novel process to measure the similarity between picture fuzzy sets. Firstly, we adopt the concept of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets and picture fuzzy sets. Secondly, we develop some similarity measures between picture fuzzy sets, such as, cosine similarity measure, weighted cosine similarity measure, set-theoretic similar...