When pronouncing novel/unknown words, readers often use prior experience with similar, neighbor words. Comparison to neighbors can be helpful for unknown or novel words (wug is like pug), but it can also lead to errors (pint is not like mint). We investigate whether pronunciation can be affected by top-down influences, specifically the perceived taboo-ness of a known neighbor. While orthographi...

This paper describes and explains some regularities in the frequency of numbers in text. An analysis of number frequencies in text corpora in Dutch, English, German, and French confirms the expectation that frequency is highly dependent on two factors: magnitude and roundness. Roundness (defined as number frequency in an approximation context) proves to be related to three arithmetical properti...

This paper deals with sti ness analysis for e ective peg-in/out-hole tasks using multingered robot hand without internger coupling. We rst observe the fact that some of coupling sti ness elements cannot be planned arbitrary. Then, we analyze the conditions of the speci ed sti ness matrix in the operational space to successfully and more e ectively achieve the given peg-in/out-hole tasks. It is ...

INTRODUCTION The negative impact of paediatric cancer on parents is well known and is even greater when intensive treatments are used. This study aimed to describe how couples whose child has received a transplant for the treatment of leukaemia view conjugal resilience and to evaluate the role of we-ness as a precursor of conjugal adjustment. METHODS Four parental couples were interviewed. In...

In this paper, I give an account of a hitherto neglected kind ‘here’, which does not work as intentional indexical. Instead, it automatically refers to the immediate perceptual environment subject’s body, is known peripersonal space. between self and external world, there something like buffer zone, place in objects events have unique significance for subject because they may soon be contact wi...