Hand signs with symbolic meaning can often be utilized more successfully than words to communicate an intention; however, the underlying brain mechanisms are undefined. The present study using magnetoencephalography (MEG) demonstrates that the primary visual, mirror neuron, social recognition and object recognition systems are involved in hand sign recognition. MEG detected well-orchestrated mu...

In Islamic culture, dome continues its ancient representation when it becomes a clear epitome of Islamic substantial creation of the universe. Islamic signs such as center, circle and sphere which are inherently dome are immediately realized via a symbolic transfer. Although domes have unavoidable relationship with other elements signifying Iranian mosques form and function, it includes secrets...

Based on formal-theoretical principles about the sign processes involved, we have built synthetic experiments to investigate the emergence of communication based on symbols and indexes in a distributed system of sign users, following theoretical constraints from C.S.Peirce theory of signs, following a Synthetic Semiotics approach. In this paper, we summarize these computational experiments and ...

How to make war? This is the essential question of text developed here regarding Baudrillard's political thought, especially from work entitled Symbolic Exchange and Death (L’échange symbolique et la mort, 1976). An introductory answer posed above indicates that wars, in current times, surpass principle reality through use simulations, which construction a hyper-real era. The capital its signs ...

The Islamic Revolution of Iran has included symbolic aspects. The fundamental question of the article is that, what are the symbolic aspects of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and why the Islamic Republic of Iran has used these features to influence Islamic countries? Since the bearers of the word and the symbolic goods have the most legitimacy in social and political fields, this revolution has...

Determinant Decision Diagram (DDD) is a variant of binary decision diagrams (BDDs) for representing symbolic matrix determinants and cofactors in symbolic circuit analysis. DDD-based symbolic analysis algorithms have time and space complexities proportional to the number of DDD vertices. Inspired by the ideas of Rudell, Drechsler, et. al. on BDD minimization, we present lowerbound based exact a...

Following two meetings as a discussion group in the previous international meetings, we moved forward to work within three specifically defined sub-groups formulating existing and future lines of inquiry with related data sets. We aimed to focus on the use of data, which ranged from qualitative think-aloud accounts to pre-post tests asking what is the role of data in our study. If there is a th...

We discuss the symbolic dynamics of biochemical networks with separate timescales. We show that symbolic dynamics of monomolecular reaction networks with separated rate constants can be described by deterministic, acyclic automata with a number of states that is inferior to the number of biochemical species. For nonlinear pathways, we propose a general approach to approximate their dynamics by ...

Dating back as far as 100 ka, the Blombos ochre and the Diepkloof ostrich egg engravings are considered among the earliest fossilized evidence of human symbolic behavior. Of special interest to this study is the temporal trajectory spanning more than 30 thousand years from earlier simpler parallel line patterns to later complex cross-hatchings suggesting adaptive compositional development. Thro...