Brain images are used both as scientific evidence and to illustrate the results of neuroimaging experiments. These images are apt to be viewed as photographs of brain activity, and in so viewing them people are prone to assume that they share the evidential characteristics of photographs. Photographs are epistemically compelling, and have a number of characteristics that underlie what I call th...

Abstract This article starts an engagement on the aesthetics of experiments and offers account for analysing how features in design, evaluation reception experiments. I identify two dimensions aesthetic experiments: design significance. When it comes to a number qualities, such as simplicity, economy aptness, are analysed illustrated with famous Meselson-Stahl experiment. Beautiful also regarde...

There is a myriad of system development methodologies, techniques, and tools that have been developed ever since businesses started using computers for information processing. However, there is no real consensus on the aptness or applicability of these methods. There are proponents and critics of each method, and different organizations use different methods. This article identifies many of the...

This paper studies how prosodic features can help in the automatic detection of alcoholic intoxication. We compute features that have recently been proposed to model speech rhythm such as the pair-wise variability index for consonantal and vocalic segments (PVI) and study their aptness for the task. Further, we use a large prosodic feature vector modelling the usual candidates – pitch, intensit...

A new algorithm for power system disturbance classification is proposed in this paper. It is a two-stage system that employs the great potentials of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), Kalman filter and a fuzzy-expert system. For the first stage, the captured voltage waveform is passed through the DWT to determine the noise inside it. The covariance of this noise is then calculated and fed to...

This study examined how emergent features, which are made salient in the interpretation of metaphor, are related to metaphor appreciation. According to an incongruity resolution model of poetic appreciation, the role of emergent features in metaphor appreciation is predicted to facilitate poetic appreciation by constituting a richer interpretation when topic–vehicle similarity is lower. Two exp...

This article offers a qualified defence of the view that there is a moral difference between telling lies to one's patients, and deceiving them without lying. However, I take issue with certain arguments offered by Jennifer Jackson in support of the same conclusion. In particular, I challenge her claim that to deny that there is such a moral difference makes sense only within a utilitarian fram...

Abstract Testing the homogeneity between two samples of functional data is an important task. While this feasible for intensely measured data, we explain why it challenging sparsely and show what can be done such data. In particular, that testing marginal based on point-wise distributions under some mild constraints propose a new two-sample statistic works well with both intensively The propose...