We give a simple example of a learning process in an artiicial neural network: a perceptron learning by noisy training examples, i.e. a \student" learning from an unreliable \teacher." A \gullible novice," who takes for granted everything the teacher says, does in the end far worse than this teacher. Being more \stubborn," i.e. by neglecting some of the teacher's answers, particularly the ones ...

During the past 15 years, many studies have been devoted to the relationship of Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis: the serologic link has been investigated, and chlamydial organisms have been detected in lesions by electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry, in vitro cultivation, PCR, or in situ hybridization; efforts have been made to produce atherosclerosis experimentally in animals by ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami struck the northeastern coastal area of on 11 March 2011, resulting in relocation 329,000 households repair 572,000 houses. Previous studies predominantly addressed impact demographic factors housing recovery. However, types recoveries individual psycho-behavioral have been poorly addressed. This study examined survivors’ personality-trait using a dis...

This article studies the evolution of social power in influence networks with stubborn individuals. We formulate two models grounded on Friedkin–Johnsen opinion dynamics and reflected appraisal mechanism; are defined over issue sequences a single issue, respectively. The key advance original DeGroot–Friedkin is that proposed include empirically observed phenomenon stubbornness are, therefore, m...

Ontology Creation/Population Tasks <-> Tools-reusable across domains Understand a process model (and human's role in this) Semantic Web User-centered process view Convert the (HCI) disbelievers … and keep them practicing "top" or core ontology (use this to bootstrap new domains), Ontology integration Rapid customization (to specific domains) Use domain specific ontologies to organize massive do...

In digital social networks, the filtering algorithms employed by platform management to sieve contents shared among users can alter influence intensity. this article, a Markov multiagent model of opinion dynamics is used analyze possible manipulation under apparently neutral interventions on We consider two-party election, whose voters, modeled as heterogeneous agents, are connected in network ...

This paper describes two experiments which investigate how believers in the paranormal (labelled 'Sheep') and disbelievers (labelled 'Goats') recall different aspects of pseudo-psychic demonstrations (i.e., conjuring tricks that can be misinterpreted as genuine psychic phenomena). In both experiments Ss were first shown a videotape containing pseudo-psychic trickery. They were then asked to rat...

Although chaulmoogra oil is the oldest known and most widely used medication in the treatment of leprosy, no uniform criterion for evaluating its therapeutic value has yet been evolved. In all epochs and within the same epoch there have. existed various schools of thought, some enthusiastic defenders of chaulmoogra, and, at the other extreme, the pessimists and disbelievers in its therapeutic v...

one of the significant legal-theological rule, which has drawn little attention in legal texts, is the rule of “not reprimanding a person for another person’s sin and the unaccountability of the person for other people’s action,” which is expressed as part of āya 164 of sūrat al-an‘ām, ﴾no bearer shall bear another's burden﴿. according to this rule, which includes both matters of this world and...

Smile of the Universe (2020) by Michael Grosso is a delightful book filled with magic and intrigue for inquisitive reader. starts our journey citing many historical events that have been deemed “miraculous” not only Catholic church, which seems to had corner on miracles since Church’s beginnings, but also those fall out realm organized religion. What made this me Grosso’s own particular interes...