Abstract Speaking with conversational AIs, technologies whose interfaces enable human-like interaction based on natural language, has become a common phenomenon. During these interactions, people form their beliefs due to the say-so of AIs. In this paper, I consider, and then reject, concepts testimony-based instrument-based as suitable for analysis acquired from technologies. argue that concep...

We study a model where the aggregate trading of currency speculators reveals new information to the central bank and affects its decision on whether to abandon a fixed exchange rate regime. We show that the learning process gives rise to informational complementarities among traders, which generates coordination motives in their trading and reduces the informational content of the market signal...

The main physical features and operating principles of isothermal nanomachines in the microworld, common to both classical and quantum machines, are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the dual, constructive role of dissipation and thermal fluctuations, the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, heat losses and free energy transduction, thermodynamic efficiency, and thermodynamic efficiency at max...

We investigate how interdependence among investors' beliefs affects the reliance on market prices as a performance measure and this in turn firm's preference for financial reporting quality. When investors want to align their values more with other beliefs, optimal contracts become reliant accounting report less price, emphasizing stewardship role of herding market. If baseline quality required...

This paper applied the advocacy coalition framework to explore and explain political processes creating policies enhance energy efficiency of European Union (EU) industry. The used legislation on audits management systems as a proxy for EU policy in Based qualitative text analysis documents, including proposal recast directive, amendments suggested by Member States, Council Parliament, reports ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the influence of group psychoeducation in bipolar disorder on selected aspects of cognitive representation of illness. METHODS 51 patients with bipolar diagnosis were included in the study, and 24 were included in the final statistical analysis. The participants took part in 8 meetings of group psychoeducation. The assessment of selected aspects of cognitive representatio...

in the family, women can benefit from the newest information and knowledge on various life subjects and use them to train other members of the family; they can also use the knowledge to replce new and optimal beliefs with the false ones thereby oncreasing the soci-cultural level of the family more than before. in this study, family economic efficiency including women's participation in hou...

BACKGROUND The efficiency of stepped care systems partly relies on systematic monitoring of patient outcomes and timely decisions to "step up" patients without any clear therapeutic gains to the next level of treatment. Qualitative evidence has suggested that this does not occur consistently, nor always congruently with clinical guidelines. AIMS To investigate factors that influence psycholog...

This paper presents a philosophical analysis of three cognitive states familiar and important to psychoanalysts--phantasy, neurotic-belief, and belief-proper. It explores the differences among these three propositional attitudes and finds that the development of secondary process capacities of reality testing and truth directness out of earlier primary process operations (themselves prior to co...