I consider an argument, due to Geoffrey Lee, that we can know a priori from the leftright asymmetrical character of experience that our brains are left-right asymmetrical. Lee’s argument assumes a premise he calls relationism, which I show is well-supported by the best philosophical picture of spacetime. I explain why Lee’s relationism is compatible with left-right asymmetrical laws. I then sho...

AbstractIn the present study, attempt has been made to examine the effectiveness of peer and teacher scaffolding in reading comprehension of intermediate EFL students in symmetrical and asymmetrical groups. To do so, sixty intermediate students were purposively selected out of 150 intermediate students in Hamadan Islamic Azad University and Kish Language Institute in Hamadan. They were divided ...

We address the problem of unsupervised and language-pair independent alignment of symmetrical and asymmetrical parallel corpora. Asymmetrical parallel corpora contain a large proportion of 1-to-0/0-to-1 and 1-to-many/many-to-1 sentence correspondences. We have developed a novel approach which is fast and allows us to achieve high accuracy in terms of F1 for the alignment of both asymmetrical an...

To investigate the interaction between facial expressions and facial gender information during face perception, the present study matched the intensities of the two types of information in face images and then adopted the orthogonal condition of the Garner Paradigm to present the images to participants who were required to judge the gender and expression of the faces; the gender and expression ...

We demonstrate theoretically an extreme scattering nonreciprocity, namely nonreciprocal transparency, in asymmetric aggregate of deep-subwavelength gyrotropic trimer rods. By examining the characteristics indicated differential extinction efficiency spectra, we explicitly reveal underlying mechanism such pronounced arising from asymmetrical magnetoelectric cross interactions besides simultaneou...

Neural synapses are intercellular asymmetrical junctions that transmit biochemical and biophysical information between a neuron and a target cell. They are very tight, dynamic, and well organized by many synaptic adhesion molecules, signaling receptors, ion channels, and their associated cytoskeleton that bear forces. Mechanical forces have been an emerging factor in regulating axon guidance an...

Hydrothermal reaction of Cd(NO3)2 · 4H2O with a flexible asymmetrical bridging ligand, 4-(2pyrazinylthiomethyl)benzoic acid (Hpztmb), at 120 ◦C yielded a novel one-dimensional Cd(II) coordination polymer [Cd(pztmb)2(H2O)2]n (1), which has been characterized by IR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, thermogravimetry, and X-ray crystallography. The metal-organic chain of the complex is held togethe...