Twiddler's syndrome is a rare complication seen in patients with implanted pacemakers or defibrillators. The condition typically presents with device malfunction and occurs when the patient either consciously or unconsciously twists and rotates the implanted device in its pocket, resulting in torsion and dislodgement of the implanted lead. A case of twiddler's syndrome involving a transvenous d...

The function of consciousness has often been investigated by looking at the cognitive processes that can (not) be performed without conscious awareness. most important — historically and theoretically in this context are semantic processing information integration. Here, I will argue a subliminal priming version same-different task is perfect tool to investigate these because it (i) allows clea...

In the last two decades, art and technology have become increasingly inseparable. Technology, in this case internet, has given birth to a new era known as digital era, followed by emergence of many problems, one which is field copyright. A number cases copyright infringement were committed creators public general, both consciously unconsciously due lack knowledge about copyright, especially now...

In this essay we review the evidence from marketing research about price presentation of consumer products and discuss how these lessons have been applied—consciously or unconsciously—in the design of the U.S. tax system. Our perspective is that, in most situations, the designers of the tax system attempt to minimize the perceived burden of any given amount of tax collections. We allow, though,...

Neurofeedback is a strong direct training method for brain function, wherein brain activity patterns are measured and displayed as feedback, and trainees try to stabilize the feedback signal onto certain desirable states to regulate their own mental states. Here, we introduce a novel neurofeedback method, using the mismatch negativity (MMN) responses elicited by similar sounds that cannot be co...

By combining binocular suppression technique and a probe detection paradigm, we investigated attentional bias to invisible stimuli and its gender difference in both high trait anxiety (HTA) and low trait anxiety (LTA) individuals. As an attentional cue, happy or fearful face pictures were presented to HTAs and LTAs for 800 ms either consciously or unconsciously (through binocular suppression). ...

In this paper, we present a multi-agent system implementing a fully distributed Social Network System supporting user profiles as FOAF profiles. This system is built around the idea that users should be the sole owners of the information they provide (either consciously or unconsciously) and addresses privacy issues by design, also minimizing the amount of information users have to disclose in ...

In this article, I shall review contemporary Chinese studies of Mencius in Taiwan. In order for this review to be more focused, I shall not attempt to include all the books and articles published on Mencius. Instead, I shall focus on material that follows these two approaches: (1) philosophical and (2) intellectual-historical. Contemporary scholars who take the first approach see the Mencius as...

Humanities Computing is an emergent field. The activities described as ‘Humanities Computing’ continue to expand in number and sophistication, yet no concrete definition of the field exists, and there are few academic departments that specialize in this area. Most introspection regarding the role, meaning, and focus of ‘‘Humanities Computing’’ has come from a practical and pragmatic perspective...

Everybody interested in research has a stock of stories to illustrate their theories on how important developments arise. Usually the stories are selected (consciously or unconsciously) to reflect the importance of the sort of work that the storyteller does. More than 20 years ago Julius Comroe, a professor of physiology, and Robert Dripps, a professor of anaesthetics, became tired and irritate...