the matter of meaning in place, is one of the main qualities of human life. people consciously or unconsciously looking for meanings in places. the importance of finding the meaning of place is that, understanding the meaning will lead to “act” in place. finding the place friendly, or finding it insecure will lead to act differently. now the question is that, is the meaning of place, something ...

In a recent work, Doerr and Fouz [Asymptotically Optimal Randomized Rumor Spreading, in ArXiv] present a new quasi-randomPUSH algorithm for the rumor spreading problem (also known as gossip spreading or message propagation problem). Their hybrid protocol outperforms all known PUSH protocols. In this work, we add to the hybrid protocol a direction-reversing element. We show that this direction-r...

The effect of color on orthonasal and retronasal odor intensities was investigated. When odorants were smelled orthonasally (i.e., through the nostrils), color enhanced odor intensity ratings, consistent with previous reports. However, when odorants were smelled retronasally (i.e., the odorous solution was put in the mouth), color reduced odor intensity ratings. These different effects of color...

Social capital is put forward as a suitable theoretical framework to explain knowledge sharing mechanisms in organizations. The aim of this paper is to summarize lessons learned from different contexts where the social capital dimensions have been used to explain information and knowledge sharing. The contexts studied are mainly within business organizations, virtual worlds, and higher educatio...

The primary role of any biological nervous system (including the human) is to process incoming information in a way that allows motor choices to be made that increases the subjective utility of the organism. Or put slightly differently, ”to make sure good things happen”. There are a number of ways that such a process can be done, but one possible hypothesis is that the human nervous system has ...

Proof. Proof of claim 1: Suppose all agents acquire full information. In this case Π(bi) = 0 and each agent has to pay c. Deviating from the equilibrium means that the agent receives an uninformative signal, i.e. bi → ∞, but does not have to pay c. From the definition we can easily see that as bi → ∞, τv → 0. In the full information equilibrium, the agent knows that ā = s and thus Var [ā|Ii] = ...

One way to formulate this mathematically is to ask for an isotopy to remove the meridian loop m from a rigid wire w embedded in the 3-sphere, as shown in Figure 3a. (The wire represents the boy with his attached string, where the upper loop of the wire is his right hand, while the meridian represents the girl with her string.) Of course this is easy: just slide m along w to a point just below t...

Everyone may think she knows what is good and what is bad. One more theoretical article will hardly make anyone act differently. My goal here is to share simple recipes that are easy and often fun to put in practice and that make a big difference in one’s life. I am writing this note as an opportunity to share my most important snippets of advices with my students and younger collaborators at E...