When items on one list receive more encoding than items on another list, the improvement in performance usually manifests as an increase in the hit rate and a decrease in the false alarm rate (FAR). A common account of this strength based mirror effect is that participants adopt a more strict criterion following a strongly than weakly encoded list (e.g., Cary & Reder, 2003; Stretch & Wixted, 19...

The SharedPlans formalization of collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1999) stipulates that collaborating agents must commit to certain decision-making processes, but it does not specify those processes. This paper presents a mechanism for group decision making that may be applied to the decisions that agents involved in a SharedPlan need to make: adopting the initial commitment, selecting a recipe, ...

This paper calibrates real and hypothetical willingness-to-accept estimates elicited for consumer goods in a multi-unit, random nth-price auction. Using a within-subject experimental design, we find that people understated their real willingness to accept in the hypothetical regimes, framed both as demand and non-demand revealing. After controlling for personspecific effects, however, hypotheti...

â  â  â  â  narration elements in the story of mousa and khezr â  (based on character and time) â  â  sayyed reza solayman zadeh najafi * â  azim tahmasbi ** â  â  abstract â  â  the story consists of elements such as character and time and the story features. characters make story’s structure and there is not story without character . time element is also necessary for the story . each story...

advertising characters and commercial mascots such as yum yum,  cheetoz monkey, safety-man and many others have made memories of different generations of iranian consumers for many years. they have many abilities to attract attention and create a nostalgic and friendly relationship with the consumer and have a great impact on the sales of products. through a review of the relevant literature, t...

with the adoption of article22 of the family supportact 1391, the  ceiling was determined for dowry. with this explanation that dowry  more than 110 is depending on the couple's wealth that the wife must prove her legal rights and less than 110 coinscovered by article 2 implementation of the financial convictions law that amendment to article 18 of the executive regulations, the principle ...