Auto-dual connected operators based on iterative merging algorithms

This paper proposes a new set of connected operators that are autodual. Classical connected operators are analyzed within the framework of merging algorithms. The discussion highlights three basic notions: merging order , merging criterion and region model. As a result a general merging algorithm is proposed. It can be used to create new connected operators and in particular autodual operators. Implementation issues are also discussed.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

“ESTADO ACTUAL DEL DIAGNÓSTICO Y TRATAMIENTO FARMACOLÓGICO DE LA ENFERMEDAD INFLAMATORIA INTESTINAL: (REVISIÓN DE LA LITERATURA)”

La enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal (EII), es un conjunto de trastornos gastrointestinales idiopóticos con episodios de remisión y exacerbación de duración variable, los cuales incluyen una amplia variedad de presentaciones y manifestaciones clínicas, cuya característica principal es la inflamación crónica del tubo digestivo en diferentes localizaciones

Developmental effects in the online use of morphosyntactic cues in sentence processing: Evidence from Tagalog

Children must necessarily process their input in order to learn it, yet the architecture of the developing parsing system and how it interfaces with acquisition is unclear. In the current paper we report experimental and corpus data investigating adult and children's use of morphosyntactic cues for making incremental online predictions of thematic roles in Tagalog, a verb-initial symmetrical voice language of the Philippines. In Study 1, Tagalog-speaking adults completed a visual world eye-tracking experiment in which they viewed pictures of causative actions that were described by transitive sentences manipulated for voice and word order. The pattern of results showed that adults process agent and patient voice differently, predicting the upcoming noun in the patient voice but not in the agent voice, consistent with the observation of a patient voice preference in adult sentence production. In Study 2, our analysis of a corpus of child-directed speech showed that children heard more patient voice- than agent voice-marked verbs. In Study 3, 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old children completed a similar eye-tracking task as used in Study 1. The overall pattern of results suggested that, like the adults in Study 1, children process agent and patient voice differently in a manner that reflects the input distributions, with children developing towards the adult state across early childhood. The results are most consistent with theoretical accounts that identify a key role for input distributions in acquisition and language processin

Hard to recall but easy to judge: retrieval strategies in social information processing

The present research distinguishes two different retrieval modes: exhaustive and heuristic retrieval. Whereas exhaustive retrieval is elemental and retrieves specific memory traces, the output of heuristic retrieval is a memory composite. Different memory tasks depend upon these two retrieval modes in various degrees. Using a part-list cueing paradigm, we found a dissociation: providing part-list cues hindered the retrieval of the non-cued behaviors in free recall but boosted frequency estimates. In a second study, using a collaborative recall paradigm, each of three participants recalled one of the previously presented behaviors in turn. We hypothesized that behaviors recalled by other participants would become hyper-accessible, inhibiting the retrieval of non-recalled behaviors but boosting the corresponding frequency estimates relative to non-collaborative recall conditions. The results supported the hypotheses. The parallelism of the results of the two studies suggests that retrieval interference or inhibition is a crucial feature of social memory.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Enhancing the comparability between part-list cueing and collaborative recall

The effects of part-list cueing and of collaborative recall in memory performance have been recently addressed as parallel phenomena. Notably they both impair recall (and boost frequency estimates) and they have been explained by the same underlying mechanisms. However the comparability between the two paradigms is hindered by a number of procedural differences. The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of a new paradigm that makes standard part-list cueing and collaborative recall more comparable. In our study we compared free recall and frequency estimates of participants in a non-cueing condition with the same performance in a standard partlist cueing condition and in a condition in which part-list cues were gradually presented during recall (as it occurs in collaborative recall). Results indicate that the effects of part-list cueing continued to be reliable in both cueing conditions. Namely, recall was impaired and frequency estimates were boosted relatively to a non-cueing condition. The results obtained with this new method that enhances the direct comparability of the two paradigms, provides further evidence for the parallel between the two effects.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Image sequence analysis and merging

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