"Making it explicit" makes a difference: Evidence for a dissociation of spontaneous and intentional level 1 perspective taking in high-functioning autism

This research was supported by Volkswagen Foundation grant “Being addressed as you: Conceptual and empirical investigations of a Second-Person approach to other minds” awarded to LS and BT. LS is also supported by the Koeln Fortune Program of the Medical Faculty, University of Cologne. BT was supported by a European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship FP7-PEOPLE-IEF 237502 “Social Brain.” We thank Dana Samson for providing the stimulus material and Julia Proft and Franka Pieplow for data collection. For helpful comments and suggestions we are also grateful to three anonymous reviewers.Peer reviewedPreprin

Eyes on the mind : investigating the influence of gaze dynamics on the perception of others in real-time social interaction

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This study was partially supported by a grant of the Köln Fortune Program of the Medical Faculty at the University of Cologne to Leonhard Schilbach and by a grant “Other Minds” of the German Ministry of Research and Education to Kai Vogeley. The authors would like to thank Stephanie Alexius and Leonhard Engels for their assistance in data collection.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Why we interact : on the functional role of the striatum in the subjective experience of social interaction

Acknowledgments We thank Neil Macrae and Axel Cleeremans for comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. Furthermore, we are grateful to Dorothé Krug and Barbara Elghahwagi for their assistance in data acquisition. This study was supported by a grant of the Köln Fortune Program of the Medical Faculty at the University of Cologne to L.S. and by a grant “Other Minds” of the German Ministry of Research and Education to K.V.Peer reviewedPreprin

Анализ современных технологий водогазового воздействия на продуктивный пласт

Объектом исследования является оборудование для обратной закачки газа в пласт с целью увеличения нефтеотдачи а также утилизации попутного нефтяного газа. Цель работы – анализ эффективности внедрения новой технологической схемы по подготовке водогазовой смеси для закачки в пласт. В выпускной квалификационной работе приведены сведения о современном состоянии технологии обратной закачки газа в пласт. На основе промышленных испытаний на месторождениях и лабораторных исследований были проанализированы технологические схемы закачки водогазовой смеси в пласт с целью увеличения нефтеотдачи. Рассчитано устьевое давление необходимое для закачки раннее подготовленной смеси воды, газа. Приведены экономические расчеты, подтверждающие положительный эффект предлагаемой технологической схемы.Object of a research is the equipment for the return pumping gas in layer for the purpose of increase in oil recovery and also utilization of associated petroleum gas. The work purpose – the analysis of efficiency of introduction of the new technological scheme on preparation of water gas mix for downloading in layer. In final qualification work data on the current state of technology of the return pumping gas are provided to layer. On the basis of industrial tests on fields and laboratory researches technological schemes of pumping water gas mix in layer for the purpose of increase in oil recovery have been analysed

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A Non-Verbal Turing Test: Differentiating Mind from Machine in Gaze-Based Social Interaction

In social interaction, gaze behavior provides important signals that have a significant impact on our perception of others. Previous investigations, however, have relied on paradigms in which participants are passive observers of other persons’ gazes and do not adjust their gaze behavior as is the case in real-life social encounters. We used an interactive eye-tracking paradigm that allows participants to interact with an anthropomorphic virtual character whose gaze behavior is responsive to where the participant looks on the stimulus screen in real time. The character’s gaze reactions were systematically varied along a continuum from a maximal probability of gaze aversion to a maximal probability of gaze-following during brief interactions, thereby varying contingency and congruency of the reactions. We investigated how these variations influenced whether participants believed that the character was controlled by another person (i.e., a confederate) or a computer program. In a series of experiments, the human confederate was either introduced as naïve to the task, cooperative, or competitive. Results demonstrate that the ascription of humanness increases with higher congruency of gaze reactions when participants are interacting with a naïve partner. In contrast, humanness ascription is driven by the degree of contingency irrespective of congruency when the confederate was introduced as cooperative. Conversely, during interaction with a competitive confederate, judgments were neither based on congruency nor on contingency. These results offer important insights into what renders the experience of an interaction truly social: Humans appear to have a default expectation of reciprocation that can be influenced drastically by the presumed disposition of the interactor to either cooperate or compete

Ab initio kinetics predictions for H-atom abstraction from diethoxymethane by hydrogen, methyl, and ethyl radicals and the subsequent unimolecular reactions

Diethoxymethane (DEM) is a promising oxygenated fuel and fuel additive, which has similar positive combustion characteristics as dimethoxymethane. DEM contains C-C bonds and can form ethylene via beta-scission, which potentially increases its sooting tendency. Since DEM is rarely studied, however, kinetic modeling attempts are forced to rely on rate constant analogies. Therefore, we employ high level CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pV(T+D)Z//B2PLYPD3BJ/6-311++(d,p) theory along with transition state theory to predict reaction rate constants for H-abstraction by H and CH3 and the subsequent unimolecular reactions. We further prove that the DLPNO approximation to CCSD(T) leads to a deviation of less than 0.25 k/mol in barrier heights for the presently studied open-shell electronic structures and use it for the prediction of reaction rate constants for H-abstraction by C2H5 radicals. We find that H-abstraction by ethyl radicals might denote a significant pathway, which should not be neglected in kinetic modeling studies of DEM. It is also shown that reaction pathways leading to ethylene formation are of minor importance and give thereby a first insight into the fate of the C-C bonds. To the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first high-level ab-initio study of DEM, which makes the reaction kinetics and thermochemistry data provided by this study vital for future comprehensive kinetic modeling of DEM. (C) 2018 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Peer reviewe

Информационная система оценки преимуществ внедрения облачных технологий на предприятии

Пояснительная записка содержит 91 страницу, 10 таблиц, 38 рисунков, 16 источников, 6 приложений. Ключевые слова: облачные технологии, экспертная оценка, критерии, интегральный показатель, провайдеры, облачные сервисы, информационная система. Объектом исследования является процесс оценки преимуществ внедрения облачных технологий на предприятии. Цели и задачи работы – разработка информационной системы оценки преимуществ внедрения облачных технологий на предприятии. В процессе исследования проводился теоретический анализ, обзор аналогов, проектирование и разработка информационной системы. В результате разработана информационная система, реализующая основные функции: учёт данных о провайдерах облачных сервисов, расчёт стоимости на внедрение облачных сервисов, анализ эффективности внедрения обThe explanatory note contains 91 pages, 10 tables, 38 pictures, 16 sources, 6 supplement. Keywords: cloud technology, expert assessment, criteria, integral index, providers, cloud services, information system. The object of research is the assessment process of the benefits of the implementation of cloud computing in the enterprise. The objectives and tasks of the work are in the development of information system of the benefits assessment of implementation of cloud computing in the enterprise. Theoretical analysis, review of analogues, design and development of an information system were carried out during research. As a result, the information system was developed that implements the following basic functions: accounting data about the providers of cloud services, the cost calculation f

Experimental and theoretical investigations of methyl formate oxidation including hot beta-scission

Recently the possibility of hot beta-scission pathways gained attention. These reactions give a shortcut during the important fuel consumption phase in combustion processes leading from H-atom abstraction directly to the beta-scission products without fuel radical thermalization. Methyl formate (MF) was shown to be prone to hot beta-scission due to a low beta-scission barrier height. Furthermore, MF as smallest methyl ester can be considered as biodiesel surrogate and it is an important intermediate product during combustion of various ethers. In this work a predominantly ab-initio derived detailed kinetic model of MF combustion is developed including hot beta-scission pathways and compared to a sophisticated literature model based on classical estimation methods. For this, new stoichiometric MF in air ignition delay time measurements in a shock tube and a rapid compression machine over a wide temperature range (790 K-1250 K) and pressures of 10, 20 and 40 bar served as validation targets. The experimental ignition delay times (IDT) show Arrhenius type behavior in both facilities at all conditions. The newly developed quantum-based model catches the pressure dependency and low-temperature reactivity well although overpredicting the IDT at higher temperatures. It was found that hot beta-scission is the major depletion pathway of formate group-centered MF radicals. This, however, does not change the overall reactivity of MF combustion due to the low stability of the alkyl peroxide (RO2) at the formate group. For species with competing thermal beta-scission and RO2 formation, however, hot beta-scission may have a significant impact. (C) 2018 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Peer reviewe