doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00018 When memory leads the brain to take scenes at face value: face areas are reactivated at test by scenes that were paired with faces at study

People pay attention to the appearance of others, and personal characteristics can affect many types of decisions. We ask, is there informational value in a face in a situation where trust and reciprocity can increase earnings? We use a laboratory trust game experiment where subjects: are unable

Extension of static mesh numerics in a CFD solver to cases with deforming boundaries considerably expands the scope of its use. Dynamic mesh handling includes deforming mesh cases, where the number and connectivity of mesh elements remains unchanged; and topological changes, where mesh size and connectivity varies during the simulation. Cases where the boundary deformation itself represents a part of the solution demand special attention: here, mesh handling needs to be fully automatic. This paper describes dynamic mesh support in OpenFOAM, a C++ object-oriented library for numerical simulations in continuum mechanics. Unlike other tools, where dy-namic mesh support is usually retro-fitted, object-oriented dynamic mesh engine has been built up from ground-up. Emphasis is given polyhedral cell support in mesh analysis and discretisation, vertex-based automatic mesh motion techniques and hierarchical design of topology morphing engine. The paper is completed with examples of solution-dependent motion with large boundary deformation.

global optimality, and can be used to train SVM's over very large data sets. The main idea behind the decomposition is the iterative solution of sub-problems and the evaluation of optimality conditions which are used both to generate improved iterative values, and also establish the stopping

Information resources seem to be neither fully abstract uni-versals, nor particular concrete arrangements of matter and energy. The subjects of our metadata statements are there-fore elusive. This puzzle presents few practical problems for traditional documents, but applications such as scientific data management call for more precise accounts. The prob-lem of relating fully abstract properties to events in time is explored through a comparison of encoding strategies.

Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com platform, which provides services for many web

A Recovery of Face Value at Default (RFV) means receiving the same fractional recovery of par at default for bonds of the same issuer and seniority, regardless of remaining maturity. We find that RFV in a parsimonious structural credit risk model has a profound impact on hedging interest rate risk

People who hold strong opinions on complex social issues are likely to examine relevant empirical evidence in a biased manner. They are apt to accept "confirming" evidence at face value while subjecting "discontinuing " evidence to critical evaluation, and as a result to draw

if that initial choice is close to a good solution. We devised a method called “affinity propagation,” which takes as input measures of similarity between pairs of data points. Real-valued messages are exchanged between data points until a high-quality set of exemplars and corresponding clusters gradually emerges

This article examines systematic differences in people’s spending behavior when using foreign currencies. Rather than overspend or underspend in general, we show that individuals ’ valuation of a product in an unfamiliar foreign currency is biased toward its nominal value—its face value