Experiments and simulations of MEMS thermal sensors for wall shear-stress measurements in aerodynamic control applications [PDF]
MEMS thermal shear-stress sensors exploit heat-transfer effects to measure the shear stress exerted by an air flow on its solid boundary, and have promising applications in aerodynamic control.
Han, Zhigang +7 more
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Default Inheritance in Modified Statements: Bias or Inference?
It is a fact that human subjects rate sentences about typical properties such as “Ravens are black” as very likely to be true. In comparison, modified sentences such as “Feathered ravens are black” receive lower ratings, especially if the modifier is ...
Corina Strößner
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Conceptual Analysis in Metaethics [PDF]
A critical survey of various positions on the nature, use, possession, and analysis of normative concepts. We frame our treatment around G.E. Moore’s Open Question Argument, and the ways metaethicists have responded by departing from a Classical Theory ...
Finlay, Stephen, Laskowski, N. G.
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The Chinese encyclopedia and the living dead
This article presents a case study in queer hermeneutics dealing with the construction of a corpus in a comparative study. More specifically, I propose to queer the category ‘living dead’ by restructuring its internal taxonomy.
Mattia Petricola
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A proposal for the application of prototype theory to the lexicographic treatment of polysemy in Serbian [PDF]
This paper has proposed a model of treatment of polysemy in monolingual dictionaries of Serbian, which is based on the idea of the solid grounding of lexicographic practice in cognitive linguistic theory.
Halas-Popović Ana V.
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The Cognition of Severe Moral Failure: A Novel Approach to the Perception of Evil
I describe the perception of evil as a categorization judgment, based on a prototype, with extensive feedback loops and top-down influences. Based on the attachment approach to moral judgment (Govrin, 2014, 2018), I suggest that the perception of evil ...
Aner Govrin
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Research on design of Tibetan cultural and creative products based on prototype theory [PDF]
Aiming at the problems of homogeneity, simplification and low cultural recognition of Tibetan cultural and creative products, design and application research are carried out in combination with prototype theory.
Shutao Zhang +3 more
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Why are you amused: Unveiling multimodal humor from the prototype theoretical perspective
This paper looks at multimodal humour through the lens of prototype theory in the framework of conventional incongruity theory of humour, aiming for a unified linguistic and semiotic approach to humour.
Qiaoyun Chen, Guiying Jiang
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Teaching multiplication and division realistically in Indonesian primary schools : a prototype of local instructional theory [PDF]
The implementation of the 1994 mathematics curriculum in Indonesian primary\ud schools is focusing on the teaching and learning arithmetic. The goals are to prepare\ud the students to use and apply their mathematics knowledge and mathematical way\ud of ...
Armanto, Dian
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Typicality, graded membership, and vagueness [PDF]
This paper addresses theoretical problems arising from the vagueness of language terms, and intuitions of the vagueness of the concepts to which they refer.
Hampton, J. A.
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