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[ontogenetic formation of stereognosis brain mechanism (eeg study)].in this study the age specificity of inter- and intrahemispheric relations during stereognostic task (tactile identification of predetermined chess-like pieces with right or left hand) in adults and children of 5-6, 7-8 an 9-10 years old is considered. the combined pattern of cortical interactions was revealed in adults. its appeared in significant increasing (compared to baseline) of interhemispheric eeg relations along with increasing of system interactions of anterior and posterior cortex are ...201020196444
cooperation stimulation strategies for peer-to-peer wireless live video-sharing social networks.human behavior analysis in video sharing social networks is an emerging research area, which analyzes the behavior of users who share multimedia content and investigates the impact of human dynamics on video sharing systems. users watching live streaming in the same wireless network share the same limited bandwidth of backbone connection to the internet, thus, they might want to cooperate with each other to obtain better video quality. these users form a wireless live-streaming social network. e ...201020227979
rice and perfluorocarbon liquid pads: comparison of fat suppression effects.with the chemical shift selective (chess) method, lingering fat signals remain because of the effects of nonuniformity in the magnetic field. one method to reduce this phenomenon is the use of pads filled with rice (rice pad), but the improvement in fat suppression effects with rice pads, as compared with conventional perfluorocarbon liquid pads, remains unclear.201020235744
[the role of gut instinct is an important subject].the role of gut instinct in general practice is an important topic. the reliance on gut instinct by experienced doctors is thought to be a form of intuitive decision-making which fits in with system 1 processes in the dual process model in higher cognition. special mention is made of the theories on intuitive decision-making by the famous dutch psychologist de groot, who, when investigating thought processes of chess masters more than half a century ago, developed a fundamental theory on intuiti ...201020298631
are participation rates sufficient to explain gender differences in chess performance? 201020335203
prevalence of eating disturbance and body image dissatisfaction in young girls: an examination of the variance across racial and socioeconomic groups.eating disorder research has predominantly focused on white adolescent females. more recent research suggests that eating disorders occur in various racial and age groups. the current study examines prevalence and stability of body image dissatisfaction and eating disturbance in 9- and 10-year-old girls and whether there is variability by racial group or socioeconomic status (ses). five hundred eighty-one girls completed the children's eating attitude test (cheat) and the body image measure (bim ...200920336184
impact of plant flowering phenology on the cost/benefit balance in a nursery pollination mutualism, with honest males and cheating females.this study documents the flowering phenology and its potential consequences on a nursery pollination mutualism between a dioecious plant, in which honest male plants, but not cheating females, allow the specific pollinator to reproduce within inflorescences. very few pollinators were found to emerge during plant anthesis, leading to a low (if any) potential benefit through pollen dispersal. this opens the question why male plants do not also cheat their pollinators. female plants flowered late i ...201020345818
zipf's law in the popularity distribution of chess openings.we perform a quantitative analysis of extensive chess databases and show that the frequencies of opening moves are distributed according to a power law with an exponent that increases linearly with the game depth, whereas the pooled distribution of all opening weights follows zipf's law with universal exponent. we propose a simple stochastic process that is able to capture the observed playing statistics and show that the zipf law arises from the self-similar nature of the game tree of chess. th ...200920366071
[physical fitness in relation to age and body build of young chess players].specificity of chess training promotes sedentary lifestyle and may reduce chess players participation in different physical activities. limited physical activity leads to decrease of physical fitness and may augment the risk of overweight and obesity. it is suggested that these athletes will characterize more frequently lower physical fitness and weight/height proportions disorders. the aim of the study was evaluation of physical fitness and its relationship with age and body build of athletes.200920384179
lineages that cheat death: surviving the squeeze on range size.evolutionary lineages differ greatly in their net diversification rates, implying differences in rates of extinction and speciation. lineages with a large average range size are commonly thought to have reduced extinction risk (although linking low extinction to high diversification has proved elusive). however, climate change cycles can dramatically reduce the geographic range size of even widespread species, and so most species may be periodically reduced to a few populations in small, isolate ...201020408877
perceptual learning and human expertise.we consider perceptual learning: experience-induced changes in the way perceivers extract information. often neglected in scientific accounts of learning and in instruction, perceptual learning is a fundamental contributor to human expertise and is crucial in domains where humans show remarkable levels of attainment, such as language, chess, music, and mathematics. in section 2, we give a brief history and discuss the relation of perceptual learning to other forms of learning. we consider in sec ...200820416846
do green products make us better people?consumer choices reflect not only price and quality preferences but also social and moral values, as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and environmentally friendly products. building on recent research on behavioral priming and moral regulation, we found that mere exposure to green products and the purchase of such products lead to markedly different behavioral consequences. in line with the halo associated with green consumerism, results showed that people act ...201020424089
fat suppression with short inversion time inversion-recovery and chemical-shift selective saturation: a dual stir-chess combination prepulse for turbo spin echo pulse sequences.to test a newly developed fat suppression magnetic resonance imaging (mri) prepulse that synergistically uses the principles of fat suppression via inversion recovery (stir) and spectral fat saturation (chess), relative to pure chess and stir. this new technique is termed dual fat suppression (dual-fs).201020432368
attachment, authenticity, and honesty: dispositional and experimentally induced security can reduce self- and other-deception.attachment security is hypothesized to promote authenticity and sincerity, or honesty, whereas insecurity is hypothesized to increase various forms of inauthenticity and dishonesty. the authors tested these ideas in 8 studies of dispositional and situational attachment insecurities and their influence on inauthenticity and dishonesty. the first 4 studies showed that authenticity is related to scoring low on the 2 dimensions of dispositional attachment insecurity-anxiety and avoidance-and that th ...201020438228
colloquium paper: adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence.blank-slate theories of human intelligence propose that reasoning is carried out by general-purpose operations applied uniformly across contents. an evolutionary approach implies a radically different model of human intelligence. the task demands of different adaptive problems select for functionally specialized problem-solving strategies, unleashing massive increases in problem-solving power for ancestrally recurrent adaptive problems. because exchange can evolve only if cooperators can detect ...201020445099
utilization of emergency room and hospitalization by chinese nursing home residents: a cross-sectional study.this study determined factors associated with increased use of emergency room (er) and hospitalization of chinese nursing home residents.201020511099
improved chess imaging with the use of rice pads: investigation in the neck, shoulder, and elbow.to investigate the feasibility of rice pads for improving nonuniform fat suppression in magnetic resonance imaging (mri) of the neck, shoulder, and elbow using the chemical shift selective (chess) technique.201020512907
blood brain barrier: the role of pyridoxine.the central nervous system (cns) is a closed system guarded by the blood brain barrier (bbb), with a complicated network of microvascular endothelial cells, astrocytes, and neurons engaged in selective neurophysiological mechanisms. exploration for a molecule such as a cofactor, hormone, enzyme, signaling molecule, or second messenger (collectively addressed as chess as we proceed), which has the ability to cross the bbb will be the goal of this hypothesis. the ratio of amino acids (aa) to neuro ...200720532028
study of change in brain activity due to blood flow while playing shogi (japanese chess).the study of brain activity has been studied with the use of various techniques like electroencephalography (eeg), magnetic resonance imaging (mri), positron emission topography (pet) and magneto-encephalography (meg). these techniques are unsuitable because of restriction of moving of subject's body while playing "shogi (japanese chess)" matching however, optical topography (ot) is possible to measure. therefore, brain activity is here studied with use of ot.201320552948
crime and punishment in a roaming cleanerfish.cheating is common in cooperative interactions, but its occurrence can be controlled by various means ranging from rewarding cooperators to active punishment of cheaters. punishment occurs in the mutualism involving the cleanerfish labroides dimidiatus and its reef fish clients. when l. dimidiatus cheats, by taking scales and mucus rather than ectoparasites, wronged clients either chase or withhold further visits to the dishonest cleaner, which leads to more cooperative future interactions. puni ...201020573626
child health ecological surveillance system (chess) for childhood obesity: a feasibility study.to assess the feasibility of employing an ecologically guided childhood obesity relevant surveillance system.201020609293
interactivity and presence of three ehealth interventions.a number of researchers have identified interactivity and presence as potentially important attributes of e-health applications, because they are believed to influence users to interact with systems in ways that increase commitment, learning, and other desirable responses. this paper reports on the development of brief scales to assess the two concepts, and on use of them with participants in six conditions of a large-scale trial of interventions for breast cancer patients. overall, the internet ...201020617154
the interplay of cognition and cooperation.cooperation often involves behaviours that reduce immediate payoffs for actors. delayed benefits have often been argued to pose problems for the evolution of cooperation because learning such contingencies may be difficult as partners may cheat in return. therefore, the ability to achieve stable cooperation has often been linked to a species' cognitive abilities, which is in turn linked to the evolution of increasingly complex central nervous systems. however, in their famous 1981 paper, axelrod ...201020679113
characterization of a new monoclonal antibody against pax5/basp in 1525 paraffin-embedded human and animal tissue samples.we describe the newly generated dak-pax5 monoclonal antibody raised against a fixation-resistant epitope of the human pax5/bsap molecule.201020697266
biogeography and potential exchanges among the atlantic equatorial belt cold-seep faunas.like hydrothermal vents along oceanic ridges, cold seeps are patchy and isolated ecosystems along continental margins, extending from bathyal to abyssal depths. the atlantic equatorial belt (aeb), from the gulf of mexico to the gulf of guinea, was one focus of the census of marine life chess (chemosynthetic ecosystems) program to study biogeography of seep and vent fauna. we present a review and analysis of collections from five seep regions along the aeb: the gulf of mexico where extensive faun ...201020700528
two rfid-based solutions to enhance inpatient medication safety.owing to the low cost and convenience of identifying an object without physical contact, radio frequency identification (rfid) systems provide innovative, promising and efficient applications in many domains. an rfid grouping protocol is a protocol that allows an off-line verifier to collect and verify the evidence of two or more tags simultaneously present. recently, huang and ku (j. med. syst, 2009) proposed an efficient grouping protocol to enhance medication safety for inpatients based on lo ...201120703553
fits at chess. 196520790779
students come to medical schools prepared to cheat: a multi-campus investigation.to investigate high school cheating experiences and attitudes towards academic misconduct of freshmen at all four medical schools in croatia, as a post-communist country in transition, with intention of raising awareness of academic (dis)honesty.201020797977
on classical and quantum error-correction in ciliate mate selection.ciliated protozoa sensing pheromones secreted from nonself mating types engage in preconjugal "courtship" dances and contacts. using simulated "social" trials, i recently showed the heterotrich ciliate, spirostomum ambiguum, can learn to advertise degrees of mating fitness to "suitors" and "rivals" when serially contracting or (ciliary) reversing at variable rates. conspicuous consumers signal higher quality reproductive status by playing "harder-to-get" via metabolically wasteful avoidance disp ...201020798831
ecology and biogeography of free-living nematodes associated with chemosynthetic environments in the deep sea: a review.here, insight is provided into the present knowledge on free-living nematodes associated with chemosynthetic environments in the deep sea. it was investigated if the same trends of high standing stock, low diversity, and the dominance of a specialized fauna, as observed for macro-invertebrates, are also present in the nematodes in both vents and seeps.201020805986
how to provide care for patients suffering from terminal non-oncological diseases: barriers to a palliative care approach.despite the seemingly evident pertinence of palliative care for patients suffering from non-oncological long-term life-threatening diseases, everyday clinical practice is far from that assumption. this study aims to explore palliative care service provision for these patients in spain. patients, family caregivers and healthcare professionals were interviewed, individually or in a group, aiming at identifying barriers in the provision of care and strategies to overcome them. ritchie and spencer's ...201020817747
body image and dieting attitudes among preadolescents.differences in body image and dieting concerns were assessed in preadolescent boys and girls across the body mass index (bmi) spectrum. the hypothesis was that girls would express more concern with body size, report more dieting, and receive more advice than boys.201020825692
a mixture of "cheats" and "co-operators" can enable maximal group benefit.is a group best off if everyone co-operates? theory often considers this to be so (e.g. the "conspiracy of doves"), this understanding underpinning social and economic policy. we observe, however, that after competition between "cheat" and "co-operator" strains of yeast, population fitness is maximized under co-existence. to address whether this might just be a peculiarity of our experimental system or a result with broader applicability, we assemble, benchmark, dissect, and test a systems model ...201020856906
"the king is dead": checkmating ion channels with tethered toxins.the quickest possible checkmate in the game of chess requires two moves using a pawn and the queen. metaphorically speaking, the pawn (a membrane tether) and the queen (a toxin) work together to checkmate an ion channel within a neuronal circuit. this strategy termed "tethered toxin" (t-toxin) is based on the use of genetically encoded peptide toxins that are anchored to the cell-membrane via a glycolipid or transmembrane tether. because of their mode of action at the cell surface, t-toxins act ...201020932988
children's eating attitudes test: validation in a sample of spanish schoolchildren.to validate the spanish version of the children's eating attitudes test (cheat).201120957702
pharmacoproteomics: a chess game on a protein field.the application of proteomics in the field of drug discovery development and the assessment of drug administration is known as pharmacoproteomics. as a branch of proteomics--perhaps the most promising and rapidly evolving field of the post-genomic era--pharmacoproteomics has inherited all the promises that pharmacogenomics has hitherto left unfulfilled. on the road to tailor-made drugs, whole protein profiles of healthy individuals have been progressively expanded, either qualitatively or quanti ...201020969973
chess and checkers for the blind. 194620982865
response time distributions in rapid chess: a large-scale decision making experiment.rapid chess provides an unparalleled laboratory to understand decision making in a natural environment. in a chess game, players choose consecutively around 40 moves in a finite time budget. the goodness of each choice can be determined quantitatively since current chess algorithms estimate precisely the value of a position. web-based chess produces vast amounts of data, millions of decisions per day, incommensurable with traditional psychological experiments. we generated a database of response ...201021031032
mechanisms and neural basis of object and pattern recognition: a study with chess experts.comparing experts with novices offers unique insights into the functioning of cognition, based on the maximization of individual differences. here we used this expertise approach to disentangle the mechanisms and neural basis behind two processes that contribute to everyday expertise: object and pattern recognition. we compared chess experts and novices performing chess-related and -unrelated (visual) search tasks. as expected, the superiority of experts was limited to the chess-specific task, a ...201021038986
web-based cancer communication and decision making systems: connecting patients, caregivers, and clinicians for improved health outcomes.over the cancer disease trajectory, from diagnosis and treatment to remission or end of life, patients and their families face difficult decisions. the provision of information and support when most relevant can optimize cancer decision making and coping. an interactive health communication system (ihcs) offers the potential to bridge the communication gaps that occur among patients, family, and clinicians and to empower each to actively engage in cancer care and shared decision making. this is ...201721041539
empirical correlates and expanded interpretation of the mmpi-2-rf restructured clinical scale 3 (cynicism).the recent release of the minnesota multiphasic personality inventory-2-restructured form (mmpi-2-rf) has received much attention from the clinical psychology community. particular concerns have focused on restructured clinical scale 3 (rc3; cynicism). this article briefly reviews the major criticisms and responses regarding the restructuring of clinical scale 3. the primary purpose of the article is to provide expanded interpretive perspectives on rc3 by correlating it with a selection of exter ...201121057135
assessment of cheating behavior in young school-age children: distinguishing normative behaviors from risk markers of externalizing psychopathology.the central goal of this longitudinal study was to develop a laboratory-based index of children's covert cheating behavior that distinguished normative rule violations from those that signal risk for antisocial behavior. participants (n = 215 children) were drawn from a community population and oversampled for externalizing behavior problems (ext). cheating behavior was measured using two resistance-to-temptation tasks and coded for extent of cheating, latency to cheat, and inappropriate positiv ...201021058125
mediating processes of two communication interventions for breast cancer patients.test whether three mediating processes of self-determination theory are involved in intervention effects on quality of life for breast cancer patients.201021081261
biomarkers: unrealized potential in sports doping analysis.the fight against doping in sport using analytical chemistry is a mature area with a history of approximately 100 years in horse racing and at least 40 years in human sport. over that period, the techniques used and the breadth of coverage have developed significantly. these improvements in the testing methods have been matched by the increased sophistication of the methods, drugs and therapies available to the cheat and, as a result, testing has been a reactive process constantly adapting to me ...200921083078
tetrahydrogestrinone analysis and designer steroids revisited.anabolic steroids are the main abused class of prohibited substances in doping control. these steroids are associated with enhancement of muscular mass and aggressiveness, resulting in increased performance. chromatography and ms have a key role among methods developed to detect anabolic steroids in doping control laboratories. however, the classical analytical approach fails in detection of the so-called 'designer steroids'. this review focuses on the rise of tetrahydrogestrinone, a drug that b ...200921083096
selection on signal–reward correlation: limits and opportunities to the evolution of deceit in turnera ulmifolia l.because pollinators are unable to directly assess the amount of rewards offered by flowers, they rely on the information provided by advertising floral traits. thus, having a lower intra-individual correlation between signal and reward (signal accuracy) than other plants in the population provides the opportunity to reduce investment in rewards and cheat pollinators. however, pollinators' cognitive capacities can impose a limit to the evolution of this plant cheating strategy if they can punish ...201021121090
physician assistant students' attitudes and behaviors toward cheating and academic integrity.to examine physician assistant (pa) students' attitudes towards academic integrity. three integrity factors were assessed: academic environment, personal cheating behaviors, and perceived seriousness of specific cheating behaviors.201021141417
magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the cervical cord in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.the objective of this study was to use magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mrs) to compare metabolite ratios in the cervical spinal cord of als patients to healthy controls. fourteen als patients and 16 controls were scanned using a 3t scanner. a rectangular voxel (8 × 5 × 35 mm) was placed along the main axis of the cord with the lower limit at the inferior aspect of the c2 vertebral body. mrs was performed with a point-resolved spectroscopy (press) sequence. water signals were suppressed using a ...201121143004
microcrystallography, high-pressure cryocooling and biosaxs at macchess.the macromolecular diffraction facility at the cornell high energy synchrotron source (macchess) is a national research resource supported by the national center for research resources of the us national institutes of health. macchess is pursuing several research initiatives designed to benefit both chess users and the wider structural biology community. three initiatives are presented in further detail: microcrystallography, which aims to improve the collection of diffraction data from crystals ...201121169696
postsurgical spinal magnetic resonance imaging with iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation.magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is the most popular follow-up study for patients who have undergone spinal surgery. however, the image quality often becomes poor because of artifacts from metal implants and/or from failed fat suppression, which obscure diagnosis. iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation (ideal) is a new fat suppression method that is less affected by inhomogeneity of the magnetic field. here, we compared postsurgical spinal mri w ...201121245684
it takes two-skilled recognition of objects engages lateral areas in both hemispheres.our object recognition abilities, a direct product of our experience with objects, are fine-tuned to perfection. left temporal and lateral areas along the dorsal, action related stream, as well as left infero-temporal areas along the ventral, object related stream are engaged in object recognition. here we show that expertise modulates the activity of dorsal areas in the recognition of man-made objects with clearly specified functions. expert chess players were faster than chess novices in ident ...201121283683
recall memory for visually presented chess positions.a series of three experiments replicated and extended earlier research reported by chase and simon (1973), de groot (1965), and charness (note 1). the first experiment demonstrated that the relationship between memory for chess positions and chess skill varies directly with the amount of chess-specific information in the stimulus display. the second experiment employed tachistoscopic displays to incrementally "build" tournament chess positions by meaningful or nonmeaningful chunks and demonstrat ...197621286979
predicting heart failure mortality in frail seniors: comparing the nyha functional classification with the resident assessment instrument (rai) 2.0.though the nyha functional classification is recommended in clinical settings, concerns have been raised about its reliability particularly among older patients. the rai 2.0 is a comprehensive assessment system specifically developed for frail seniors. we hypothesized that a prognostic model for heart failure (hf) developed from the rai 2.0 would be superior to the nyha classification. the purpose of this study was to determine whether a hf-specific prognostic model based on the rai 2.0 is super ...201221292334
dishonest deed, clear conscience: when cheating leads to moral disengagement and motivated forgetting.people routinely engage in dishonest acts without feeling guilty about their behavior. when and why does this occur? across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. using hypothetical scenarios (studies 1 and 2) and real tasks involving the opportunity to cheat (studies 3 and 4), the authors find that one's own dishonest behavior increased moral disengagement and ...201121307176
flexible decisions and chess expertise. 201121326618
temporal view of the costs and benefits of self-deception.researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. four experiments examine situations in which people go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to actively deceiving themselves. we find that those who exploit opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. this short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term c ...201121383150
community health environment scan survey (chess): a novel tool that captures the impact of the built environment on lifestyle factors.novel efforts and accompanying tools are needed to tackle the global burden of chronic disease. this paper presents an approach to describe the environments in which people live, work, and play. community health environment scan survey (chess) is an empirical assessment tool that measures the availability and accessibility, of healthy lifestyle options lifestyle options. chess reveals existing community assets as well as opportunities for change, shaping community intervention planning efforts b ...201121394246
are we more moral than we think? exploring the role of affect in moral behavior and moral forecasting.can people accurately predict how they will act in a moral dilemma? our research suggests that in some situations, they cannot, and that emotions play a pivotal role in this dissociation between behavior and forecasting. in the current experiment, individuals in a moral action condition cheated significantly less on a math task than participants in a forecasting condition predicted they themselves would cheat. furthermore, we found that participants in the action condition displayed significantl ...201121415242
the process and effect of supportive message expression and reception in online breast cancer support groups.to better understand the process and effect of social support exchanges within computer-mediated social support (cmss) groups for breast cancer patients, this study examines (1) the dynamic interplay between emotional support giving and receiving and (2) the relative effects of emotional support giving and receiving on patients' psychosocial health outcomes.201221416553
initial growth of lutetium(iii) bis-phthalocyanine on ag(111) surface.the adsorption of lutetium(iii) bis-phthalocyanine (lupc(2)) on ag(111) was investigated using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (stm/sts). a comprehensive study was carried out toward understanding the driving mechanism responsible for the formation of the first and second monolayers (mls). in both mls, the adsorbed molecules are found to exhibit different in-plane orientations arranged according to a "chess-board" like pattern. highly resolved stm images allowed an exact determina ...201121417330
incipient cognition solves the spatial reciprocity conundrum of cooperation.from the simplest living organisms to human societies, cooperation among individuals emerges as a paradox difficult to explain and describe mathematically, although very often observed in reality. evolutionary game theory offers an excellent toolbar to investigate this issue. spatial structure has been one of the first mechanisms promoting cooperation; however, alone it only opens a narrow window of viability.201121423580
temporal and geographic variation in the validity and internal consistency of the nursing home resident assessment minimum data set 2.0.the minimum data set (mds) for nursing home resident assessment has been required in all u.s. nursing homes since 1990 and has been universally computerized since 1998. initially intended to structure clinical care planning, uses of the mds expanded to include policy applications such as case-mix reimbursement, quality monitoring and research. the purpose of this paper is to summarize a series of analyses examining the internal consistency and predictive validity of the mds data as used in the " ...201121496257
moral credentialing and the rationalization of misconduct.recent studies lead to the paradoxical conclusion that the act of affirming one's egalitarian or pro-social values and virtues might subsequently facilitate prejudiced or self-serving behavior, an effect previously referred to as "moral credentialing." the present study extends this paradox to the domain of academic misconduct and investigates the hypothesis that such an effect might be limited by the extent to which misbehavior is rationalizable. using a paradigm designed to investigate deliber ...201121503267
online health consultation: examining uses of an interactive cancer communication tool by low-income women with breast cancer.to examine how psychosocial variables predicted use of an online health consultation service among low-income breast cancer patients and in turn how using this service affected these same psychosocial outcomes.201121530381
emotional eating scale for children and adolescents: psychometric characteristics in a spanish sample.the aims of this study were to validate the emotional eating scale version for children (ees-c) in a spanish population and study the differences in emotional eating among children with binge eating (be), overeating (oe), and no episodes of disordered eating (ned). the questionnaire was completed by 199 children aged 9 to 16 years. confirmatory factor analysis revealed five scales: eating in response to anger, anxiety, restlessness, helplessness, and depression. the ees-c showed good internal co ...201121534053
launching "the evolution of cooperation".this article describes three aspects of the author's early work on the evolution of the cooperation. first, it explains how the idea for a computer tournament for the iterated prisoner's dilemma was inspired by the artificial intelligence research on computer checkers and computer chess. second, it shows how the vulnerability of simple reciprocity of misunderstanding or misimplementation can be eliminated with the addition of some degree of generosity or contrition. third, it recounts the unusua ...201221540040
does playing blindfold chess reduce the quality of game: comments on chabris and hearst (2003).blindfold chess is a special type of chess game where both the board and pieces are not visible to its players. this paper aims to determine whether the quality of the game played blindfolded is lower than when played under normal conditions. the best chess program was used to analyze games played by the world's top grandmasters under both conditions. we have analyzed the monaco 1993-1998 data set introduced by chabris and hearst (2003). the results showed that although a larger number of mistak ...201021564205
they do what they are told to do: the influence of instruction on (chess) expert perception-commentary on linhares and brum (2007).linhares and brum (2007) argue that they provide evidence for analogy as the main principle behind experts' acquisition of perceptual knowledge. however, the methodology they used-asking players to pair positions using abstract similarity-raises the possibility that the task reflects more the effect of directional instructions than the principles underlying the acquisition of knowledge. here we replicate and extend linhares and brum's experiment and show that the matching task they used is inade ...200921585484
specialization effect and its influence on memory and problem solving in expert chess players.expert chess players, specialized in different openings, recalled positions and solved problems within and outside their area of specialization. while their general expertise was at a similar level, players performed better with stimuli from their area of specialization. the effect of specialization on both recall and problem solving was strong enough to override general expertise-players remembering positions and solving problems from their area of specialization performed at around the level o ...200921585497
chemical entity semantic specification: knowledge representation for efficient semantic cheminformatics and facile data integration.abstract: background: over the past several centuries, chemistry has permeated virtually every facet of human lifestyle, enriching fields as diverse as medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, warfare, and electronics, among numerous others. unfortunately, application-specific, incompatible chemical information formats and representation strategies have emerged as a result of such diverse adoption of chemistry. although a number of efforts have been dedicated to unifying the computational represent ...201121595881
resolving the iterated prisoner's dilemma: theory and reality.pairs of unrelated individuals face a prisoner's dilemma if cooperation is the best mutual outcome, but each player does best to defect regardless of his partner's behaviour. although mutual defection is the only evolutionarily stable strategy in one-shot games, cooperative solutions based on reciprocity can emerge in iterated games. among the most prominent theoretical solutions are the so-called bookkeeping strategies, such as tit-for-tat, where individuals copy their partner's behaviour in th ...201121599777
understanding our understanding of strategic scenarios: what role do chunks play?there is a crucial debate concerning the nature of chess chunks: one current possibility states that chunks are built by encoding particular combinations of pieces-on-squares (poss), and that chunks are formed mostly by "close" pieces (in a "euclidean" sense). a complementary hypothesis is that chunks are encoded by abstract, semantic information. this article extends recent experiments and shows that chess players are able to perceive strong similarity between very different positions if the pi ...200721635325
the neural organization of perception in chess experts.the human visual system responds to expertise, and it has been suggested that regions that process faces also process other objects of expertise including chess boards by experts. we tested whether chess and face processing overlap in brain activity using fmri. chess experts and novices exhibited face selective areas, but these regions showed no selectivity to chess configurations relative to other stimuli. we next compared neural responses to chess and to scrambled chess displays to isolate are ...201121635936
testing the accuracy of the retrospective recall method used in expertise research.expertise typically develops slowly over years, and controlled experiments to study its development may be impractical. researchers often use a correlational, retrospective recall method in which participants recall career data, sometimes over many years before. however, recall accuracy is uncertain. the present study investigated the accuracy of recalled career data for up to 38 years, in over 600 international chess players. participants' estimates of their entry year into international chess, ...201121671138
sociosexual orientation, commitment, and infidelity: a mediation analysis.individuals with an unrestricted sociosexual orientation (so) are less committed to their romantic relationships and more likely to engage in infidelity. furthermore, commitment is negatively associated with tendencies to cheat. however, no previous research has examined the possible mediating role of commitment in the relationship between so and infidelity. the current study examined whether commitment mediated the relationship between so and willingness to engage in three types of cheating beh ...201121675178
exponential growth combined with exponential decline explains lifetime performance evolution in individual and human species.the physiological parameters characterizing human capacities (the ability to move, reproduce or perform tasks) evolve with ageing: performance is limited at birth, increases to a maximum and then decreases back to zero at the day of death. physical and intellectual skills follow such a pattern. here, we investigate the development of sport and chess performances during the lifetime at two different scales: the individual athletes' careers and the world record by age class in 25 olympic sports ev ...201121695422
fat-suppressed mr images of both hands obtained using chess can be improved by rice pads.when chemical shift selective (chess) imaging is used with magnetic resonance imaging (mri) for simultaneous imaging of both hands for the evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis, the fat suppression effect is poor. we investigated whether these fat-suppressed images using chess could be improved with the use of rice pads. t1-weighted images were obtained with chess and the same imaging parameters were used with and without rice pads on the coronal plane of both hands in 10 healthy volunteers. patien ...201221708440
optimizing ehealth breast cancer interventions: which types of ehealth services are effective?little is known about the effective elements of interactive cancer communication systems (iccss). a randomized trial explored which types of services of a multifaceted iccs benefited patients and the nature of the benefit. women with breast cancer (n=450) were randomized to different types of iccs services or to a control condition that provided internet access. the comprehensive health enhancement support system (chess), served as the iccs. iccs services providing information and support, but n ...201121709810
the body image, weight satisfaction, and eating disorder tendency of school children: the 2-year follow-up study.this 2-year follow-up study was conducted to enhance our understanding of changes and rates of disturbed eating attitudes/behaviors, weight satisfaction, and prevalence of obesity in elementary school students between the ages of 10 and 12 years.201121730220
bad to the bone: facial structure predicts unethical behaviour.researchers spanning many scientific domains, including primatology, evolutionary biology and psychology, have sought to establish an evolutionary basis for morality. while researchers have identified social and cognitive adaptations that support ethical behaviour, a consensus has emerged that genetically determined physical traits are not reliable signals of unethical intentions or actions. challenging this view, we show that genetically determined physical traits can serve as reliable predicto ...201221733897
many faces of expertise: fusiform face area in chess experts and novices.the fusiform face area (ffa) is involved in face perception to such an extent that some claim it is a brain module for faces exclusively. the other possibility is that ffa is modulated by experience in individuation in any visual domain, not only faces. here we test this latter ffa expertise hypothesis using the game of chess as a domain of investigation. we exploited the characteristic of chess, which features multiple objects forming meaningful spatial relations. in three experiments, we show ...201121752997
fibrosis, regeneration, and aging: playing chess with evolution. 201121757767
computer aided diagnostic tools aim to empower rather than replace pathologists: lessons learned from computational chess. 201121773056
combination of two fat saturation pulses improves detectability of glucose signals in carbon-13 mr spectroscopy.in order to improve the fat suppression performance of in vivo (13)c-mrs operating at 3.0 tesla, a phantom model study was conducted using a combination of two fat suppression techniques; a set of pulses for frequency (chemical shift) selective suppression (chess), and spatial saturation (sat). by optimizing the slab thickness for sat and the irradiation bandwidth for chess, the signals of the -(13)ch(3) peak at 49 ppm and the -(13)ch(2)- peak at 26 ppm simulating fat components were suppressed ...201121785260
chess masters show a hallmark of face processing with chess.face processing has several distinctive hallmarks that researchers have attributed either to face-specific mechanisms or to extensive experience distinguishing faces. here, we examined the face-processing hallmark of selective attention failure--as indexed by the congruency effect in the composite paradigm--in a domain of extreme expertise: chess. among 27 experts, we found that the congruency effect was equally strong with chessboards and faces. further, comparing these experts with recreationa ...201221787101
internet-based interactive support for cancer patients: are integrated systems better?to compare the benefits of the internet generally versus a focused system of services, 257 breast cancer patients were randomly assigned to a control group, access to the internet with links to high-quality breast cancer sites, or access to an ehealth system (comprehensive health enhancement support system, chess) that integrated information, support, and decision and analysis tools. the intervention lasted 5 months, and self-report data on quality of life, health-care competence, and social sup ...200821804645
comparative analysis of numerical integration schemes of density equation for a computational model of bone remodelling.in this study, a computational model of bone remodelling problem as proposed by weinans et al. (1992) is described and solved by other temporal integration techniques different from the euler scheme. this model considers three types of numerical integration schemes of the evolution of the material density during the remodelling: euler, heun and runge-kutta methods. also the strain and the density field are obtained inside each element, at gauss points or at the nodes of the mesh. a square plate ...201221806414
negotiating control: patients' experiences of unsuccessful weight-loss surgery.interviews were carried out with 10 men and women who had undergone weight-loss surgery (wls) up to 10 years ago and felt that it had failed. seven had had a further successful procedure. data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. weight regain following surgery was explained in terms of either the mechanics of the operation or with participants describing ways to 'cheat' as food continued to be used for emotional regulation. everyone spoke of how surgery neglected their ...201121827354
deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystem research during the census of marine life decade and beyond: a proposed deep-ocean road map.the chess project of the census of marine life (2002-2010) helped foster internationally-coordinated studies worldwide focusing on exploration for, and characterization of new deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystem sites. this work has advanced our understanding of the nature and factors controlling the biogeography and biodiversity of these ecosystems in four geographic locations: the atlantic equatorial belt (aeb), the new zealand region, the arctic and antarctic and the se pacific off chile. in th ...201121829722
revising superior planning performance in chess players: the impact of time restriction and motivation aspects.in a previous study (unterrainer, kaller, halsband, & rahm, 2006), chess players outperformed non-chess players in the tower of london planning task but exhibited disproportionately longer processing times. this pattern of results raises the question of whether chess players' planning capabilities are superior or whether the results reflect differences in the speed-accuracy trade-off between the groups, possibly attributable to sports motivation. the present study was designed to disambiguate th ...201121834406
how to catch a cheat: an editor's perspective on a new age of plagiarism and data manipulation. 201121840884
prolonged-release melatonin for insomnia - an open-label long-term study of efficacy, safety, and withdrawal.prolonged-release melatonin (prm) 2 mg is indicated for insomnia in patients aged 55 years and older. a recent double-blind placebo-controlled study demonstrated 6-month efficacy and safety of prm in insomnia patients aged 18-80 and lack of withdrawal and rebound symptoms upon discontinuation.201121845053
Optimal dimensionality reduction of complex dynamics: the chess game as diffusion on a free-energy landscape.Dimensionality reduction is ubiquitous in the analysis of complex dynamics. The conventional dimensionality reduction techniques, however, focus on reproducing the underlying configuration space, rather than the dynamics itself. The constructed low-dimensional space does not provide a complete and accurate description of the dynamics. Here I describe how to perform dimensionality reduction while preserving the essential properties of the dynamics. The approach is illustrated by analyzing the che ...201121867141
parallel game-tree search.the design issues affecting a parallel implementation of the alpha-beta search algorithm are discussed with emphasis on a tree decomposition scheme that is intended for use on well ordered trees. in particular, the principal variation splitting method has been implemented, and experimental results are presented which show how such refinements as progressive deepening, narrow window searching, and the use of memory tables affect the performance of multiprocessor based chess playing programs. when ...198521869282
chess & schizophrenia: murphy v mr endon, beckett v bion.this paper reconvenes samuel beckett's psychotherapy with wilfred bion during 1934-1936 during which time beckett's conceived and began writing this second novel, murphy. based on beckett's visits to the bethlem & maudsley hospital and his observation of the male nurses, the climax of murphy is a chess match between mr endon (a male schizophrenic patient) and murphy (a male psychiatric nurse). the precise notation of the endon v murphy chess match tells us that the beckett intended it to be an e ...201121870181
the kras p.g13d mutation in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: a cheat in the orchestra of predictive biomarkers? 201121872595
"chaplain, do you play chess?"--the privilege of being beaten. 201721928500
predictors and effects of training on an online health education and support system for women with breast cancer.many breast cancer patients currently turn to internet-based education and support to help them cope with their illness. this study explores the role of training in influencing how patients use a particular interactive cancer communication system (iccs) over time and also examines what pre-test characteristics predict which people are most likely to opt in or out of training in the first place. with use of pre-test survey and unobtrusive individual records of iccs system use data (n = 216), nonp ...201021949474
expertise in complex decision making: the role of search in chess 70 years after de groot.one of the most influential studies in all expertise research is de groot's (1946) study of chess players, which suggested that pattern recognition, rather than search, was the key determinant of expertise. many changes have occurred in the chess world since de groot's study, leading some authors to argue that the cognitive mechanisms underlying expertise have also changed. we decided to replicate de groot's study to empirically test these claims and to examine whether the trends in the data hav ...201121981829
virus manipulation of cell cycle.viruses depend on host cell resources for replication and access to those resources may be limited to a particular phase of the cell cycle. thus manipulation of cell cycle is a commonly employed strategy of viruses for achieving a favorable cellular environment. for example, viruses capable of infecting nondividing cells induce s phase in order to activate the host dna replication machinery and provide the nucleotide triphosphates necessary for viral dna replication (flemington in j virol 75:447 ...201221986922
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