Lorenzo Magnani

Ping Li

The volume is based on papers presented at the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine held in China in 2006. The presentations explore how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. The contributions to the book are written by researchers active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology. They include the subject area’s most recent results and achievements.

Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine

Huanan Chen

Peiyao Zhang

In January 2021, as Ryan Cohen, the founder of Chewy, the largest pet e-commerce company in the United States, joined the board of directors of GME, news was announced that GME would be strategically transformed to become the Amazon of the gaming industry. After this announcement, many shareholders on the WallStreetBets (WSB) forum took the long position of GME stocks and call options, causing their prices to soar in a short period of time. However, considering the fundamentals of GME, financial institutions in Wall Street thought the stock price of GME deviated from its real value too much, and thereby sold call options on GME stocks. However, due to the group action of retail long investors, the stock price of GME didn't decline as expected by short institutions, which resulted in the short squeeze and gamma squeeze, and short institutions experienced huge losses in a short period of time. This so-called "GameStop short-squeeze event" aroused widespread attention and discussion among industry and academy. What is the role of short squeeze and gamma squeeze in this event? How should option sellers control their risk? Should the organized short squeeze by retail investors be regulated? This case will discuss these issues.

How Should Call Option Sellers Manage Their Risk?

Short Squeeze of GME

Mineharu Nakayama

Reiko Mazuka

Yasuhiro Shirai

A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes and brain mechanisms underlying language. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. Japanese, a language of growing interest to linguists, differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, its lexicon, and its written and spoken forms - features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and processing of language. This handbook, the second in a three-volume series on East Asian psycholinguistics, presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Japanese. With contributions by over fifty leading scholars, it covers topics in first and second language acquisition, language processing and reading, language disorders in children and adults, and the relationships between language, brain, culture, and cognition. It will be invaluable to all scholars and students interested in the Japanese language, as well as cognitive psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists.

The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume 2, Japanese

Roberto Esposito

Wenbin Guo 

Fengyu Zhang

Maorong Hu

Emotional Disturbance and Brain Imaging in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect

Honghai Liu

Huijun Gao

Handbook of Vehicle Suspension Control Systems surveys the state-of-art in advanced suspension control theory and applications, with an overview of intelligent vehicle active suspension adaptive control systems, and robust active control of an integrated suspension system, amongst many others.

Handbook of Vehicle Suspension Control Systems

The book addresses a number of recent topics at the crossroad of philosophy and cognitive science, taking advantage of both the western and the eastern perspectives and conceptions that emerged and were discussed at the PCS2011 Conference recently held in Guangzhou. The ever growing cultural exchange between academics and intellectual belonging to different cultures is reverberated by the juxtaposition of papers, which aim at investigating new facets of crucial problems in philosophy: the role of models in science and the fictional approach; chance seeking dynamics and how affordances work; abductive cognition; visualization in science; the cognitive structure of scientific theories; scientific representation; mathematical representation in science; model-based reasoning; analogical reasoning; moral cognition; cognitive niches and evolution.

Western & Eastern Studies

Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Have you ever wanted to know why you are here on earth? Do you sense that you have a higher purpose, a special calling, but have no idea what it is or how to find it? Do you try to convince yourself and others that you are happy and fulfilled? Do you wish to have abundance flow to your life effortlessly without working so hard? Do you know something is missing in your life but can't identify what that is? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, help has arrived! In Awakening you'll discover how to tap into your inner wisdom and the infinite universe to gain valuable insights and knowledge about who you really are at all levels--physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. The practical exercises and guidance in every chapter will help you to connect with your divine essence and align your beliefs, perceptions, intentions, feelings, choices, actions, words, and your personalities with this inner truth so that you can transform your reality and manifest all that you truly desire in life, pure love, unlimited abundance, deep fulfillment...and much more.

Fulfilling your soul's purpose on earth

AWAKENING

Chung-Chun Yang

Pei-Chu Hu

For a given meromorphic function I(z) and an arbitrary value a, Nevanlinna's value distribution theory, which can be derived from the well known Poisson-Jensen for mula, deals with relationships between the growth of the function and quantitative estimations of the roots of the equation: 1 (z) - a = O. In the 1920s as an application of the celebrated Nevanlinna's value distribution theory of meromorphic functions, R. Nevanlinna [188] himself proved that for two nonconstant meromorphic func tions I, 9 and five distinctive values ai (i = 1,2,3,4,5) in the extended plane, if 1 1- (ai) = g-l(ai) 1M (ignoring multiplicities) for i = 1,2,3,4,5, then 1 = g. Fur 1 thermore, if 1- (ai) = g-l(ai) CM (counting multiplicities) for i = 1,2,3 and 4, then 1 = L(g), where L denotes a suitable Mobius transformation. Then in the 19708, F. Gross and C. C. Yang started to study the similar but more general questions of two functions that share sets of values. For instance, they proved that if 1 and 9 are two nonconstant entire functions and 8 , 82 and 83 are three distinctive finite sets such 1 1 that 1- (8 ) = g-1(8 ) CM for i = 1,2,3, then 1 = g.

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