” coupling (to spatially distant simultaneous states). In this contribution we show that globally stable behavior of coupled map lattices is facilitated by causal coupling, thus indicating a surprising relationship between stability and causality. The influence of causal versus non-causal coupling

Abstract. Renormalization group (RG) methods are an established strategy to explain how it is possible that microscopically different systems exhibit virtually the same macro behavior when undergoing phase-transitions. I argue – in agreement with Robert Batterman – that RG explanations are non-causal

given point in time due to the acquisition of some other information at a different time. Retroactive interference between cues of the same outcome (IbC hereafter) occurs when the behavioral expression of an association between a cue and an outcome (e.g., A? 1) is reduced due to the later

are particular to each type. We present the notion of function transfer as the main underlying process that accounts for all psychological interactions. Key words: pavlovian conditioning, reinforcement, S-S relations, stimulus equivalence, function transfer, human causal learning, complex human behavior Resumen

The paper shows that characterizing the causal relationship between significant events is an important but non-trivial aspect for understanding the behavior of distributed programs. An introduction to the notion of causality and its relation to logical time is given; some fundamental results

. We find that the exact equation of motion does not exhibit runaway solutions or non-causal behavior, when the cut-off is larger than half of the classical radius of the electron. The calculation of the self-force acting on a charged particle is a long outstanding problem in electrodynamics since

on chip and in electronic package assemblies. In some cases small errors in the model development lead to non-causal behavior that does not accurately represent the electrical response and may lead to a lack of convergence in simulations that utilize these models. The approach is based on Hilbert

The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive

there is a relationship between urban form and modal choice, whether this relationship exists when controlling for non-urban form factors, whether this relationship is linear or nonlinear, and whether a stronger relationship exists between modal choice and urban form when they are measured at both trip ends

We define a class of function-free rule-based production system (PS) programs that exhibit non-deterministic and/or causal behavior. We develop a fixpoint semantics and an equivalent declarative semantics for these programs. The criterion to recognize the class of non-deterministic causal (NDC) PS