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Deceptionism about lying is the view that all lies are intended to deceive. This view sits uneasily with some cases that seem to involve lies not intended to deceive. We call these lies bald-faced because the liar lies while believing that the hearer knows that they are lying. The most recent deceptionist argument put forward by Rudnicki and Odrowąż-Sypniewska (this journal) defends the view that all genuine bald-faced lies are intended to deceive some of their hearers. I argue that this argument is interesting but problematic: its premises do not support the view that all bald-faced lies are intended to deceive but rather only that some people who bald-faced lie to institutions or large audiences intend to deceive someone. Also, genuine bald-faced lies addressed at institutions are intended to (non-deceptively) manipulate institutions rather than deceive anyone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We conducted two experiments to determine whether common folk think that so-called tell-tale sign bald-faced lies are intended to deceive—since they have not been tested before. These lies involve tell-tale signs (e.g. blushing) that show that the speaker is lying. Our study was designed to avoid problems earlier studies raise (these studies focus on a kind of bald-faced lie in which supposedly everyone knows that what the speaker says is false). Our main hypothesis was that the participants will think that the protagonists from our examples lied without intending to deceive, and the results of our surveys confirmed this hypothesis: most of our participants rated tell-tale sign lies as lies not intended to deceive. Therefore, our analysis suggests that common folk think that some lies are not intended to deceive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I examine a kind of delusion in which the patients judge that their occurrent thoughts are false and try to abandon them precisely because they are false, but fail to do so. I call this delusion transparent, since it is transparent to the sufferer that their thought is false. In explaining this phenomenon, I defend a particular two-factor theory of delusion that takes the proper integration of relevant reasoning processes as vital for thought-evaluation. On this proposal, which is a refinement of Gerrans's (2014) account of delusion as unsupervised by decontextualized processing, I can have all my reasoning processes working reliably and thus judge that my delusion is false but, if I cannot use their outputs when revising the thought itself, the delusion will persist. I also sketch how this framework explains some interesting cases of failed belief-revision in the general population in which people judge that ~p but nonetheless continue to believe that p. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the joint entropy maximization algorithm constrained by the variable leaky factor (JEM-VL) aiming at mitigating the feedback filter (FBF) mismatch effects characterizing the operation of the decision feedback equalizer which, at the start of adaptation, swaps positions of feedforward and feedback filters so that the latter acts as a linear all-pole whitener of the received signal. The FBF mismatch is a result of disparity between the FBF setup achieved in the blind mode by observing channel outputs and an excepted FBF setup in the tracking mode which is driven by detected data symbols. Depending on the given signal complexity and inter-symbol interference severity, the FBF filter mismatch is typically manifested by the equalizer convergence instability or even the catastrophic error propagation effects arising at the time of the equalizer structure-criterion switching from the blind to the tracking operation mode. The constraint of superfluous coefficients of the FBF filter by means of the JEM-VL algorithm eliminates the equalizer convergence instability at the time of its switching and, consequently, increases equalization successfulness. The efficiency of the JEM-VL algorithm is verified by simulations using the 64-QAM signal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Microstructure development and fracture toughness of Si3N4 composites were studied in the presence of seeds and Al2O3 + Y2O3 as sintering aids. The elongated β-Si3N4 seeds were introduced into two different α-Si3N4 matrix powders; one was the ultra fine powder matrix and the other was the coarse powder matrix. The amount of seeds varied from 0 to 6 wt%. The grain growth inhibition and the mechanism of toughening were discussed and correlated with microstructure. The maximum fracture toughness of 9.0 MPa m1/2 was obtained for ultra fine powder with 5 wt% seeds hot pressed at 1,700 °C for 6 h. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The position of a division site in the rod-shaped bacterium E. coli is partially determined by pole-to-pole oscillations of the Min-family of proteins—MinC, MinD, and MinE. Furthermore, experiments reveal that MinD protein polymerizes on the membrane into filaments and that MinE protein forms an oscillating ring. We assume that MinD filaments are single-stranded (two-stranded hypothesis has been already tested in our previous paper [20]). In the filamentous cells zebra-striped MinD oscillation pattern, fully formed oscillating MinE rings, and weakly fluorescent, rapidly moving MinE rings are experimentally observed. All these phenomena are reproduced by our three-dimensional off-lattice stochastic reaction-diffusion model. An algorithm with adaptive time steps is implemented in order to speed up the time-consuming process of tracking each protein in the computer simulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]