scholarly journals Negative Number

2020 ◽  
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Dana Ganor-Stern

Past research has shown that numbers are associated with order in time such that performance in a numerical comparison task is enhanced when number pairs appear in ascending order, when the larger number follows the smaller one. This was found in the past for the integers 1–9 ( Ben-Meir, Ganor-Stern, & Tzelgov, 2013 ; Müller & Schwarz, 2008 ). In the present study we explored whether the advantage for processing numbers in ascending order exists also for fractions and negative numbers. The results demonstrate this advantage for fraction pairs and for integer-fraction pairs. However, the opposite advantage for descending order was found for negative numbers and for positive-negative number pairs. These findings are interpreted in the context of embodied cognition approaches and current theories on the mental representation of fractions and negative numbers.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 3068-3083 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Franklin Waddell

Online comments hold the potential to promote positive deliberative outcomes, although past work has also shown that comments can have undesired effects when the sentiment of the crowd turns negative. Does the presence of comments possibly bolster or interfere with the reception and traditional functions of news media? Informed by the Modality-Agency-Interactivity-Navigability (MAIN) model, an online experiment tested the effect of reader comments (positive vs negative), number of “re-tweets” and “likes” (low vs high), and coverage frequency (infrequent vs frequent) on news credibility and issue importance. Negative reader comments (relative to positive comments) decreased message credibility and issue importance through the sequential indirect pathway of bandwagon perceptions, attention, and construct accessibility. Study results suggest that the traditional functions of news media may be hindered by audience incivility.


Author(s):  
Kristen P. Blair ◽  
Miriam Rosenberg-Lee ◽  
Jessica M. Tsang ◽  
Daniel L. Schwartz ◽  
Vinod Menon

1948 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Verblunsky

If H(ξ, η) is a harmonic function which is defined and positive in η > 0, then there is a non-negative number D and a bounded non-decreasing function G(x) such that(For a proof, see Loomis and Widder, Duke Math. J. 9 (1942), 643–5.) If we writewhere λ > 1, then the equationdefines a harmonic function h which is positive in υ > 0. Hence there is a non-negative number d and a bounded non-decreasing function g(x) such thatThe problem of finding the connexion between the functions G(x) and g(x) has been mentioned by Loomis (Trans. American Math. Soc. 53 (1943), 239–50, 244).


Author(s):  
Hao Jianjun ◽  
Wang Youli ◽  
Wang Xiaohui

Tolerance with upper deviation less than lower deviation is defined as virtual tolerance; the dimension between two extreme values required with tolerance (virtual tolerance) is expressed by a set. The changed characteristics of the set range when the tolerance value is continuously reduced from positive to negative are explored. The nature of virtual tolerance is that the absolute value of virtual tolerance is the error compensation amount, and the dimension between two extreme values is the error compensation range. On the basis of the concept of positive and negative number, the theory of dimensional homogeneity, the existing conditions of the general formula of the dimensional chain, the accuracy of the calculation results of tolerance, and so on, the concept of virtual tolerance and its relationship of unity of opposites with tolerance are proposed. Based on the concept of virtual tolerance, analysis and calculation processes of various assembly dimensional chains are unified, and general formulation of calculating the range of false waste is established, and the method of determining the range of false waste by using probabilistic method in machining process is deduced.


1992 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-74 ◽  
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D Loeb
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1975 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Jean J. Pedersen ◽  
Frank O. Armbruster

We think it’s important that you have some background on how this article came to be written. One of the authors sometimes plays a game he invented, called “hats,” in which he puts on a funny hat and converts base-ten numerals into another base representation. For example, he puts on a beanie and calls for anyone to say a favorite number. Someone says “six.” He goes to the chalkboard and writes “110,” The object of the game is for the students to figure out what he is doing, Someone who figures it out says, “Gotcha!” And then that person gets to wear the hat until someone else says, “Gotcha!” (In case you haven’t “got it” yet, the beanie hat converts numbers to the binary representation.) Several hats are used in the course of play, and each represents a different number base, but it’s always a natural number base greater than one. Recently we began to wonder if perhaps you can have a negative number base system in which the base is not an integer. And if you can, what will the numerals look like?


1912 ◽  
Vol 6 (99) ◽  
pp. 339
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E. W. P. Temperley
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Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 329 (2) ◽  
pp. 185 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOÃO A.M. CARMO ◽  
VIVIANE R. SCALON ◽  
MARIA F. CALIÓ ◽  
ANDRÉ O. SIMÕES

Psyllocarpus schwackei was described by Schumann (1898: 18), for which he cited a single collection, “in Brasiliae civitate Minas Geraes, locis arenosis in Serra do Cipo: Schwacke n, 8089, floret Aprili”. In a taxonomic revision of the genus, Kirkbride (1979) stated that the material studied by Schumann at the Botanical Museum in Berlin had been destroyed during the Second World War (Hiepko 1987), and that he was unable to locate any duplicates of this collection. He consulted a photograph of the specimen available in the Field Museum of Natural History type photograph series, negative number 896. Therefore, based upon the original description of the species, the photograph he analysed, and his experience at the type locality, the Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais state, Kirkbride (1979) selected as neotype the collection “Serra do Cipó, elev. ca. 1125 m, Anderson et al. 36254 (neotype US; isoneotypes NY, UB)”.


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