An artificial economy based on reinforcement learning and agent based modeling

In this paper, we employ techniques from artificial intelligence such as reinforcement learning and agent based modeling as building blocks of a computational model for an economy based on conventions. First we model the interaction among firms in the private sector. These firms behave in an information environment based on conventions, meaning that a firm is likely to behave as its neighbors if it observes that their actions lead to a good pay off. On the other hand, we propose the use of reinforcement learning as a computational model for the role of the government in the economy, as the agent that determines the fiscal policy, and whose objective is to maximize the growth of the economy. We present the implementation of a simulator of the proposed model based on SWARM, that employs the SARSA(λ) algorithm combined with a multilayer perceptron as the function approximation for the action value function.

Adaptaci?? de l'escala verbal del Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) al catal??. 'Adaptaci??n de la escala verbal del Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) al catal??n'

Adaptar los tests de inteligencia WISC para poder evaluar as?? al individuo con respecto al grupo seg??n las habilidades valoradas en cada cultura. Reajustar el WISC a la cultura catalana; hasta ahora los tests eran castellanos y hace falta adaptarlos al entorno para que sean realmente efectivos. 413 ni??os de 16 escuelas escogidas al azar. Edad entre 6 y 12 a??os. An??lisis exhaustivo de la prueba de Wechsler y de la adaptaci??n TEA, revisi??n cr??tica y adaptaci??n catalana. Prueba piloto para cotejar la eficiencia. Correcci??n de la WISC creada a partir de las divergencias estad??sticas entre el standard y los resultados de la prueba piloto. Encuestas, Test de WISC original y adaptado, muestreo. Tablas, an??lisis estad??sticos de correlaci??n, an??lisis factorial, fiabilidad y baremos de tipificaci??n. Se ha conseguido obtener un test WISC mucho m??s adaptado a la realidad de Catalunya gracias a la eliminaci??n de errores y dificultades que generaban las versiones Wechsler y TEA anteriores.

Emotional intelligence and enterprise handbook : tools and techniques to help students succeed in life and work.

Manual diseñado para que profesores de enseñanza secundaria ayuden y apoyen el desarrollo de la inteligencia emocional, que abarca la conciencia y la responsabilidad, la actitud positiva y apreciativa, la empatía y el respeto, la motivación y la persistencia. Las actividades para nueve sesiones desarrollan la inteligencia con respecto a uno mismo, otras personas, el empleo y el futuro.

Practical intelligence : the art and science of common sense.

El autor se basa en las inteligencias múltiples para explicar cómo la inteligencia práctica es una habilidad clave de la vida y ofrece una estructura conceptual para definir y describir el sentido común. Expone cómo las personas con inteligencia práctica pueden emplear los conocimientos lingüísticos para adoptar hábitos de lenguaje semánticamente buenos, tomar decisiones mejores, pensar en términos de opciones y posibilidades, aceptar la ambigüedad y la complejidad, articular problemas con claridad y trabajar a través de soluciones. Muestra que las habilidades de inteligencia práctica se pueden mejorar con la educación y el entrenamiento adecuado y desafía a todos para mejorar sus destrezas y ayudar a otros a desarrollar sus propias capacidades de inteligencia práctica.

Análisis evolutivo de la coordinación visomotora y sus relaciones con inteligencia, estilo cognitivo y atención = Developmental analysis of visualmotor coordination and its relationship to intelligence, cognitive style and attention.

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Les wikis : espaces de l' intelligence collective.

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Brief Emotional Intelligence Inventory for Senior Citizens (EQ-i-M20)

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The effect of relational training on intelligence quotient : a case study

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The Wechsler-Bellevue and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children as predictors of academic achievement for a severely hearing and speech impaired population

This paper reviews a study to determine the applicabilty of the Wechsler-Bellevue and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for severely hearing impaired children.

A critical analysis of scores, accumulated from the presentation of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale to adolescent and adult deafened individuals

This paper discusses the validity of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence test for hearing impaired adolescents and adults.

The relation between Wechsler Performance Quotients and quotients on the Snijders-Oomen Non-Verbal Intelligence Scale

This paper examines the relationship between results of the Wechsler-Bellevue Performance Test of Intelligence and the Snijders-Oomen Non-Verbal Intelligence Scale (SONS) as given to hearing-impaired students at Central Institute for the Deaf.

Did farming arise from a misapplication of social intelligence?

The origins of farming is the defining event of human history-the one turning point that has resulted in modern humans having a quite different type of lifestyle and cognition to all other animals and past types of humans. With the economic basis provided by farming, human individuals and societies have developed types of material culture that greatly augment powers of memory and computation, extending the human mental capacity far beyond that which the brain alone can provide. Archaeologists have long debated and discussed why people began living in settled communities and became dependent on cultivated plants and animals, which soon evolved into domesticated forms. One of the most intriguing explanations was proposed more than 20 years ago not by an archaeologist but by a psychologist: Nicholas Humphrey suggested that farming arose from the 'misapplication of social intelligence'. I explore this idea in relation to recent discoveries and archaeological interpretations in the Near East, arguing that social intelligence has indeed played a key role in the origin of farming and hence the emergence of the modern world.