Through this writer's many forms of adroitness, including spirit and humor, it carries a reader into an extremely distant context and makes the reader a part of the context.
The civil war that rumbles in the background is a loud and distant context for the domestic drama, which thrives most vividly in Mohsin's affectionate caricatures: Laila's surly and defensive ayah; her autocratic Punjabi grandmother; and Hester, an elephantine remnant of the British Raj, whose ex-colonial friends scoff at the liberal ideals of Laila's land-owning parents.
An additional advantage of context-specific decay is that it preserves memories associated with distant contexts (for example, the required grip force for a different object).
Risk researchers define 'ripple' effects as the effect of an event on emotions, appraisals and decisions in geographically and temporally distant contexts.
We show that the decay of memory associated with a given context is greatest for movements made in that context, with more distant contexts showing markedly reduced decay.
Drawing on a probability-as-distance framework, the current research suggests that people relate probability to other distance dimensions, expecting unlikely events to more often happen in distant contexts and likely events in near contexts.
Specifically, the decay of memory associated with a given context is greatest for movements made in that context and decreases progressively for movements made in more distant contexts.
While more distant contexts are protected from both the formation and decay of memory, intermediate contexts may be subject to small amounts of decay.
The learning rate vector is context dependent, such that errors have the greatest influence on the state associated with the current context, with diminishing influence on states associated with increasingly distant contexts.
The context-specific effects we observe are graded such that similar contexts are also subject to the combination of memory formation and decay, whereas more distant contexts are unaffected.
According to researcher Marcu Beza, the text is, outside of its humorous context, a distant reworking of ancient legends such as Cupid and Psyche.
