About fair asynchrony

Critical Thinking about Fair Trade Nations: Evaluating Fair Trade’s contribution to economic development

As a logical extension, the group – made up of representatives from Fair Do’s, a local dedicated Fair Trade shop, Tearfund, Oxfam Cymru, CAFOD, Christian Aid and the Co-op Group – developed the idea of pushing Fair Trade networks across Wales to undertaken practices that would allow for the country as a whole to claim the status of the world’s first Fair Trade Nation. Wales was soon joined by c...

Reasoning About Recursive Processes: Expansion is not Always Fair

When reasoning about parallel programs we would like to combine fixed-point laws for unrolling recursion with expansion laws for parallel composition. Algebraic manipulation using this combination is dangerous, because of the need to stay faithful to the assumption that parallel processes are executed fairly. We give an example of a finite-state parallel system in which the combination of fixed...

"Anesthesia about 1850" at the 1939 World's Fair.

Data and simulations about audiovisual asynchrony and predictability in speech perception

Since a paper by Chandrasekaran et al. (2009), an increasing number of neuroscience papers capitalize on the assumption that visual speech would be typically 150 ms ahead of auditory speech. It happens that the estimation of audiovisual asynchrony by Chandrasekaran et al. is valid only in very specific cases, for isolated CV syllables or at the beginning of a speech utterance. We present simple...

Millisecond stimulus onset-asynchrony enhances information about components in an odor mixture.

Airborne odorants rarely occur as pure, isolated stimuli. In a natural environment, odorants that intermingle from multiple sources create mixtures in which the onset and offset of odor components are asynchronous. Odor mixtures are known to elicit interactions in both behavioral and physiological responses, changing the perceptive quality of mixtures compared with the components. However, rele...