Falling Off the Roof

Falling off the academic bandwagon

Women constitute approximately 45% of the postdoctoral fellows in the biomedical sciences at universities and research institutions in the uSa, but a much lower percentage of women hold faculty positions. in the uS national institutes of Health (niH; Bethesda, MD) intramural research program, for example, women make up only 29% of the tenure-track investigators and hold just 19% of the tenured ...

Walking Appearance Manifolds without Falling Off

Having a good description of an object’s appearance is crucial for good object tracking. However, modeling the whole appearance of an object is difficult because of the high dimensional and nonlinear character of the appearance. To tackle the first problem we apply nonlinear dimensionality reduction approaches on multiple views of an object in order to extract the appearance manifold of the obj...

Falling Off the Cliff: When Systems Go Nonlinear

As the systems we build become more complex, understanding and managing their behavior becomes more challenging. If the system’s inputs are within an acceptable range, it will behave predictably. However, the system may “fall off the cliff” if input values are outside this range. This nonlinear behavior is undesirable, because the system no longer behaves predictably: it may not be possible to ...

How to Sync to the Beat of a Persistent Fractal Metronome without Falling Off the Treadmill?

In rehabilitation, rhythmic acoustic cues are often used to improve gait. However, stride-time fluctuations become anti-persistent with such pacing, thereby deviating from the characteristic persistent long-range correlations in stride times of self-paced walking healthy adults. Recent studies therefore experimented with metronomes with persistence in interbeat intervals and successfully evoked...

Falling off the vine: legal fictions and the doctrine of substituted judgment.