Successful decision making involves combining observations of the external world with prior knowledge. Recent studies suggest that neural activity in macaque lateral intraparietal area (LIP) provides a useful window into this process. This study examines how rapidly changing prior knowledge about an upcoming sensory stimulus influences the computations that convert sensory signals into plans fo...

In this work the analytical expressions of half-time T1/2 and its derivatives in respect to distance ∂T1/2/∂R in a one-dimensional RC medium (a current electrode has a shape of the segment) and in a two-dimensional RC medium (a current electrode has a shape of the circle) were received. First, by using a well-known in electrostatics a superposition principle, the current’s electrodes were divid...

Mapping deformation field time-series, including vertical and horizontal motions, is vital for landslide monitoring and slope safety assessment. However, the conventional differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry (DInSAR) technique can only detect the displacement component in the satellite-to-ground direction, i.e., line-of-sight (LOS) direction displacement. To overcome this constr...

IF a corneal graft is not properly coapted to its bed, a series of complications may ensue. These have been summarized by Barraquer (1950). A cause of this lack of coaptation is that the sides of the graft or of the bed may not be vertical, and that if sloping they may not slope in similar directions. A series of simple tests were therefore carried out to determine: (a) The direction of the sid...

In the field of palmprint recognition, the orientation information of the principal lines and winkles has long been considered the most dominant and reliable feature. Numerous studies have tried to extract the line orientation information. Among them, the orientation based coding methods such as robust line orientation code (RLOC) and binary orientation co-occurrence vector (BOCV) showed highly...

Three competing accounts of vowel inherent spectral change in English all agree on the importance of initial formant frequencies; however, they disagree about the nature of the perceptually relevant aspects of formant change. The onset+offset hypothesis claims that the final formant values themselves matter. The onset+slope hypothesis claims that only the rate of change counts. The onset+direct...

Two dimensional slope profile morphometric investigation in a part of the land failure prone Garhwal region of the Lesser Himalaya, Tehri district, U. P., India, indicates that the landslip morphology is closely related to the dominant movement processes active in this terrain. Technique developed for the morphometric analysis of landslips involves the use of five morphometric indices. Each ind...

Traditional direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods wideband linear frequency modulated (LFM) signal based on the fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) highly depend peak value LFM in FRFT domain. However, can be affected by various factors, such as a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), small number snapshots, or large incident angle signals, which lead to decrease DOA accuracy. To tackle this...