Nickels, L., Rapp, B., and Kohnen, S. (2015. Challenges in the use of treatment to investigate cognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 32, 91-103) argue that impairment and treatment may be used to test computational models of cognition. They state that, contrary to their view, the authors of the WEAVER++ model of spoken word production have explicitly rejected simulation of impairment [i.e., Lev...

This dual-band CMOS receiver for GSM and DCS1800 applications incorporates hardware sharing between two paths to reduce the number of off-chip components [1]. The receiver is an extension of the Weaver single-sideband architecture [2]. Utilized in References 3 and 4, the Weaver architecture performs two consecutive quadrature downconversion operations on the signal and the image such that if th...

Many tasks in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) involve cross-cutting model modifications that are bound to certain conditions. These transformation tasks may affect numerous model elements and appear in different forms, such as refactoring, model completions or aspectoriented model weaving. Although the operations at the heart of these tasks are domain-independent, generic solutions that can easi...

It is the assertion of this paper that Informing Science (IS) framework (Cohen, 2009) gives insufficient attention to role of the client, a failing traced to the framework’s derivation from the Shannon-Weaver model of communication (Shannon & Weaver, 1949). The IS framework ignores developments in information and communication technology (ICT) and human rights and the resulting emergence of a c...

Abstract We study the importance of family ties on economic behavior. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey (WVS) regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children are expected to have for their parents in 81 countries. We show that with strong family ties home production is higher and families larger, labor force parti...

BACKGROUND Few reconstructive methods to treat displaced acromioclavicular separations have been evaluated using kinematic data. HYPOTHESIS The modified Weaver-Dunn reconstruction restores intact acromioclavicular joint motion during passive scapular plane abduction. STUDY DESIGN Controlled laboratory study. METHODS Acromioclavicular joint motion was recorded during passive humeral elevat...

Weaver is a spontaneous mutation in mice characterized by the postnatal loss of external granule cells in the cerebellum and dopaminergic neurons of the midbrain, especially in the substantia nigra. We have shown previously that natural cell death with the morphology of apoptosis occurs in the substantia nigra of normal rodents during postnatal development. We therefore sought to determine whet...