The paper investigates possible readings of the later Heisenberg's remarks on the nature of quantum states. It discusses, in particular, whether Heisenberg should be seen as a proponent of the epistemic conception of states---the view that quantum states are not descriptions of quantum systems but rather reflect the state assigning observers' epistemic relations to these systems. On the one han...

INTRODUCTION Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that results in impaired motor control, spasticity, and consequently, a significant reduction in walking ability. There are a variety of orthopedic surgeries available to correct bony alignment and lengthen or transfer tight or spastic muscles, with the goal of improving walking ability. Patients often receive multiple simultaneous surgical...

Molecular profiling technologies monitor thousands of transcripts, proteins, metabolites or other species concurrently in biological samples of interest. Given two-class, high-dimensional profiling data, nominal Liknon [4] is a specific implementation of a methodology for performing simultaneous relevant feature identification and classification. It exploits the well-known property that minimiz...

In this paper, we present a research agenda that focuses on employing whole-body movement as an interaction modality for accessing and manipulating abstract information. This investigation aims to answer various open questions including: What movement qualities could be computationally sensed and how could these qualities be mapped to control digital information? What computational models are r...

We discuss supersymmetry breaking induced by simultaneous presence of a Wilson-line type superpotential and boundary-localized Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in a four dimensional theory based on deconstruction of five-dimensional abelian gauge theories on orbifolds. Large hierarchy between the scale of supersymmetry breaking and the fundamental scale can be generated dynamically. The model has several...

This paper presents an approach for human detection and simultaneous behavior recognition from images and image sequences. An action representation is derived by applying a clustering algorithm to sequences of Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) descriptors of human motion images. For novel image sequences, we first detect the human by matching extracted descriptors with the prototypical actio...

In the recent literature on bilingualism, a lively debate has arisen about the long-term effects of bilingualism on cognition and the brain. These studies yield inconsistent results, in part because they rely on comparisons between bilingual and monolingual control groups that may also differ on other variables. In the present neuroimaging study, we adopted a longitudinal design, assessing the ...

concepts such as love, compassion, or blessing in BUSH_V seemed to be especially troublesome for the participants, as illustrated in the following comment from Interpreter H, who chose to abandon a message instead of transforming it. It should be noted that the factor of time may also have played a role in her approach to the passage, as she was interpreting the speech at the fast speed. ST: We...

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is rapidly gaining popularity in population genetics. One example, msBayes, infers the distribution of divergence times among pairs of taxa, allowing phylogeographers to test hypotheses about historical causes of diversification in co-distributed groups of organisms. Using msBayes, we infer the distribution of divergence times among 22 pairs of populations...