Previous work shows that children use syntactic information to guide their hypotheses about verb meaning. Bunger & Lidz 2004 demonstrated that 2-year-olds map novel unaccusative verbs onto just the result subevent of a complex causative event and novel transitive verbs onto the entire causative event. We present data from a new preferential looking study demonstrating that 2-year-olds map novel...

Pseudorandom generators, which produce keystreams for stream ciphers by the exclusiveor sum of outputs of alternately clocked linear feedback shift registers, are vulnerable to cryptanalysis. In order to increase their resistance to attacks, we introduce a non-linear scrambler at the output of these generators. Non-linear feedback shift register plays the role of the scrambler. In addition, we ...

Recently in proving certain existence theorems for non-alternating and for interior transformations of a continuum onto a simple arc it was observed that when a transformation of one of these types was set up, usually it satisfied in large measure conditions which brought it also under transformations of the other type. This suggests the existence of common ground shared by these sorts of trans...

Matrix approximation problems with non-negativity constraints arise during the analysis of high-dimensional non-negative data. Applications include dimensionality reduction, feature extraction and statistical factor analysis. This paper discusses a general algorithm for solving these problems with respect to a large class of error measures. The primary goal of this article is to develop a rigor...

PURPOSE Partial blindness after visual system damage is considered irreversible, yet the brain has residual visual capacities and considerable plasticity potential. We now applied non-invasive alternating current stimulation (ACS) to the visual system of patients with optic nerve damage with the aim to induce recovery of visual functions. METHODS In a prospective, double-blind, randomized, pl...

In this paper, we provide local and global convergence guarantees for recovering CP (Candecomp/Parafac) tensor decomposition. The main step of the proposed algorithm is a simple alternating rank-1 update which is the alternating version of the tensor power iteration adapted for asymmetric tensors. Local convergence guarantees are established for third order tensors of rank k in d dimensions, wh...

In this paper we consider several notions of alternation in cellular automata: non-uniform, uniform and weak alternation. We study relations among these notions and with alternating Turing machines. It is proved that the languages accepted in polynomial time by alternating Turing machines are those accepted by alternating cellular automata in polynomial time for all the proposed alternating cel...

The analysis of human-computer co-creative systems in current literature is focused on a human perspective, highlighting the benefits of co-creative systems for human users. This study paper examines different styles of human-computer co-creation from a more computational perspective, presenting new concepts for analysis of computational agents in human-computer cocreation. Our perspective is b...