At every level of the visual system - from retina to cortex - information is encoded in the activity of large populations of cells. The populations are not uniform, but contain many different types of cells, each with its own sensitivities to visual stimuli. Understanding the roles of the cell types and how they work together to form collective representations has been a long-standing goal. Thi...

This study examined the role of automaticity in forgiving a real-life offense. As an alternative to self-report, an Implicit Association Test (IAT) of forgiveness was developed. Implicit (IAT-measured) and explicit (self-reported) forgiveness predicted shorter response times of state forgiveness ratings. The forgiveness IAT was highly reliable, moderately stable over time, and demonstrated incr...

Many scalable reliable multicast protocols use the local repair scheme where certain receivers retransmit packets by other receivers. Such schemes need a mechanism, called message stability, to ensure reliable delivery to all members of a multicast group and to delete those packets received by all members from the buffers of the local repairers. We propose a new protocol for message stability b...

The PhD thesis presented in this paper aims for the development of novel methods that enable the realization of highly scalable, highly reliable distributed Complex Event Processing systems that are capable of processing huge amounts of incoming events within a guaranteed time.

INTRODUCTION: The MMPI is the most frequently used clinical test. Therefore, it is employed quite often in court cases to provide personality information on defendants or litigants in which psychological adjustment factors are pertinent to resolution of the case. It is easy to administer and provides an objective measure of personality. Since it is such a well-researched and highly reliable ins...

Some reciprocating compressors have connecting rods with ball joints to join the crankshaft and the piston. The load of the pressurized gas inside the cylinder directly loads the joint of the piston and the connecting rod. For this reason, it needs to be highly reliable, so it needs to be made of hard material, high-precision spherical surfaces, and a complicated assembling line. Accordingly, t...

We examined individual and developmental differences in the disruptive effects of irrelevant sounds on serial recall of printed lists. In Experiment 1, we examined adults (N = 205) receiving eight-item lists to be recalled. Although their susceptibility to disruption of recall by irrelevant sounds was only slightly related to memory span, regression analyses documented highly reliable individua...

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) shortens conventional microbiological methods for the detection of food pathogens either by replacing the conventional biochemical and serological identification or by its direct use on pre-enrichment media or food products. PCR allows fast and highly reliable identification of bacterial taxa, particularly phenotypically atypical bacterial strains. For reliab...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of maternal recall of children birthweight (BW) and gestational age (GA), using the Danish Medical Birth Register (DBR) as reference and to examine the reliability of recalled BW and its potential correlates. DESIGN Comparison of data from the DBR and the European Youth Heart Study (EYHS). SETTING Schools in Odense, Denmark. POPULATION A total of 1271 a...

The study of religion is severely handicapped by a lack of adequate cross-national data. Despite the prominence of religion in international events and recent theoretical models pointing to the consequences of regulating religion, cross-national research on religion has been lacking. We strive to fill this void by developing measurement models and indexes for government regulation, government f...