The spotted cutworm, Xestia c-nigrum (L.), is highly polyphagous (Tietz 1972) and is a widespread pest of numerous crops in temperate regions of North America, Asia and Europe. It is noteworthy for its early spring damage to leaf and flower buds. The spotted cutworm is a significant pest of several crops in the Yakima Valley of eastern Washington state and causes occasional economic damage to v...

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements are performed to elucidate the mobility of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in aqueous domains of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae. A confocal detection scheme is adopted that allows one to record the recovery dynamics which originate exclusively from intracellular regions. In the confocal arrangement, favorable excitation intensity lev...

Design for test is an integral part of any VLSI chip. However, for secure systems extra precautions have to be taken to prevent that the test circuitry could reveal secret information. This paper addresses secure test for Physical Unclonable Function based systems. It investigates two secure Built-In Self-Test (BIST) solutions for Fuzzy Extractor (FE) which is the main component of PUF-based sy...

chemicals in insects (Blaney et al., 1986; Schoonhoven et al., 1998), responses falling to zero after experience are not known. For example, olfactory sensitivity of mosquitoes to lactic acid is reduced following a blood meal (Davis, 1984), and gustatory sensitivity to inositol and other plant chemicals was shown to be reduced by about 20% in caterpillars of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta i...

Language production comprises conceptual, grammatical, and word form encoding as well as articulation. This paper focuses on word form or phonological encoding. Phonological encoding in speech production can be subdivided into a number of sub-processes such as segmental, metrical, and syllabic encoding. Each of these processes is briefly described and illustrated with examples from my own resea...

A fundamental issue in psycholinguistics concerns how speakers retrieve intended words from long-term memory. According to a selection by competition account (e.g., Levelt et al., 1999), conceptually driven word retrieval involves the activation of a set of candidate words and a competitive selection of the intended word from this set. Selection by competition explains, for example, the Stroop ...

The role of consciousness during simple and difficult decision-making tasks 5:40-6:10 pm James Blackmon Independently conscious brain hemispheres: a plurality of minds Isolating neural signatures of conscious perception with perceptually bistable stimuli Salient sounds enhance visual-cortical processing: Interplay between reflexive auditory-evoked activation and top-down voluntary attentional p...

Citation: Montefinese M and Vinson D (2015) Can the humped animal's knee conceal its name? Commentary on: " The roles of shared vs. distinctive conceptual features in lexical access ". Can the humped animal's knee conceal its name? Commentary on: " The roles of shared vs. distinctive conceptual features in lexical access " The representation of meaning is a pivotal topic for theories of languag...

37 Patients report that the more intense chronic pain is, the more it lowers concentration. Using different approaches, various studies revealed deficits in general cognitive functioning caused by chronic pain. Impairments were found e.g. in working memory capacity, attention and concentration (Crombez, Eccleston, Baeyens, & Eelen, 1996, 1997; Dick, Eccleston, & Crombez, 2002; Dick & Rashiq, 20...

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