One third of all adults report experiencing tinnitus at some time in their lives. Ten percent to 15% have prolonged tinnitus requiring medical evaluation. Classification of tinnitus requires a thorough history and physical examination, supplemented by appropriate diagnostic tests. Tinnitus can be categorized according to its qualities (as described by the patient and matched on the audiometer) ...

A concept for identification of candidates for outliers is presented, with a focus on nominal variables. The database concerned is searched for rules that are almost universally valid, with rare exceptions. In statistical terms, for these rules, the hypothesis that the rule is universally valid except for random faults cannot be rejected. Outlier candidates are those values that violate these r...

The purpose of this poster is to introduce a dialectical theory for plan synthesis based on a multiagent approach. This approach is a promising way to devise systems able to take into account partial knowledge and heterogeneous skills of agents. We propose to consider the planning problem as a defeasible reasoning where agents exchange proposals and counter-proposals and are able to conjecture ...

This document describes the historical and background information behind the removal of the "on-link assumption" from the conceptual host sending algorithm defined in Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6). According to the algorithm as originally described, when a host’s default router list is empty, the host assumes that all destinations are on-link. This is particularly problematic with ...

Today, different formalisms exist to solve reasoning problems under uncertainty. For most of the known formalisms, corresponding computer implementations are available. The problem is that each of the existing systems has its own user interface and an individual language to model the knowledge and the queries. This paper proposes ABEL, a new and general language to express uncertain knowledge a...

Despite an ever growing knowledge on how parietal and prefrontal neurons encode low-level spatial and color information or higher-level information, such as spatial attention, an understanding of how these cortical regions process neuronal information at the population level is still missing. A simple assumption would be that the function and temporal response profiles of these neuronal populat...

Multisensory integration and crossmodal attention have a large impact on how we perceive the world. Therefore, it is important to know under what circumstances these processes take place and how they affect our performance. So far, no consensus has been reached on whether multisensory integration and crossmodal attention operate independently and whether they represent truly automatic processes...

Escherichia coli K1060-B5 (fadE fabB thi) incorporates into phospholipids several new synthetic fatty acid analogs including those containing phenyl, phenoxy, and azidophenoxy groups at the omega position.

 Spatial generalized linear mixed models are used commonly for modelling non-Gaussian discrete spatial responses. We present an algorithm for parameter estimation of the models using Laplace approximation of likelihood function. In these models, the spatial correlation structure of data is carried out by random effects or latent variables. In most spatial analysis, it is assumed that rando...