Theory of stochastic processes provides theoretical tools which can be efficiently used to explore properties noise induced escape kinetics. Since facilitated over the potential barrier resembles free climbing, one use first passage time theory in analysis rock climbing. We perform mean order answer question regarding optimal, i.e., resulting fastest rope length. It is demonstrated that there a...

We analyze the behavior of hill-climbing algorithms for the minimum bisection problem on instances drawn from the \planted bisection" ran-is one of the few problem distributions for which various popular heuris-tic methods, such as simulated annealing, have been proven to succeed. However, it has been open whether these sophisticated methods were necessary , or whether simpler heuristics would ...

In indoor rock climbing, the perception of object properties and the adequate execution of grasping actions highly determine climbers' performance. In two consecutive experiments, effects of climbing expertise on the cognitive activation of grasping actions following the presentation of climbing holds was investigated. Experiment 1 evaluated the representation of climbing holds in the long-term...

Buspirone, a partial agonist of 5-hydroxytryptaminelA autoreceptors, preferentially blocks the presynaptic rather than the postsynaptic D2 dopamine (DA) receptors. Behavioural effects of a wide dose range of buspirone were therefore studied in mice. Buspirone at 0.625 to 5 mg/kg ip induced stereotyped cage climbing behaviour which was antagonized by pretreatment with haloperidol, alpha-methyl-p...