Brain oscillations in various frequency bands have been shown to be an important means of enabling interarea communication for high-level cognitive performance. Interestingly, perturbation to such oscillations in the form of weak noise has been shown to benefit perception in tasks such as the attentional blink (AB). Here, we investigated perturbation intrinsic to the AB task in two conditions i...

Discontinuity meshing has greatly enhanced the visual and numerical accuracy of radiosity solutions. However, its computational expense means that it cannot be used in dynamic interactive environments with current hardware. Techniques are proposed which allow the discontinuity information to be reused as the environment changes. These techniques complement existing dynamic radiosity methods whi...

Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity is the tendency for relations between groups to be more competitive than relations between individuals. We examined whether the discontinuity effect arises in part because group members experience normative pressure to favor the ingroup (parochialism). Building on the notion that accountability enhances normative pressure, we hypothesized that the discon...

Introduction 2 0.1. Some theorems in mathematics with snappy model-theoretic proofs 2 1. Languages, structures, sentences and theories 2 1.1. Languages 2 1.2. Statements and Formulas 5 1.3. Satisfaction 6 1.4. Elementary equivalence 7 1.5. Theories 8 2. Big Theorems: Completeness, Compactness and Löwenheim-Skolem 9 2.1. The Completeness Theorem 9 2.2. Proof-theoretic consequences of the complet...

1 Shigang YUE is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation from Beijing Polytechnic University. Abstract The vibration induced in a deformable object upon automatic handling by robot manipulators can often be bothersome. This paper presents a force/torque sensorbased method for handling deformable linear objects (DLOs) in a manner suitable to eliminate acute vibration. An...

Holling (1992) suggested the texturaldiscontinuity hypothesis (TDH) as an explanation for the clumped body-mass distributions he observed for mammals and birds. The TDH states that the discontinuous structure of a landscape should dictate the sizes of the animals that inhabit it. Holling (1992) characterized landscapes in terms of their hierarchical habitat structure, proceeding from finely tex...

This paper examines the learnability of a major subclass of E-pattern languages – also known as erasing or extended pattern languages – in Gold’s learning model: We show that the class of terminal-free E-pattern languages is inferrable from positive data if the corresponding terminal alphabet consists of three or more letters. Consequently, the recently presented negative result for binary alph...

This paper is concerned with tile treatment of discontinuous constituency within Categorial Grammar. In particular, I address the problem of providing an adequate formalisation of categorial commctives l)rol)osed by Moortgat (1988), which are useful for handling certain forms of diseontimmus eonstitnency, l)espite some interesting proposals, a satisfactory logic for these e{mnectives has so far...

Continuity and discontinuity in learning refer to the problem of whether there are qualitative changes in the fundamental mechanisms that govern learning. This question has been examined in the literature in two separate but related ways. The first approach examines whether qualitative breaks occur with increasing expertise or additional learning, and was conducted mostly prior to the 1980s usi...