The ability to process in parallel multiple forms of sensory information, and link sensory-sensory associations to behavior, presumably allows for the opportunistic use of the most reliable and predictive sensory modalities in diverse behavioral contexts. Evolutionary considerations indicate that such processing may represent a fundamental operating principle underlying complex sensory associat...

The Department provides for its major and minor students in French, German, and Spanish, and minor students in Italian, programs of study that are conducive to developing competence in the spoken and written language, with a broad and deep knowledge of the literature and culture of the target languages. The Department offers to its students of Chinese and Japanese a program of study conducive t...

The input signals to the arterial tree is a measured mass flow curve which is found on the course homepage1. Please note that this introduction is not complete, there are many open issues. You will, therefore, need to make assumptions based on your engineering experience and also look for information elsewhere. It is therefore important that you consider the validity of the assumption and its e...

Increased productivity is of societal good and efforts to achieve this should be a relevant task for all businesses. However, the concept of productivity is not clear as to what is to be measured. This becomes a problem especially when statements are made that the development of productivity in the construction industry is not as good as other sectors of industry. It is not clear if this compar...

The standard revealed preference argument relies on an implicit assumption that a decision maker considers all feasible alternatives. However, the marketing and psychology literatures provide well-established evidence that consumers do not consider all brands in a given market before making a purchase (Limited Attention). In this paper, we illustrate how one can deduce both the decision maker’s...

U.S. health care system is plagued by rising cost and limited access. While the cost of care is increasing faster than the rate of inflation, people living in rural areas have very limited access to quality health care due to a shortage of physicians and facilities in these areas. Information and communication technologies in general and telemedicine in particular offer great promise to extend ...

In this paper we present a large-scale approach for the extraction of verbs in reference contexts. We analyze citation contexts in relation with the IMRaD structure of scientific articles and use rank correlation analysis to characterize the distances between the section types. The results show strong differences in the verb frequencies around citations between the sections in the IMRaD structu...

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This is not a new result. Purpose of this work is to describe a method to search the analytical expression of the general real solution of the two-dimensional Laplace differential equation. This thing is not easy to find in scientific literature and, if present, often it is justified with the assertion that an arbitrary analytic complex function is a solution of Laplace equation, so introducing...