High intensity and high quality muon beams are needed for next generation lepton flavour violation experiments. Such beams can be produced by sending a short proton pulse to a pion production target, capturing the pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring. Such a solution was proposed for the PRISM project and this paper summarizes its current status. In ...

PRISM is a new type of symbolic-statistical modeling language which integrates logic programming and learning seamlessly 2 . It is designed for the symbolic-statistical modeling of complex phenomena such as genetics and economics where logical/social rules and uncertainty interact, thus expected to be a valuable tool for scienti c discovery. In this paper, we rst give a detailed account of PRIS...

Preface The past few years have witnessed a tremendous interest in logic-based probabilistic learning as testified by the number of formalisms and systems and their applications. Logic-based probabilistic learning is a multidisciplinary research area that integrates relational or logic formalisms, probabilistic reasoning mechanisms, and machine learning and data mining principles. Logic-based p...

In October 2006, remotely sensed data of PRISM (Panchromatic Remote-Sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping) sensor that mounted on Japanese satellite ALOS (Advanced Land Observation Satellite) was began to provide for general users. ALOS has some missions such as mapping, regional observation, disaster situation observation and survey of natural resources. In the mission of disaster situation ob...

Preface The past few years have witnessed a tremendous interest in logic-based probabilistic learning as testified by the number of formalisms and systems and their applications. Logic-based probabilistic learning is a multidisciplinary research area that integrates relational or logic formalisms, probabilistic reasoning mechanisms, and machine learning and data mining principles. Logic-based p...

Suppose filesystems supported cloning of any subset of directories, even those containing gigabytes of data, almost instantaneously, while guaranteeing isolation between the original copy and the cloned copy. We show that this simple abstraction can greatly simplify many routine tasks, both for a single operating system and for clusters of similar virtual machines in a virtual server farm. In t...

Prism adaptation improves a wide range of manifestations of left spatial neglect in right-brain-damaged patients. The typical paradigm consists in repeated pointing movements to visual targets, while patients wear prism goggles that displace the visual scene rightwards. Recently, we demonstrated the efficacy of a novel adaptation procedure, involving a variety of every-day visuo-motor activitie...

Prism adaptation to rightward optical shifts during visually guided pointing is considered a promising intervention in right-hemisphere stroke patients with left spatial neglect. Conventionally, prism adaptation is assessed via aftereffects, on subjective straight ahead (SSA) pointing with eyes closed; or by visual open-loop pointing (VOL), i.e. pointing to a visual target without seeing the ha...

The capacity of barn owls to adapt visuomotor behavior in response to prism-induced displacement of the visual field was tested in babies and adults. Matched, binocular Fresnel prisms, which displaced the visual field 11 degrees, 23 degrees, or 34 degrees to the right, were placed on owls for periods of up to 99 d. Seven baby owls wore the prisms from the day the eyelids first opened; 2 owls wo...

PURPOSE While prisms are commonly prescribed for homonymous hemianopia to extend or expand the visual field, they cause potentially troubling visual side effects, including nonveridical location of perceived images, diplopia, and visual confusion. In addition, the field behind a prism at its apex is lost to an apical scotoma equal in magnitude to the amount of prism shift. The perceptual conseq...