Abstract Between 1899 and 1907, the medium Rosalie Thompson—giving voice to her dead daughter, Nelly—participated in a number of experimental seances with Society for Psychical Research (SPR), which were formative development society’s theories telepathy, personality survival. Using extensive séance notes taken by researchers, range published materials related case, this article situates psychi...

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2015 JCS prize is Monika Zwerger for her paper entitled ‘Altering lamina assembly reveals lamina-dependent and -independent functions for A-type lamins’ (Zwerger et al., 2015). The prize, $1000, is awarded annually to a junior researcher who is the first author of the paper that is judged by the Editors and Editorial Board to be the best eligibl...

The competition for the first William Bynum Prize 2013 was intense; four of the papers submitted for consideration have been deemed worthy of publication on the basis of a demanding peer review process. Our Prize Committee, which consisted of five inspirational colleagues who consistently sacrificed a lot of their time despite having busy work-schedules, included Dr Jeremy Greene of Johns Hopki...

This report identifies mechanisms and techniques for the efficient cooperation among heterogeneous radio access networks (RANs), with focus on the cooperation between the WINNER RAN and legacy RANs (GSM/GPRS/UMTS and IEEE 802.11, 802.16, and DVB). The report has two main parts. The first part is an initial description of cooperation architectures and coupling schemes, later to be analyzed for o...

Over the past few years, soccer-playing humanoid robots advanced significantly. Elementary skills, such as bipedal walking, visual perception, and collision avoidance have matured enough to allow for dynamic and exciting games. In this paper, the three winning Humanoid League teams from the KidSize, TeenSize, and AdultSize class present their soccer systems. The KidSize winner team DARwIn used ...

Winner and loser effects, in which the probability of future success depends on individual’s interaction history, help shape the structure of social hierarchies in animal groups. While reports have documented that both magnitude and symmetry of these effects vary widely across different systems, questions remain whether these effects serve to reduce the associated costs during hierarchy formati...

This paper presents particle swarm optimization based on learning from winner particle. (PSO-WS). Instead of considering gbest and pbest particle for position update, each particle considers its distance from immediate winner to update its position. Only winner particle follow general velocity and position update equation. If this strategy performs well for the particle, then that particle upda...

Schulze’s rule is used in the elections of a large number of organizations including Wikimedia and Debian. Part of the reason for its popularity is the large number of axiomatic properties, like monotonicity and Condorcet consistency, which it satisfies. We identify a potential shortcoming of Schulze’s rule: it is computationally vulnerable to manipulation. In particular, we prove that computin...

The Third Generation Partnership Program’s Long-term Evolution (3GPP LTE) group is developing a new standard for mobile broad-band access that will meet the throughput and coverage requirements beyond third generation cellular technology. The key goals for this evolution are increased data rate, improved spectrum efficiency, improved coverage. To evaluate and ensure the overall performance of L...