Abstract Automated algorithms are silently making crucial decisions about our lives, but most of the time we have little understanding how they work. To counter this hidden influence, there been increasing calls for algorithmic transparency. Much ink has spilled over informational account transparency—about much information should be revealed inner workings an algorithm. But few studies questio...

Introduction What can transparency contribute to those seeking to improve the effectiveness of earth system governance? This article distinguishes among various policies designed to promote transparency based on the mechanisms by which they influence behavior and, thereby, seeks to identify the conditions under which we might expect them to promote socially desirable behavior and to discourage ...

Electromagnetically induced transparency is a type of quantum interference that induces near-zero reflection and near-perfect transmission. As a classical analogy, metal nanostructure plasmonic 'molecules' produce plasmon-induced transparency conventionally. Herein, an electromagnetically induced transparency interaction is demonstrated in silicon nanosphere oligomers, wherein the strong magnet...

(2) Socrates is a man are semantic, and not merely syntactic, constituents of (1); someone who does not understand that name or that predicate does not understand (1). In this respect (1) differs from the metalinguistic “Socrates is a man” is a necessary truth in English. (b) Intuitively, also, (1) results from the application of a sentential operator “necessarily” to (2) at least somewhat as S...

Accurate color reproduction of images presented on a computer-controlled CRT display as projected 35mm transparencies is a complicated procedure requiring the characterization and control of several imaging processes and application of appropriate color-appearance modeling to account for the changes in viewing conditions. This paper reviews a process for image-recorder characterization, project...

Neurons in area MT of primate visual cortex encode the velocity of moving objects. We present a model of how MT cells aggregate responses from VI to form such a velocity representation. Two different sets of units, with local receptive fields, receive inputs from motion energy filters. One set of units forms estimates of local motion, while the second set computes the utility of these estimates...

In this paper, a new frequency-domain approach to represent motions is proposed. The new scheme is based on a band-pass filtering with a set of logGabor spatio-temporal filters. It is well known that one of the main problems of these approaches is that a filter response varies with the spatial orientation of the underlying signal. To solve this spatial dependency, the proposed model allows to r...

in the current study, whey protein- pullulan- clay nanocomposite films are prepared by casting method. the effect of nanoclay at three concentrations (1%, 3% and 5%) on physical properties such as moisture content, solubility in water, water vapor permeability and transparency of whey protein- pullulan composite films investigated. the results show that the effect of nanoparticles on composite ...