Most popular techniques f o r t h e narrowband direct ion of arrival ( D O A ) problem rely on a n eigendecomposi t ion ( E V D ) compu ta t i o n t o de t e rmine both the n u m b e r of s ignals and the i r respective D O A s . In t h i s paper, a n al ternat ive algori thm i s presented tha t solves both t h e D O A detect ion and e s t ima t ion problems w i thou t resort ing t o an E V D ....

Word-posi t ionindependent and word -pos i t i on dependent n-gram p r o b a b i l i t i e s were est imated from a la rge Engl ish language corpus. A t e x t r e c o g n i t i o n problem was s imu la ted , and using the est imated n-gram p r o b a b i l i t i e s , four experiments were conducted by the f o l l o w i n g methods of c l a s s i f i c a t i o n : w i thou t contex tua l i n f o...

This paper illustrates a 'Conversational Model' of art therapy. The Conversational Model was jointly created by Robert Hobson and Russell Meares. It is a developmental theory unique in its clinical application. The focus of the paper is two sessions that altered the course of therapy. In these sessions, variations on Donald Winnicott's "squiggle-game" and Hobson's "party game" were used to enga...

The problem of fairly dividing a cake (as a metaphor for a heterogeneous divisible good) has been the subject of much interest since the 1940’s, and is of importance in multiagent resource allocation. Two fairness criteria are usually considered: proportionality, in the sense that each of the n agents receives at least 1/n of the cake; and the stronger property of envy-freeness, namely that eac...

The power of digital simulation combined with the elementary simplicity of Universal Computational Models (e.g. Turing Machines, Church's λ-calculus, Curry's Combinatory Logic, cellular automata, …) is apparently the Pythagorean dream made true, but because of the remoteness and gratuitousness of Computational Models it is also the original sin of Computing. In effect, the dynamics of token/sym...

The experimental systems community relies on benchmarks to evaluate proposed innovations. Therefore, the choice of benchmarks and the programming language in which they are written is a gating function for innovation in our field. While application developers are increasingly embracing managed languages such as Java and C#, systems researchers have not. This disconnect between researchers and a...

one of the central issues in shāh-nāma studies concerns the question of “essence” and “art.” in the shāh-nāma’s perspective, the demiurge has created the microcosm (humankind) and the macrocosm (the universe), each with a particular essence. both cannot but submit to the command of their essences. however, the creator has bestowed his discernment on the human world. for this reason, the human b...