The experimental design and theoretical description of a novel five-pulse laser spectroscopy is presented with an application to a pyridinium charge transfer complex in acetonitrile and methanol. In field-resolved polarizability response spectroscopy (PORS), an electronically resonant laser pulse first excites a solvated chromophore (reactant) and off-resonant Raman spectra of the resulting nuc...

While the effects of legal and institutional arrangements on political participation are well documented, little attention has been given to the potential participatory effects of one of the United States’ most important electoral laws: constitutionally mandated reapportionment. By severing the ties between constituents and their incumbents, we argue, redistricting raises information costs, lea...

Abstract In this paper, we develop a simple multi-technology overlapping generations model that exhibits wide variety of economic development patterns. particular, our numerical simulations demonstrate for given set parameter values, various types patterns such as the middle-income trap, poverty periodic or chaotic fluctuations, and high-income paths can coexist, which pattern is realized depen...

As the usage of handheld digital camcorders increase amongst the general population, the problem of undesired motions being introduced into captured video sequences will become ever more prevalent. Even the slightest movements on the part of the user will introduce these undesired motions, and unfortunately users will find it difficult to remain absolutely stable for any amount of time. These u...

There is a need to analyze motions in video sequences to characterize them since motion is a representative feature that distinguishes videos from other multimedia. However, the existing approaches can only provide very preliminary classification of motions. To support in-depth measurement of various motions, we need to distinguish the different motions generated by the different sources. In th...

Many techniques have been proposed for segmenting feature point trajectories tracked through a video sequence into independent motions, but objects in the scene are usually assumed to undergo general 3-D motions. As a result, the segmentation accuracy considerably deteriorates in realistic video sequences in which object motions are nearly degenerate. In this paper, we propose a multi-stage uns...

We investigated the most effective rocking motion for inducing sleep in adults. We prepared ten types of rocking motions, including two types of mother’s rocking motions. The sleep-inducing effect of all the rocking motions was evaluated using Thurstone’s paired comparison method (Case V). From statistical analysis of the subjective experimental results we found that, of the ten types of rockin...

Four experiments provide evidence for a distinction between 2 different kinds of motion representations. Extrinsic motions involve the path of an object with respect to an external frame of reference. Intrinsic motions involve the relative motions of the parts of an object. This research suggests that intrinsic motions are represented conjointly with information about the identities of the acto...