Which is heavier: a pound of lead or a pound of feathers? This classic trick question belies a simple but surprising truth: when lifted, the pound of lead feels heavier--a phenomenon known as the size-weight illusion. To estimate the weight of an object, our CNS combines two imperfect sources of information: a prior expectation, based on the object's appearance, and direct sensory information f...

INTRODUCTION This study investigates the effect of a modest weight loss either by a calorie restricted diet or mainly by increased physical exercise on health related quality of life (HRQoL) in overweight-to-obese and inactive postmenopausal women. We hypothesize that HRQoL improves with weight loss, and that exercise-induced weight loss is more effective for this than diet-induced weight loss....

In the mid-1980's, wavelet theory was developed in applied mathematics [1, 2, 3]. Soon, subband coding [4], which has been a very active research area for image and video compression, was identi ed as wavelet's discrete cousin. Furthermore, a fundamental insight into the structure of subband lters was developed from wavelet theory that led to a more productive approach to designing the lters [1...

Statistical debugging identifies program behaviors that are highly correlated with failures. Traditionally, this approach has been applied to desktop software on which it is effective in identifying the causes that underlie several difficult classes of bugs including: memory corruption, non-deterministic bugs, and bugs with multiple temporally-distant triggers. The domain of scientific computin...

Many languages have a non-obvious, but not unrelated, relationship between orthography and pronunciation. Traditional methods for automatic conversion from letters to phones involve hand-crafted letter-to-sound rules, but these require care and expertise to develop. This paper presents a letter-to-sound rule system for Thai, that is trained automatically from lexicons. A statistical model, deci...