Recently Stefanics et al. (2014) reviewed the visual (v) mismatch negativity (MMN), a negative shift in voltage of an event-related potential (ERP) to an unpredictable, rare, deviant stimulus in a regular sequence of identical, standard stimuli. Stefanics et al. have written a wonderfully comprehensive review of the vMMN, concluding that it might be a sign of predictive coding (Mumford, 1992; F...

This proposal describes a project that Richelle Winkler will pursue as part of her dissertation research in conjunction with a group of community residents in the Brainerd Lakes Area. The goal of this proposal is to summarize the research goals, methods, budget, and expected products. This proposal is negotiable in the sense that any agreed upon project should meet both the needs of the researc...

The hat guessing number is a graph invariant based on game introduced by Winkler. Using new vertex decomposition argument involving an edge density theorem of Erdős for hypergraphs, we show that the all outerplanar graphs less than 2125000. We also define class layered planar graphs, which contains and every has bounded number.

A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, Protolopheros gen. n., and a new species, Protolopheros hoffeinsorum sp. n., are described from the Baltic amber. The new taxon is placed in Erotini, next to Lopheros Leconte, 1881. The extant Pseudaplatopterus (Eropterus) Green, 1951, comb. n. is lowered in rank and placed as a subgenus of the fossil Pseudaplatopterus Kleine, 1940. The extant Kolibaceu...

Mammalian nucleotide excision repair and syndromes W. Vermeulcn*, J. de Boer*, E. Citterio*, A. J. van Gool*, G. T. J. van der Horst*, N. G. J. Jaspers*, W. L. dc Laat*, A. M. Sijbers*, P. J. van der Spek*, K. Sugasawa*, G. Weeda*, G. S. Winkler*, D. Bootsma*, J.-M. Egly-land J. H. J. Hoeijmakers. *Department of Genetics, Medical Genetics Centre, Erasmus University, P.O. Box I 738, 3000DR Rotte...

Two players want to eat a sliced pizza by alternately picking its pieces. The pieces may be of various sizes. After the first piece is eaten every subsequently picked piece must be adjacent to some previously eaten. We provide a strategy for the starting player to eat 4 9 of the total size of the pizza. This is best possible and settles a conjecture of Peter Winkler.

X iv :c on dm at /0 00 20 94 v1 [ co nd -m at .s up rco n] 7 F eb 2 00 0 Intrinsic tunneling spectroscopy in small Bi2212 mesas Vladimir Krasnov, August Yurgens, Dag Winkler and Per Delsing 1 MINA, Chalmers University of Technology, S41296, Göteborg, Sweden 2 Institute of Solid state Physics, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia 3 P.L.Kapitsa Institute, 117334 Moscow, Russia 4 IMEGO Institute, Ascheber...

Little is known about the potential for acoustic communication in bed bugs, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), or the use of sound as cues in host location, although many hemipterans are known to communicate with sound. Most behavioral research has focused on bed bug pheromones that are used in aggregation and as alarm signals. We investigated the influence of sound as a deterrent and...

We tested a threshold-based bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) management approach with the goal of achieving elimination with minimal or no insecticide application. Thirty-two bed bug infested apartments were identified. These apartments were divided into four treatment groups based on apartment size and initial bed bug count, obtained through a combination of visual inspection and bed bug monitor...

This Letter deals with an analysis of bending edge waves propagating along the free edge of a Kirchhoff plate supported by a Winkler foundation. The presence of a foundation leads to a non-zero cut-off frequency for this wave, along with a local minimum of the associated phase velocity. This minimum phase velocity corresponds to a critical speed of an edge moving load and is analogous to that i...