Despite recent successes in control theoretical programs for limb control, behavior-based cognitive approaches for control are somewhat lacking behind. Insights in psychology and neuroscience suggest that the most important ingredients for a successful developmental approach to control are anticipatory mechanisms and hierarchical structures. Anticipatory mechanisms are beneficial in handling no...

This paper presents a theory of hybrid anticipatory networks that generalizes earlier models of consequence anticipation in multicriteria decision problems. We assume that the decision maker takes into account the anticipated outcomes of future decision problems linked by the causal relations with the present decision problem. This can be represented by a multigraph, where decision problems are...

Despite recent successes in control theoretical programs for limb control, behavior-based cognitive approaches for control are somewhat lacking behind. Insights in psychology and neuroscience suggest that the most important ingredients for a successful developmental approach to control are anticipatory mechanisms and hierarchical structures. Anticipatory mechanisms are beneficial in handling no...

Researchers interested in anticipatory discourse are, generally speaking, concerned with discourses in or about the future. They investigate how individuals, texts, or utterances project representations of future events, states, or relations. Unlike other areas of applied linguistics, the study of anticipatory discourse is still very much in its infancy. As yet, there is no set tradition or sch...

Urtica dioica L. is an Iranian native pharmacological plant for which little attention has been paid to the anatomical structure. Medical applications of this plant include diabetes therapy, digestive improvement, anemia and kidney disease therapy. Because climatic conditions can affect the anatomical structure which in turn affects pharmacological compositions, research on the anatomy of this ...

Observations were made on the Ca-sensitivity of glycerinated muscle bundles from dog intestine. The results obtained were as follows 1) The Ca-sensitivity of glycerinated muscle bundles depends on theduration of glycerol extraction. With long-term extraction, the muscle bundles lost a large part of the Ca-sensitivity of the ATP contractility. 2) When the bundles that had a typical Ca-sensitivit...

It has long been held that steering a vehicle is subserved by two distinct visual processes, a compensatory one for maintaining lane position and an anticipatory one for previewing the curvature of the upcoming road. In this study, we investigated the robustness of these two steering control processes by systematically degrading their visual inputs. Performance was measured at the level of vehi...

Panic disorder involves both recurrent unexpected panic attacks and persistent concern about having additional attacks. Electrical stimulation of the dorsal periaqueductal gray (dPAG) is an animal model of both panic attack and panic disorder, whereas contextual fear conditioning represents a model of anticipatory anxiety. Previous research indicated that anxiety has an inhibitory effect on pan...