The development of what has come to be thought of as Southeast Asia has been profoundly shaped by its interaction with other, more powerful, forces from outside the region. Whether this has been the impact of religious traditions from other parts of Asia, the impact of expanding economic relations within Asia itself, or the more recent and revolutionary impact of ‘the West’ (Beeson 2001a), the ...

The potentials of pilot-symbol-aided channel estimation in two dimensions are explored for mobile radio and broadcasting applications. In order to procure this goal, the discrete shift-variant 2-D Wiener lter is analyzed given an arbitrary sampling grid, an arbitrary (but possibly optimized) selection of observations, and the possibility of model mismatch. In addition, the classical scheme usin...

Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then, developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal theories that rest on principles fundamentally different from those underlying perception. In addition, perceptual approaches have become widely viewed as untenable because they are assumed to implement recording systems,...

The pseudorandom properties of a two dimensional “binary plattice” related to the Legendre symbol are studied.

The notion of mind as symbol processor is fundamental to AI and congitive science, but some connectionists are now arguing against it. Eliminative connectionism challenges the validity of formal symbol manipulation as a level of mental description. We review some of the claims that have been made, and argue that most connectionist models, especially those constructed by learning algorithms, are...

We describe experiments that probe the evolution of shear jammed states, occurring for packing fractions [symbol: see text](S) ≤ [symbol: see text] ≤ [symbol: see text] J, for frictional granular disks, where above [symbol: see text]J there are no stress-free static states. We use a novel shear apparatus that avoids the formation of inhomogeneities known as shear bands. This fixed [symbol: see ...

Motivated by the application of high-density data storage technologies, symbol-pair codes are proposed to protect against pair-errors in symbol-pair channels, whose outputs are overlapping pairs of symbols. The research of symbol-pair codes with large minimum pair-distance is interesting since such codes have the best possible error-correcting capability. A symbol-pair code attaining maximal mi...

It is known that the 3-manifold SL(2,Z)\ SL(2,R) is diffeomorphic to the complement of the trefoil knot in S. E. Ghys showed that the linking number of this trefoil knot with a modular knot is given by the Rademacher symbol, which is a homogenization of the classical Dedekind symbol. The Dedekind symbol arose historically in the transformation formula of the logarithm of Dedekind’s eta function...

Titchener (1928) suggested that briefly glancing at a scene could make it appear strangely familiar when it was fully processed moments later. The closest laboratory demonstration used words as stimuli, and showed that briefly glancing at a to-be-judged word increased the subject's belief that it had been presented in an earlier study list (Jacoby & Whitehouse, 1989). We evaluated whether a has...