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Tupling of function results is a well-known technique in functional programming to avoid multiple traversals over the same data. When expressing these programs as attribute grammars, function results are expressed as shared attributes for which tupling is done automatically. In this paper we show how we can get tupling for free by using attribute grammars as an intermediate language. We evaluat...

Physicians who counsel women for preconception concerns are in an excellent position to give advice to couples regarding the optimal timing of intercourse to achieve pregnancy. The currently available evidence suggests that methods that prospectively identify the window of fertility are likely to be more effective for optimally timing intercourse than calendar calculations or basal body tempera...

Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' movements and positions. Recent advancements in automated tracking technologies, including computer vision and GPS, now allow researchers to gather large amounts of data on the movements and positions of individuals in group...

The paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, which is considered to be a centre for autonomic regulation, has been shown to exhibit physiological and functional sex differences. It is involved in numerous functions, from stress to the appetite, body energy balance, blood pressure, heart rate and sexual activity, including penile erection [1], and is characterised by a very complex arc...

ions for Composite Activities Information management in the large involves three main concerns, which must be addressed by any approach for constructing solutions: • data integrity and flow: correctness of data and how it is conveyed from one party to another • organizational structure: how the various parties relate to each other • autonomy: how the autonomy of the different parties is preserv...

Transmission of information reliably and efficiently across channels is one of the fundamental goals of coding and information theory. In this respect, efficiently decodable deterministic coding schemes which achieve capacity provably have been elusive until as recent as 2008, even though schemes which come close to it in practice existed. This survey tries to give the interested reader an over...

In animating an articulated entity with motion capture data, if the reconstruction is based on forward kinematics, there could be a large error in the ende ector position. The inaccuracy becomes conspicuous when the entity makes interactions with the environment or other entities. The frames at which the end-e ector position needs to be accurate are designated as "keyframes" (e.g. the impact mo...

The use of microwave heating to initiate combustion synthesis has been increasingly investigated in recent years because of its advantages over traditional methods. A simple mathematical model is used to model these experiments. The microwave power absorption term is modelled as the product of an Arrhenius reaction term with a function that decays exponentially with distance. The former represe...