Exploiting the analogy between exemplar models and population coding schemes, we characterize, by means of information theoretic tools, the efficiency of a large but finite population of cells coding for a discrete set of categories (e.g. vowels). The optimal code is shown to typically allocate more cells to class boundaries than to regions further apart. We then discuss the predicted perceptua...

A.S. 2010. The evidence base for community forest management as a mechanism for supplying global environmental benefits and improving local welfare. Environmental

In the early 1990s, the Malaysian government conceived of a new federal administrative capital built from a tabula rasa on former oil palm and rubber plantations called Putrajaya. It was designed to be the new home to all of Malaysia’s federal government ministries and national level civil servants, host all diplomatic activities for the country, and function as a potent symbol of the nation’s ...

This article discusses the processing of facial markers of prominence in spoken utterances. In particular, it investigates which area of a speaker’s face contains the strongest cues to prominence, using stimuli with the entire face visible or versions in which participants could only see the upper or lower half, or the right or left part of the face. To compensate for potential ceiling effects,...

1 Abstract This vignette shows the enhancements made for GlobalAncova. Basically, there are four ideas implemented: ˆ decomposition of the sum of squares of a linear model ([2]) ˆ a plotting function for the sequential decomposition ˆ pairwise comparison for factor levels ˆ adjustment for global covariates The decomposition of the model sum of squares results in an ANOVA table, which shows the ...

This paper presents a tutorial-style review on the recent results about the disturbance observer (DOB) in view of robust stabilization and recovery of the nominal performance. The analysis is based on the case when the bandwidth of Q-filter is large, and it is explained in a pedagogical manner that, even in the presence of plant uncertainties and disturbances, the behavior of real uncertain pla...

This paper proposes a procedure to compute abstractions of Discrete Event System (DES) models with the observer property (OP). The procedure, named OP-Search, is based on the OP-Verifier algorithm which verifies if a given natural projection has the observer property. In case OP fails for a projection in Σr of an automatonM , OP-Search modifiesM by relabelling transitions and incorporating the ...

This paper presents the frequency domain design of observer based compensators related to arbitrary observer orders for state reconstruction in direct equivalence to the well known time domain approach. The parameterization of the state feedback and of the state observer problems are possible without recurrence to the time domain representations of the system, however, the equivalent time domai...

AIMS Myocardial velocity imaging has been validated in adults for assessment of ventricular function and indirect indices of pulmonary arterial pressure. To establish whether it could also be used in infants, we investigated the reproducibility of myocardial velocities and deformation indices in term and preterm neonates. METHODS AND RESULTS Myocardial velocity loops acquired from 16 infants ...