This chapter presents a set of findings about the dynamics of bi-stable alternations in the perception of plaids. A plaid is a pattern comprised of two superimposed gratings. When the plaid is set in motion, it becomes an ambiguous stimulus: it can be seen as one pattern moving in a single direction (“coherency”), or as two gratings, each moving in different directions with one sliding over the...

1 In natural traffic flow, the information from preceding vehicles determines driver behavior predominantly. 2 With the availability of connected vehicle technologies (CVT), drivers can receive information from both 3 preceding and following vehicles. This creates new opportunities for vehicle coordination and control at 4 the microscopic level based on bi-directional information. Although the ...

The synthesis of nanoscaled β-Bi(2)O(3) starting from the bismuth oxido clusters [Bi(6)O(4)(OH)(4)](NO(3))(6)·H(2)O, [Bi(22)O(26)(OSiMe(2)(t)Bu)(14)], [Bi(38)O(45)(NO(3))(20)(DMSO)(28)](NO(3))(4)·4DMSO and [Bi(38)O(45)(OMc)(24)(DMSO)(9)]·2DMSO·7H(2)O (OMc = O(2)CC(3)H(5)) under ambient conditions is reported. The metal oxido clusters are regarded as ideal precursors for β-Bi(2)O(3) due to their...

Recent predictions from competing theoretical models have disagreed about the stability/instability of bi-periodic patterns of surface waves on deep water. We present laboratory experiments to address this controversy. Growth rates of modulational perturbations are compared to predictions from: (i) inviscid coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equations, according to which the patterns are unsta...

in this paper, a robust pid control scheme is proposed for micro-electro-mechanical-systems(mems) optical switches. the proposed approach is designed in a way which solves twochallenging and important problems. the first one is successful reference tracking and the second ismitigating the system nonlinearities. the overall system composed of nonlinear mems dynamicsand the pid controller is prov...

Stability is of utmost importance to a wide range of phase-sensitive processing techniques. In Doppler optical coherence tomography and optical coherence elastography, in addition to defocus and aberration correction techniques such as interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy and computational/digital adaptive optics, a precise understanding of the system and sample stability helps to guid...

the decomposition $gamma=bh$ of a group $gamma$ into a subset $b$ and a subgroup $h$ of $gamma$ induces, under general conditions, a group-like structure for $b$, known as a gyrogroup. the famous concrete realization of a gyrogroup, which motivated the emergence of gyrogroups into the mainstream, is the space of all relativistically admissible velocities along with a binary operation given by t...

Aqueous Ca-(bi)carbonate organic associations with increased thermal stability.

Résumé. Dans cet article, nous proposons un système de classification des comptes-rendus mammographiques, reposant sur une ontologie radiologique décrivant les signes radiologiques et les différentes classes de la classification ACR des systèmes BIRADS dans le langage OWL. Le système est conçu pour, extraire les faits issus des textes libres de comptes-rendus en étant dirigé par l’ontologie, pu...