Methods of functional brain imaging have been used to identify brain structures which are active during internal simulation of movements (ISM). Between 1977 and 1993 it was consistently reported that the primary motor cortex (MI) is not active during ISM whereas other cortical areas, in particular the supplementary motor area (SMA) are active. ISM was assumed to be a situation of "internal prog...

3 The Copernicus Era 17 3.1 Cloudy Sightlines: ζ Oph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.2 Intercloud Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.3 Deuterium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.4 Molecular Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3.5 The Distrib...

Ideas by Statistical Mechanics (ISM) is a generic program to model evolution and propagation of ideas/patterns throughout populations subjected to endogenous and exogenous interactions. The program is based on the author’s work in Statistical Mechanics of Neocortical Interactions (SMNI), and uses the author’s Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) code for optimizations of training sets, as well as...

We present a preliminary study of using the template of an ensemble of evolving shells we developed for M 82 (Yao 2009). we apply the model to represent various stages of starburst evolution in a well known sample of nearby luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs). In this way, we attempt to interpret the relationship between the degree of molecular excitation and ratio of far-infrared (FIR) to CO lu...

Purpose – Despite many technically sophisticated solutions, managing information security has remained a persistent challenge for organizations. Emerging IT/ICT media have posed new security challenges to business information and information assets. It is felt that technical solutions alone are not sufficient to address the information security challenge. It has been argued that organizations a...

Radiative transfer equilibrium models of nearby interstellar matter (ISM) are required to determine the boundary conditions of the heliosphere from astronomical observations of nearby stars. These models are also constrained by data on the ISM inside of the solar system, including pickup ion, anomalous cosmic rays, and in situ He data. The two best ISM models give semi-empirical filtration fact...

We have discovered a bow shock shaped mid-infrared excess region in front of δ Velorum using 24 μm observations obtained with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). The excess has been classified as a debris disk from previous infrared observations. Although the bow shock morphology was only detected in the 24 μm observations, its excess was also resolved at 70 μm. We show that th...

Human factors are increasingly recognized as real culprits of failures in Information Security Management (ISM). Thus, the roles of Human Resource Management (HRM) become more salient with ISM. Unlike practitioners, researchers appear reluctant to acknowledge such emergence. Prior literature has not attempted to link ISM with HRM theoretically. ISM literature suggests that both technical and no...

We have used the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite to map the ground-state 110 → 101 transition of ortho-H2O at 557 GHz in the Orion molecular cloud. H2O emission was detected in Orion over an angular extent of about 20, or nearly 3 pc. The water emission is relatively weak, with line widths (3–6 km s−1) and VLSR velocities (9–11 km s−1) consistent with an origin in the cold gas of the mol...