This thesis examines the context effects on retrieval, and the influence of action on the representation of distance in cognitive maps. It is proposed that bias in distance estimation is a function of the contexts of retrieval that trigger the representation of action in memory during evaluation tasks. The proposal is consistent with embodied cognition evidence that suggests that actions are im...

logic map of Northeast Gale crater. Solid and patterned shapes represent unique geologic units identified through morphological classifications using HiRISE and CTX. Blue and green outlines indicate identification of mafic and hydrated mineral phases found through the use of CRISM. STRATIGRAPHY OF THE GALE CRATER RIM AND FLOOR UNITS. J. Buz 1 and B. L. Ehlmann 1,2 , 1 Geological & Planetary Sci...

Based on the documentary sources and scientific papers of Soviet modern researchers, paper analyzed why industrialization Komi ASSR proceeded independently main strategic plans USSR. The first five-year development region did not take into account vector USSR aimed at a shift to new technological paradigm. wrong impressions about role in economic system allow archive actual potential region. co...

In this paper we describe a learning technique for reactive path-planning and guidance of autonomous robots using a Kohonen self-organizing neural network. The intended application is mineral exploration or agricultural monitoring using simple lowcost robots which do not contain a complete stored map of the environment, and may have unreliable sensor information. The network learns based on a s...

An attractive method of obtaining an effective cosmological constant at the present epoch is through the potential energy of a scalar field. Considering models with a perfect fluid and a scalar field, we classify all potentials for which the scalar field energy density scales as a power law of the scale factor when the perfect fluid density dominates. There are three possibilities. The first tw...

In this dissertation, I develop a framework to investigate the implications of Affirmative Action in college admissions on both study effort choice and college placement outcomes for high school students. I model the college admissions process as a Bayesian game where heterogeneous students compete for seats at colleges and universities of varying prestige. There is an allocation mechanism whic...

0167-8655/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2010.11.003 q Selected as best paper at Themis2008. ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +39 059 2056129. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (R. unimore.it (C. Grana), [email protected] (R. C AD-HOC (Appearance Driven Human tracking with Occlusion Classification) is a complete framework for multiple people tracking...

On 25 November 2016 (UTC 14:24:30), an Mw 6.6 dextral strike-slip earthquake ruptured Aketao county in the northwestern portion of the Kongur Shan extensional system, western China. We extracted surface deformation maps and investigated the distribution of the coseismic slip of the 2016 Aketao earthquake by exploiting the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar data imaged by the Sentinel-1 sa...

This paper investigates the stabilization of a novel subclass of impulsive hybrid systems (IHS) that feature controllable guards and resets maps. While the structure of the guards and the reset map is assumed to be completely determined from the physical set-up, both mappings are jointly adjustable through exogenous control inputs at run-time. As a core feature, all adjustments result in simult...