This paper aims to outline findings from a research project that has investigated an initiative to stimulate youths to become more entrepreneurial. The concept of summer entrepreneur has been developed in the last decade in a Swedish county. It was developed out of the idea that youths should have a possibility to run their own companies as alternative to traditional summer vacation employments...

Much research has studied foundations for correct and reliable communication-centric systems. A salient approach to correctness uses session types to enforce structured communications; a recent approach to reliability uses reversible actions as a way of reacting to unanticipated events or failures. This note develops a simple observation: the machinery required to define asynchronous semantics ...

In this paper, we propose two procedures for accurate amplitude and phase estimation of multifrequency signals in rotating machinery. The first method reduces the amplitude attenuation and phase shift caused by the “nonflat” top of the main lobe of the window. The second procedure is able to reduce not only the leakage effects due to windowing but also the distortion that appears when the rotat...

In this paper I will present a summary of Turing’s article “Computing machinery and intelligence” [26] and discuss it. I retrace the ideas Turing presented in this paper and explain their historical context. Also, I discuss the impact Turing’s ideas had on the scientific community when the paper was published in 1950 as well as the meaning they still have today. Throughout this paper, I include...

The dependence of evoked and asynchronous release on intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) and presynaptic membrane potential was examined in single-release boutons of the crayfish opener neuromuscular junction. When a single bouton was depolarized by a train of pulses, [Ca2+]i increased to different levels according to the frequency of stimulation. Concomitant measurements of evoked release and asyn...

Ravin, R., H. Parnas, M. E. Spira, and I. Parnas. Partial uncoupling of neurotransmitter release from [Ca]i by membrane hyperpolarization. J. Neurophysiol. 81: 3044–3053, 1999. The dependence of evoked and asynchronous release on intracellular calcium ([Ca]i) and presynaptic membrane potential was examined in single-release boutons of the crayfish opener neuromuscular junction. When a single bo...

In this study, solutions for machinery layout with the aim of reducing transportation costs will be discussed. To do this, imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), which is a very complicated and effective meta-heuristic algorithm is introduced. In the offered algorithm, different kinds of machinery layout are considered in single-row as country and then the best possible layout is developed ba...

The paper introduces the concept of asynchronous pseudo-system. Its purpose is to correct/generalize/continue the study of the asynchronous systems (the models of the asynchronous circuits) that has been started in [1], [2].