Abstract Aims Host-mediated effects on hemiparasitic mistletoes were hypothesized to contribute reproductive phenological asynchrony, thus providing a longer period of food supply its mutualistic pollinators and dispersers. However, studies with empirical data interrogating this hypothesis are lacking. Methods Weekly monitoring flowering fruiting patterns generalist mistletoe Dendrophthoe penta...

Session types have been proposed as a means of statically verifying implementations of communication protocols. Although prior work has been successful for some classes of protocols, it does not cope well with parameterized, multiactor scenarios with inherent asynchrony. For example, the sliding window protocol is not expressible in previously proposed session type notations. This article defin...

We are proposing a distributed algorithm to increase the transmission rate whenever possible and decrease the rate when too much error is encountered for a system with tight real time constraint and communicating elements so that the tolerance of the system to the message losses is very limited. The transmission bauds are pre-quantized and is known to both transmitter and receiver. Due to the u...

Asynchrony is increasingly important for high performance on modern parallel machines. A common approach to providing asynchrony in PGAS languages is to add additional language constructs to support asynchronous execution. In this paper we describe Multiphase Shared Arrays (MSA), a restricted PGAS programming model that takes the opposite approach, layering PGAS semantics over a fundamentally a...

Session types have been proposed as a means of statically verifying implementations of communication protocols. Although prior work has been successful in verifying some classes of protocols, it does not cope well with parameterized, multi-actor scenarios with inherent asynchrony. For example, the sliding window protocol is inexpressible in previously proposed session type systems. This paper d...

For rapidly translating targets, vernier thresholds correspond to millisecond asynchronies between targets. The 'temporal hypothesis' is that these thresholds reflect the limiting sensitivity of asynchrony detectors. Previous studies showed that temporal thresholds are generally higher than vernier thresholds, but failed to reject the 'temporal hypothesis' because stimuli had differing spatiote...

Adaptation to temporal asynchrony between senses (audiovisual and audiotactile) affects the subsequent simultaneity or temporal order judgment. Here, we investigated the effects of adaptation to temporal asynchrony between vision and touch. Participants experienced deformation of virtual objects with a fixed temporal lag between vision and touch. In subsequent trials, the visual and haptic stim...

Patients with idiopathic Parkinson syndrome and normally aged controls participated in a psychological refractory period experiment. Two tasks were presented on each trial: auditory discrimination of high versus low tones, followed by visual classification of letters versus their mirror images. Speeded responses to both tasks were required. Stimulus onset asynchrony between the tasks was varied...

We consider moving fronts and stationary “bumps” in networks of non-locally coupled phase oscillators. Fronts connect regions of high local synchrony with regions of complete asynchrony, while bumps consist of spatially-localised regions of partially-synchronous oscillators surrounded by complete asynchrony. Using the Ott-Antonsen ansatz we derive non-local differential equations which describe...

We report on ongoing work on a pronunciation model based on explicit representation of the evolution of multiple linguistic feature streams. In this type of model, most pronunciation variation is viewed as the result of asynchrony between features and changes in feature values. We have implemented such a model using dynamic Bayesian networks. In this paper, we extend our previous work with a me...