A bifield stimulation method for rapidly obtaining retinotopic maps in human occipital cortex using functional MRI was compared to conventional unifield stimulation. While maintaining central fixation, each participant viewed the conventional display, consisting of a single rotating checkerboard wedge and, in a separate run, the bifield display, consisting of two symmetrically placed rotating c...

Synergistic antifungal activity of 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) and amphotericin B was studied using an abbreviated checkerboard titration scheme. 5-FC was titrated in twofold increments (100 to 0.05 mug/ml) in the absence and presence of graded increments of amphotericin B (1.0. 0.5, 0.1, 0.05, and 0.01 mug/ml) in buffered yeast nitrogen base. A limited number of experiments were performed using ex...

As in the case of two-dimensional topology design optimization, numerical instability problems similar to the formation of two-dimensional checkerboard patterns occur if the standard eight-node conforming brick element is used. Motivated by the recent success of the two-dimensional non-conforming elements in completely eliminating checkerboard patterns, we aim at investigating the performance o...

We present the exact closed-form expression for the partition function of a dimer model on a generalized finite checkerboard rectangular lattice under periodic boundary conditions. We investigate three different sets of dimer weights, each with different critical behaviors. We then consider different limits for the model on the three lattices. In one limit, the model for each of the three latti...

The behaviour of pulses of Belousov-Zhabotinski (BZ) reaction-diffusion waves can be controlled automatically through machine learning. By extension, a form of chemical network computing, i.e., a massively parallel non-linear computer, can be realised by such an approach. In this initial study a light-sensitive sub-excitable BZ reaction in which a checkerboard image comprising of varying light ...

The competing orders in the particle-particle P-P channel and the particle-hole P-H channel have been proposed separately to explain the pseudogap physics in cuprates. By solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation self-consistently, we show that there is a general complementary connection between the d-wave-checkerboard DWCB order in the P-H channel and the pair-density-wave PDW order in the P-P...

Clobber is a new two-player board game. In this paper, we introduce the oneplayer variant Solitaire Clobber where the goal is to remove as many stones as possible from the board by alternating white and black moves. We show that a checkerboard configuration on a single row (or single column) can be reduced to about n/4 stones. For boards with at least two rows and two columns, we show that a ch...

This paper presents a stochastic direct search method for topology optimization of continuum structures. In a systematic approach requiring repeated evaluations of the objective function, the element exchange method (EEM) eliminates the less influential solid elements by switching them into void elements and converts the more influential void elements into solid resulting in an optimal 0–1 topo...

The correlation between signals acquired using electroencephalography (EEG) and fMRI was investigated in humans during visual stimulation. Evoked potential EEG and BOLD fMRI data were acquired independently under similar conditions from eight subjects during stimulation by a checkerboard flashed at frequencies ranging from 2-12 Hz. The results indicate highly correlated changes in the strength ...

Chromatic induction from a surrounding light is measured with an additional remote field outside the surround. Chromatic induction from the surround into a central test field is found to be attenuated by a remote inhomogeneous 'checkerboard', composed of squares at two different chromaticities. A uniform remote field, on the other hand, either at the average or at the most extreme chromaticity ...