Abstract Research suggests that English-derived loanwords in Japanese can affect learners' acquisition and receptive knowledge of their English words origin (‘basewords'). This study adopts a corpus-based approach to expand on this research by exploring the effects productive knowledge. It primarily uses corpus written produced learners English, native speakers, samples from compare quantitativ...

Formal veri cation for complex concurrent systems is a computationally intensive and, in some cases, intractable process. The complexity is an inherent part of the veri cation process due to the system complexity that is an exponential function of the sizes of its components. However, some properties can be enforced by automatically synchronizing the components, thus eliminating the need for ve...

To examine the basis of frequency receptive fields in auditory cortex (ACx), we have recorded intracellular (whole cell) and extracellular (local field potential, LFP) responses to tones in anesthetized rats. Frequency receptive fields derived from excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) and LFPs from the same location resembled each other in terms of characteristic frequency (CF) and breadt...

This paper proposes a new method for the design, through simulated evolution, of biologically inspired receptive fields in feedforward neural networks (NNs). The method is intended to enhance pattern recognition performance by creating new neural architectures specifically tuned for a particular pattern recognition problem. It proposes a combined neural architecture composed of two networks in ...

The receptive fields of motor neurons to a hind leg were mapped by recording intracellularly from their cell bodies or from the muscle fibers they innervate while stimulating mechanoreceptors on the surface of that leg. Each motor neuron is affected by a specific array of receptors that make up its receptive field. Boundaries along the anteroposterior or dorsoventral axes of the leg divide the ...

Nearly 40 years ago, in the pages of this journal, Hubel and Wiesel provided the first description of receptive fields in the primary visual cortex of higher mammals. They defined two classes of cortical cells, "simple" and "complex", based on neural responses to simple visual stimuli. The notion of a hierarchy of receptive fields, where increasingly intricate receptive fields are constructed f...

Through a process of action research with non-religious organization, this article provides foundation for the characteristics secular discernment process. Importantly, we argue that can be conceptualized as entwined individual unlearning and collective relearning. Our study contributes to both literatures by unpacking how encourages – which our suggests entails ‘setting aside’ reflexive-distan...

Drawing on the notions of subjective knowledge (what someone thinks he/she knows about a topic) and receptivity (someone's ability, inclination, willingness to take in information, ideas, impressions or suggestions), we extend knowledge-attitudes-practice (KAP) model within an environmental sustainability policy (ESP) context: UK's single-use bag charge policy, specifically. Based cross-section...