A basic assumption of Signal Detection Theory is that decisions are made on the basis of likelihood ratios. In a preceding paper, Glanzer, Hilford, and Maloney (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 431-455, 2009) showed that the likelihood ratio assumption implies that three regularities will occur in recognition memory: (1) the Mirror Effect, (2) the Variance Effect, (3) the normalized Receiver ...

Human listeners can keep track of statistical regularities among temporally adjacent elements in both speech and musical streams. However, for speech streams, when statistical regularities occur among nonadjacent elements, only certain types of patterns are acquired. Here, using musical tone sequences, the authors investigate nonadjacent learning. When the elements were all similar in pitch ran...

The paper considers the process of hydrate-paraffin deposits formation in oil wells. Due to research with author's specially designed laboratory equipment – an experimental installation containing a technological unit and information-measuring system, most favorable pressure-temperature conditions hydrate wide range pressure (0.1–120 MPa) temperature (from –20 +80 °C) were determined. results m...

Regularities, or the conformity to unifying principles, are essential to the comprehensibility, manageability and reliability of large software systems, and should, therefore, be considered an important element of their architecture. But, as is argued in this paper, the inherent globality of regularities makes them very hard to implement in traditional methods. This paper explores an approach t...

The human brain is constantly predicting the auditory environment by representing sequential similarities and extracting temporal regularities. It has been proposed that simple auditory regularities are extracted at lower stations of the auditory cortex and more complex ones at other brain regions, such as the prefrontal cortex. Deviations from auditory regularities elicit a family of early neg...

This thesis focuses on regularities, shared by within an object and among objects, to improve the quality of facade reconstruction from point cloud. There are three main objectives in the research. The first is to detect the wall and its holes, which represent existence of windows, intrusions or extrusions on the wall. Second, local regularities within one hole and global regularities shared am...