This paper describes three models arising from the theory of excitable media, whose primary visual feature are expanding rings of excitation. Rigorous mathematical results and experimental/computational issues are both addressed. We start with the much{studied Greenberg{ Hastings model (GHM) in which the rings are very short{lived, but they do have a transient percolation property. By contrast,...

The concept of a hydraulic axis plays a central role within the design and analysis of hydraulic systems. A hydraulic axis comprises working, control, and supply elements that realize a subfunction of a hydraulic system. Analyzing a system’s functional structure means to identify the hydraulic axes along with their couplings. The paper in hand addresses this problem; it presents concepts and al...

Automatic Defect Analysis and Qualification (ADAQ) is a collection of automatic workflows developed for high-throughput simulations magneto-optical properties point defect in semiconductors. These handle the vast number defects by automating processes to relax unit cell host material, construct supercells, create clusters, execute calculations both electronic ground excited states. The main out...

A new formula for the composite Higgs boson mass is given, based on the WardTakahashi identity and the Schwinger-Dyson(SD) equation. In this formula the dominant asymptotic solution of the SD equation yields a correct answer, in sharp contrast to the Partially Conserved Dilatation Current(PCDC) approach where the suband sub-subdominant solutions should be taken into account carefully. In the ga...

We demonstrated that postural responses to imposed optic flow are to some extent voluntary. In a moving room, participants either stood normally or were instructed to resist any influence of visible motion on their stance. When participants attempted to resist, coupling of body sway with motion of the room was significantly greater than when the eyes were closed, but was significantly reduced r...

Clustering is very often used for the purpose of architectural reconstruction. This article proposes an approach of improving the quality of automatic software architecture reconstruction results. This work investigates the importance of taking into account the right factors for the similarity metric: the strength of direct coupling/cohesion between classes, indirect coupling as computed from t...

Speech translation is conventionally carried out by cascading an automatic speech recognition (ASR) and a statistical machine translation (SMT) system. The hypotheses chosen for translation are based on the ASR system’s acoustic and language model scores, and typically optimized for word error rate, ignoring the intended downstream use: automatic translation. In this paper, we present a coarset...

in this research, the decay resistance of bagasse-polypropylene composite has been evaluated. the scope of research was to assess the effect of different weight percentages of bagasse (40, 55 and 70%) and coupling agent, (mapp) maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (0, 4 and 6%) on the fungal decay of the composite. astm d1413-99 modified test method was used to carry out the decay test, trame...

Motivated by the psycholinguistic finding that human eye gaze is tightly linked to speech production, previous work has applied naturally occurring eye gaze for automatic vocabulary acquisition. However, unlike in the typical settings for psycholinguistic studies, eye gaze can serve different functions in human-machine conversation. Some gaze streams do not link to the content of the spoken utt...

The posterior cingulate cortex (pCC) often deactivates during complex tasks, and at rest is often only weakly correlated with regions that play a general role in the control of cognition. These observations led to the hypothesis that pCC contributes to automatic aspects of memory retrieval and cognition. Recent work, however, has suggested that the pCC may support both automatic and controlled ...