Humans' remarkable ability to quickly and accurately discriminate among thousands of highly similar complex objects demands rapid and precise neural computations. To elucidate the process by which this is achieved, we used magnetoencephalography to measure spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity with high temporal resolution during visual discrimination among a large and carefully controlled...

The complete amino acid sequence of dihydrofolate reductase from an amethopterin-resistant strain of Lactobacillus casei has been determined by sequence analysis of peptides produced by cleavage with cyanogen bromide, trypsin, staphylococcal protease, and myxobatter protease. Comparison of this sequence with those of reductases from other bacterial sources shows that the enzymes are homologous....

The complete amino acid sequence of dihydrofolate reductase from an amethopterin-resistant strain of Lactobacillus casei has been determined by sequence analysis of peptides produced by cleavage with cyanogen bromide, trypsin, staphylococcal protease, and myxobacter protease. Comparison of this sequence with those of reductases from other bacterial sources shows that the enzymes are homologous....

This paper introduces the concept of asserted resolution as a technique for entity resolution. In asserted resolution trusted information sources are used to force the equivalence (or non-equivalence) of entity references and identity structures regardless of matching conditions. The paper proposes five specific forms of assertion to support entity identity information management, the process o...

This paper highlights the problem of digital identity, or cross-set unique identifying tokens, inherent in the application of social software in business processes. As social software, via blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 software, starts to bring value to the enterprise, there is a need for a unified digital identity resource. From this basis, concepts of reputation and trust may be leveraged in...

We show that the distinction between Self and Other, ‘us’ and ‘them,’ or in-group and out-group, affects significantly economic and social behavior. In a series of experiments with approximately 200 Midwestern students as our subjects, we found that they favor those who are similar to them on any of a wide range of categories of identity over those who are not like them. Whereas family and kins...

In this article, we consider the growth of microorganisms on mixtures of carbon sources and characterize the consumer-resource relationship for this system. The characteristic features observed for the growth of a single microorganism on a pair of carbon sources allow a representation of this relationship based on a general paradigm for resource classification. This representation is verified u...