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The rapid development of volume graphics offers ample scope to develop new methods and tools for computer graphics and visualisation. This paper is concerned with methods for specifying and controlling complex transformations of volumetric data. A volume distortion algorithm is presented, which allows one volume to be distorted into another under the control of two sets of disk fields. The algo...

The authors agree with P. L. Ackerman, M. E. Beier, and M. O. Boyle (2005) that working memory capacity (WMC) is not isomorphic with general fluid intelligence (Gf) or reasoning ability. However, the WMC and Gf/reasoning constructs are more strongly associated than Ackerman et al. (2005) indicate, particularly when considering the outcomes of latent-variable studies. The authors’ reanalysis of ...

Banderier, Beier and Mehlhorn [BBM03] showed that the single-source shortest path problem has smoothed complexity w w "| | if the edge costs are -bit integers and the last least significant bits are perturbed randomly. Their analysis holds if each bit is set to or 6 with probability . We extend their result and show that the same analysis goes through for a large class of probability distributi...

The authors agree with P. L. Ackerman, M. E. Beier, and M. O. Boyle (2005; see record 2004-22408-002) that working memory capacity (WMC) is not isomorphic with general fluid intelligence (Gf) or reasoning ability. However, the WMC and Gf/reasoning constructs are more strongly associated than Ackerman et al. (2005) indicate, particularly when considering the outcomes of latent-variable studies. ...

We investigate the descriptional complexity of operations on semilinear sets. Roughly speaking, a semilinear set is the finite union of linear sets, which are built by constant and period vectors. The interesting parameters of a semilinear set are: (i) the maximal value that appears in the vectors of periods and constants and (ii) the number of such sets of periods and constants necessary to de...

Individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) typically predict reduced rates of mind-wandering during laboratory tasks (Randall, Oswald, & Beier, 2014). However, some studies have shown a positive relationship between WMC and mind-wandering during particularly low-demand tasks (Levinson, Smallwood, & Davidson, 2012; Rummel & Boywitt, 2014; Zavagnin, Borella, & De Beni, 2014). More sp...