We examine how a toroidal sequence of the six fundamental colors affects human color impression. In order to investigate the different effects of spatial color sequences, we consider a hexagonal diagram that is a projection of RGB color space. The hexagonal diagram corresponds roughly to the hue circle indicated by both hue and saturation. The toroidal sequence is similar to the hue circle. The...

This paper presents a cost-effective sensor system for mattresses that can classify the sleeping posture of an individual and prevent pressure ulcers. This system applies projected capacitive sensing to the field of health care. The charge time (CT) method was used to sensitively and accurately measure the capacitance of the projected electrodes. The required characteristics of the projected ca...

Corticostriatal and corticoamygdalar projections arising from area TE of the macaque monkey were studied by focal injections of the anterograde tracer Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin into the dorsolateral and ventromedial subdivisions of the anterior TE (TEad and TEav, respectively). This approach yielded several new results. First, the global distributions of labeled terminals revealed that...

Projected climate change at a regional level is expected to shift vegetation habitat distributions over the next century. For the sub-alpine species whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis), warming temperatures may indirectly result in loss of suitable bioclimatic habitat, reducing its distribution within its historic range. This research focuses on understanding the patterns of spatiotemporal variab...

Plantinga, Andrew J.; Alig, Ralph J.; Eichman, Henry; Lewis, David J. 2007. Linking land-use projections and forest fragmentation analysis. Res. Pap. PNWRP-570. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Station. 41 p. An econometric model of private land-use decisions is used to project land use to 2030 for each county in the continental United States. On a...

The cortical afferents from individual laminae of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) were studied using both light and electron microscope autoradiography. In area 17, the A geniculate laminae (A and A1) had two main bands of projection, one extending from the bottom of IVc to the deepest cells in layer III, and one in layer VI. The C geniculate laminae projected in two dense bands to ...

We establish a relationship between general constrained pseudoconvex optimization problems and globally projected dynamical systems. A corresponding novel neural network model, which is globally convergent and stable in the sense of Lyapunov, is proposed. Both theoretical and numerical approaches are considered. Numerical simulations for three constrained nonlinear optimization problems a...