Possibilities for a fine-grained and objective measurement of individual differences in musical abilities are limited at present. A common approach to determining musical competence therefore is to rely on information about the extent of individuals’ musical training. Yet relying on musicianship fails to identify musically untrained individuals with musical skill. To counteract this limitation,...

The LCLS hard x-ray Free Electron Laser at SLAC reported first lasing in April of 2009. Since then two successful user runs have been completed at the two soft x-ray stations. The first hard x-ray station has started commissioning in July of 2010. Beam diagnostics play an essential role for tuning the machine and delivering the requested beam properties to the users. An overview of the LCLS pho...

I review the recent 5D self-tuning solutions of the cosmological constant problem, and try to unify two cosmological constant problems within the framework of the self-tuning solutions. One problem, the large cosmological constant needed for inflation, is interpreted by starting with the parameters allowing only the dS vacuum, and the vanishing cosmological constant at a true vacuum is realized...

We find more self-tuning solutions by introducing a general form for Lagrangian of a 3-index antisymmetric tensor field AMNP in the RS II model. In particular, for the logarithmic Lagrangian, ∝ log(−H2), we obtained a closed form weak self-tuning solution. [

Modern medical diagnosis systems very often accumulate numerous data. These computer medical support systems are used in monitoring and diagnosis, which require the various tools to interpret captured parameters. In the paper the new type of the computer medical support system has been presented. The system uses diagnostic conclusion method based on a similarity between the patient’s condition ...

Human-robot musical interaction typically consists of independent, physically-separated agents. We developed Cyther a human-playable, self-tuning robotic zither – to allow a human and a robot to interact cooperatively through the same physical medium to generate music. The resultant codependence creates new responsibilities, roles, and expressive possibilities for human musicians. We describe s...

Als Teilgebiet des Self-Tunings in Datenbankmanegementsysteme wird das Ziel verfolgt, die Indexoder Design Advisor [1, 6] der aktuellen DBMS so abzuändern, daß bezüglich der Indexkonfiguration ein sich selbst überwachendes und tunendes DBMS entsteht. Dabei sollen weitgehend die bisherigen statischen Ansätze der Advisor genutzt werden, diese aber in einem dynamischen und autonomen Kontext Verwen...

We introduce a new brane-world model in which the bulk solution consists of outgoing plane waves. This is an exact solution to string theory with no naked singularities. The recently discussed self-tuning mechanism to cancel the cosmological constant on a brane is naturally incorporated. We show that even if the vacuum energy on the brane changes, e.g. due to a phase transition, the brane geome...

We find more self-tuning solutions by introducing a general form for Lagrangian of a 3-index antisymmetric tensor field AMNP in the RS II model. In particular, for the logarithmic Lagrangian, ∝ log(−H2), we obtained a closed form weak self-tuning solution.

Experimental evidences [1-5] indicate that orientation selectivity develops in the absence of visual experience. Here, we present a model for pre-eye opening development of orientation selectivity. The model essentially models layer IV cortical cells and confirms the poor orientation tuning observed in layer IV ceCls. We also show that post synaptic potential to spike transformation indeed play...