DDF is an ONR-funded effort to evaluate the possible role of Covariance Intersection (CI) in future naval network-centric warfare (NCW) systems. Such systems, based on the concept of a plug-and-play information grid, are expected to yield key operational advantages, e.g., robustness and flexibility. In order to deliver these advantages, NCW systems require an effective way to control the data i...

BACKGROUND Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) regularly experience homophobic discrimination and stigma. While previous research has examined homophobic and HIV-related intergroup stigma originating from non-MSM directed at MSM, less is known about intragroup stigma originating from within MSM communities. While some research has examined intragroup stigma, this research h...

OBJECTIVE We examined developmental aspects of the emotional awareness of adolescents by evaluating their responses to a self-reported questionnaire based on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20). METHODS The items of the TAS-20 were modified to make them more understandable by adolescents, and nine new items related to a limited capacity for imagination were added. The Japanese Linguisti...

The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) was used for simulation of a gas flow and conjugate heat transfer in fixed packed beds with solid particles inside. D2Q9 version of the Factorized Central Moment (FCMLBM) is used for a gas flow computation. Heating transfer in the bed is described by second distribution function set and multiple relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method (DDF MRT LBM) is used. N...

The objective of the autonomous navigation and sensing experiment research (ANSER) project is to demonstrate decentralized data fusion (DDF) and simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) across multiple uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs). To achieve this objective, the project specifies the development of four UAVs, where each UAV houses up to two terrain sensors and an INS/GPS navigation ...

Humans spend much of their time engaged in stimulus-independent thoughts, colloquially known as "daydreaming" or "mind-wandering." A fundamental question concerns how awake, spontaneous brain activity represents the ongoing cognition of daydreaming versus unconscious processes characterized as "intrinsic." Since daydreaming involves brief cognitive events that spontaneously fluctuate, we tested...

We propose novel cooperative protocols for various coherent flat-fading channels composed of half-duplex nodes. We consider relay, cooperative broadcast (CB), multiple-access relay (MAR) and cooperative multiple-access (CMA) channels and devise efficient protocols for them. We also present automatic repeat request (ARQ) variants of these protocols. We evaluate the proposed protocols using the d...

Single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) (4) is the most widely used DNA screening method. SSCP detects single-base sequence changes by abnormal electrophoretic migration of one or both single strands on a nondenaturing gel. The method does not detect all sequence changes, and the sensitivity is a complex function of sequence context and size (1). Dideoxy fingerprinting (ddF) and bi-direc...