Time-varying discrete-time linear systems may be temporarily uncontrollable and unreconstructable. This is vital knowledge to both control engineers and system scientists. Describing and detecting the temporal loss of controllability and reconstructability requires considering discrete-time systems with variable dimensions and the j-step, k-step Kalman decomposition. In this note for linear dis...

How does temporal selection work, and along what dimensions does it vary from one instance to the next? We explored these questions using a phenomenon in which temporal selection goes awry. In the attentional blink, subjects fail to report the second of a pair of targets (T1 and T2) when they are presented at stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) of roughly 200 to 500 ms. We directly tested the pr...

In a past study the authors drew attention to the fact that time-varying discrete-time linear systems may be temporarily uncontrollable and unreconstructable and that this is vital knowledge for both control engineers and system scientists. Describing and detecting the temporal loss of controllability and reconstructability requires considering discrete-time systems with variable dimensions and...

DEFINITION A bi-temporal index is a data structure that supports both temporal time dimensions, namely, transactiontime (the time when a fact is stored in the database) and valid-time (the time when a fact becomes valid in reality). The characteristics of the time dimensions supported imply various properties that the bi-temporal index should have to be efficient. As traditional indices, the pe...

Interaction with everyday objects requires the representation of conceptual object properties, such as where and how an object is used. What are the neural mechanisms that support this knowledge? While research on semantic dementia has provided evidence for a critical role of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) in object knowledge, fMRI studies using univariate analysis have primarily implicated...

Natural sounds can be characterised by their spectral content and temporal modulation, but how the brain is organized to analyse these two critical sound dimensions remains uncertain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we demonstrate a topographical representation of amplitude modulation rate in the auditory cortex of awake macaques. The representation of this temporal dimension is or...

This paper presents a temporal model of video for video retrieval systems. Time is the dimension that plays an essential role in the perception of video document content. The modelling of the different temporal characteristics of the video content is however a complicated problem. Our approach to this problem has consisted of distinguishing two different dimensions of time for video documents: ...