We take temporal reasoning to be the problem of ma in ta i n i ng a set of constraints between t i m e po in ts a n d / o r intervals, and responding to queries about the tempora l separat i on between those ind iv idua ls . Forma l invest i gat ions of th is constra int -sat is fact ion p rob lem have demonst ra ted tradeoffs between the expressive power of the constra int language and the t i...

O n Jan. 1, the University of Minnesota launched a major overhaul of its institutional review boards (IRBs) with the goal of increasing efficiency, quality, and — most importantly for many IRB critics — the speed with which it reviews new clinical trial protocols. The reforms represent one approach to fi xing the problems that have been plaguing IRBs everywhere for more than a decade. Charged w...

The effects of various cholinergic agonists and antagonists and their interactions were determined on the awake-sleep cycle of cats with chronic indwelling brain electrodes. The effects were measured by the use of the EEG and correlated with gross behavioral observation. EEG recordinxs were taken from various neocortical and limbic structures, ~cluding the amygdala and hi~pocampus. EEG activati...

DOI: 10.1002/admi.201600780 coat uniform electron beam resist on nonflat surfaces. Unlike spin-coating technique, spray coating method,[14] and Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) technique[15] may be employed to coat resist on nonplanar surfaces, but they have several limitations including sample should be free from sharp corners or edges for spray coating, and very few materials are usable as e-beam resis...

DOI: 10.1002/admi.201500762 temperature, and solution processability makes it possible for the realization of a high throughput, roll-to-roll production process of high effi ciency photovoltaics, thus ending the gap between academic prototypes and industrial standards. While the prospect of harnessing these advantageous properties makes perovskites ideal candidates for next generation solar cel...

DOI: 10.1002/admi.201600621 orientations in thin films. First of all, elucidating the effect of excited state delocalization, including singlet excitons, triplet excitons, and charge transfer states, on charge generation and recombination processes in crystalline thin films and molecular heterointerfaces requires controlled access to varied molecular orientations. A lying-down orientation provi...

and the inability to tune the size of the features independent of the mold. Here, we seek to employ soft lithography to develop robust chemically bound coatings with microscale surface features of tunable heights. This paper describes the combination of soft lithographic molding and a surfaceinitiated polymerization (SIP) to produce a versatile process termed micromolding surface-initiated poly...

The aim of this study was to develop a sy stem for and determine the feas ibility of monitoring home exercise for physically inact ive old er adul ts using a Heal th Bud dy (H B) text m essaging devi ce (R obert Bosch Healthcare; Palo Alto, California). Questions and messages related to exercise adher ence are displayed on the HB screen and participants choose a response by pressing the corresp...

Since Konol ige's t ranslat ion of default logic i n to st rongly grounded autoepistemic logic, several other variants of Moore's or ig inal autoepistemic logic tha t embody default logic have been s tud ied. A l l these logics differ signif icant ly f rom Moore's autoepistemic logic (stan dard A E L ) in tha t expansions are subject to add i t iona l groundedness-coridit ioris. Hence, the ques...