In this paper we relate the Fefferman–Graham ambient metric construction for conformal manifolds to the approach to conformal geometry via the canonical Cartan connection. We show that from any ambient metric that satisfies a weakening of the usual normalisation condition, one can construct the conformal standard tractor bundle and the normal standard tractor connection, which are equivalent to...

This study investigated if familiarity with a language that an emotion is expressed in, affects how information from the different sensory modalities are weighed in auditory-visual (AV) processing. The rationale for this study is that visual information may drive multisensory perception of emotion when a person is unfamiliar with a language, and this visual dominance effect may be reduced when ...

The n-skeleton of the canonical cubulation C of R into unit cubes is called the canonical scaffolding S. In this paper, we prove that any smooth knot can be continuously isotoped by an ambient isotopy of R to a knot contained in S.

where CM(Ag,1) is the set of CM points on this moduli space, and where T 0 g is the open Torelli locus. We explain that, using the AO conjecture, see below, the Coleman conjecture can be translated into a question of the existence of special subvarieties in the Torelli locus. We present examples and theorems. However the main message is: there are still more open problems than answers. The main...

In biological phenomena like osmosis, the rate of flow of water molecules in or out of biological compartments depends on the solute concentration and on other forces, like hydrostatic pressure. A similar example is the passive transport of ions in and out the cell membrane. In this paper, we address the problem of faithfully modelling these kind of phenomena with an adequate process calculus. ...

Agent-oriented methodologies frequently make use of terms such as goal and task but do so in an inconsistent manner. We seek to rationalize the use of these terms by undertaking an etymological and metamodel-based analysis of a significant number of these AO methodologies and recommend that the word task be avoided; instead, the word action could be usefully employed to describe the work done t...

ions for Context-Aware Object References, Van Cutsem, Dedecker, Mostinckx and De Meuter

This study investigates neural processes underlying audiovisual perception of a non-native vowel contrast using fMRI. Eight native Japanese and eight native English speakers participated in the study. The two-alternative forced choice task was to identify which vowel was present in the CVC English word presented under audiovisual (AV) and audio only (AO) conditions. Three sessions were conducte...

Elder care poses an increasingly demanding issue that every aging society has to address. The notion of Ambient Assisted Living aims to solve the issue by promoting the idea of ageing at home through innovative ICT technology. The core technology relies on the real-time identification of occupant’s status and prompt notification to supporting service providers before pertinent measures can be t...