Theories of auditory attention suggest that humans decompose complex auditory input into individual auditory objects, which then compete for attention to dominate auditory perception. Since emotional significance of external stimuli has been argued to provide cues for sensory prioritization and allocation of attention, emotionally salient auditory objects can receive attention to dominate audit...

The problem of network coding with multicast of a single source to multisink has first been studied by Ahlswede, Cai, Li and Yeung in 2000, in which they have established the celebrated max-flow mini-cut theorem on non-physical information flow over a network of independent channels. On the other hand, in 1980, Han has studied the case with correlated multisource and a single sink from the view...

Multisource multipath data routing to a remote sink node is an effective way to cope with unreliable and/or malicious nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper we analyze the optimal amount of redundancy in terms of the number of source sensors sensing the same physical phenomena and the number of paths through which data are routed to a remote sink node in the presence of unrelia...

The South-to-North Water Diversion Eastern Route Project (SNWDERP) of China is a large inter-basin water transfer project. It is an extremely complex process management of water resources allocation and scheduling for such a multi-basin, multisource, multi-objective complex engineering systems. The SNWDERP is difficult to accurately construct the mathematical model because this kind of complex ...

Multisource classification methods based on neural networks and statistical modeling are considered. For these methods, the individual data sources are at first treated separately and modeled by statistical methods. Then several decision fusion schemes are applied to combine the information from the individual data sources. These schemes include weighted consensus theory where the weights of th...

In this paper, we discuss a Markov Random Field (MR) modeling for multisource and multitemporal remotely sensed image fusion and classification. Satellite images provided by individual sensor are incomplete, inconsistent or imprecise. Additional sources may provide complementary information and the fusion of multisource data can create a more consistent interpretation of the scene in which the ...

Research examining the structure of multisource performance ratings has demonstrated that ratings are a direct function of both who is doing the rating (rating source) as well as what is being rated (performance dimension). A separate line of research has focused on the extent to which performance ratings are equivalent across sources. To date no research has examined the measurement equivalenc...

This article summarizes an evaluation of the Maximum Allowable Cost (MAC)-Estimated Acquisition Cost (EAC) program, the Federal Government's cost-containment program for prescription drugs. The MAC-EAC regulations which became effective on August 26, 1976, have four major components: (1) Maximum Allowable Cost reimbursement limits for selected multisource or generically available drugs; (2) Est...