CIRCUIT CELLAR www.circuitcellar.com The mechanical components that make up robots aren’t getting much cheaper. That’s the bad news. The good news, of course, is that electronics and processors continue their steady march toward higher performance and lower cost. As an engineer, you have to figure out how to use the extra resources and capabilities most effectively. In some cases, extra process...

In general, the evaluation of player performance in test cricket is based on measures such as batting and bowling averages. These measures have a number of limitations, among which is that they fail to take into account the context in which runs are made or conceded and wickets are taken or given away. Furthermore, batting and bowling averages do not allow the comparison of performances in thes...

A PIM-SM-built multicast tree must be restructured/recovered when the underlying unicast routing tables change. In this article we describe the PIM-SM recovery mechanisms and evaluate the recovery performance, showing its dependence on a range of network and session parameters. Our results show that a significant recovery performance improvement is possible if the multicast recovery is immediat...

Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004, On-line. Brotchie PR, Andersen RA, Snyder LH, Goodman SJ. Head position signals used by parietal neurons to encode locations of visual stimuli. Nature

1Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Genética e Evolução. Rodovia Washington Luís (SP 310) Km 235, 13565-905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil. 2Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Rua Universitária 2069, 85819-110 Cascavel, PR, Brazil. [email protected] 3Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da ...

Author profiling consists of predicting some author’s characteristics (e.g. age, gender, personality) from her writing. After addressing at PAN@CLEF mainly age and gender identification, and also personality recognition in Twitter, in this PAN@FIRE track on Personality Recognition from SOurce COde (PR-SOCO) we have addressed the problem of predicting author’s personality traits from her source ...

This paper explores the dimensions of emotion conveyed by music. Participants rated emotion terms after seeing and/or hearing recordings of clarinet performances that varied in expressive content. A factor analysis revealed four independent dimensions of emotion. Changes to the clarinetists' expressive intentions did not significantly affect emotions conveyed by sound. It was largely through th...

M. S. Santos, J. D. Szezech Jr, F. S. Borges, K. C. Iarosz, I. L. Caldas, A. M. Batista, R. L. Viana, J. Kurths Pós-Graduação em Ciências, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil. Departamento de Matemática e Estat́ıstica, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil. Instituto de F́ısica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Departamento de...

This paper uses a case study of the 1993 Russian parliamentary elections to explore the influence of proportional representation and plurality electoral systems on party formation in a post-communist regime. The mixed PR-plurality electoral system used by Russia in the 1993 elections is a particularly useful case for such analysis for it allows the simultaneous study of these two electoral syst...

1DDS, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, Dental School, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. 2DDS, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, Bauru Dental School, University of São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil. 3DDS, MSc, Ph.D Student, Department of Operative Dentistry, Bauru Dental School, University of São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil. 4Dental tec...