BACKGROUND Horses show compensatory head movement in hindlimb lameness and compensatory pelvis movement in forelimb lameness but little is known about the relationship of withers movement symmetry with head and pelvic asymmetry in horses with naturally occurring gait asymmetries. OBJECTIVES To document head, withers and pelvic movement asymmetry and timing differences in horses with naturally...

This paper considers a timing game in which heterogeneously informed agents have the option to delay an investment strategically to learn about its uncertain return from the experience of others. I study the effects of information exchange through strategic delay on longrun beliefs and outcomes. Investment decisions are delayed when the information structure prohibits informational cascades. Wh...

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We consider oscillators coupled with asymmetric time delays, namely, when the speed of information transfer is direction dependent. As the coupling parameter is varied, there is a regime of amplitude death within which there is a phase-flip transition. At this transition the frequency changes discontinuously, but unlike the equal delay case when the relative phase difference changes by π, here ...

A parallel packet switch (PPS) is a switch in which the memories run slower than the line rate. Arriving packets are spread (or load-balanced) packet-by-packet over multiple slower-speed packet switches. It is already known that with a speedup of , a PPS can theoretically mimic a FCFS output-queued (OQ) switch. However, the theory relies on a centralized packet scheduling algorithm that is esse...

Instantaneous noise-based logic can avoid time-averaging, which implies significant potential for low-power parallel operations in beyond-Moore-law-chips. However, in its randomtelegraph-wave representation, the complete uniform superposition (superposition of all N-bit binary numbers) will be zero with high probability, that is, non-zero with exponentially low probability, thus operations with...

The relationship between species number and island area is a fundamental rule in ecology. However, the extent to which interactions with exotic species and how the structure of species interactions is related to island area remain unexplored. Here, I document the relationship between island area and (i) interactions with exotic species and (ii) network structure of species interactions in the c...

Manual dexterity declines with increasing age, however, the way in which inter-manual asymmetry responds to aging is unclear. Our purpose was to determine the effect of age and practice on inter-manual performance asymmetry in an isometric force pinch line tracing task that varied in difficulty within segments. Thirty right-handed participants, five males and five females in each of three age g...

Elmore delay has been widely used to estimate the interconnect delays in the performance-driven synthesis and layout of VLSI routing topologies. For typical RLC interconnections, Elmore delay can deviate signiicantly (by up to 33% or more) from SPICE-computed delay, since it is independent of inductance. Here, we develop an analytical delay model based on rst and second moments to incorporate i...