There is evidence that experience of the sensory consequences, in the absence of practice of the required motor commands, is sufficient to learn new bimanual coordination patterns. This was shown through improvements of an incongruent group who practiced a desired 30 degrees phase offset between the limbs while 1 limb was weighted such that the desired phase relation was achieved when synchrono...

We extend the framework of simple temporal problems studied originally by Dechter, Meiri and Pearl to consider constraints of the form x1 − y1 6 r1 ∨ · · · ∨ xn − yn 6 rn, where x1, . . . , xn, y1, . . . , yn are variables ranging over the real numbers, r1, . . . , rn are real constants, and n> 1. This is a wide class of temporal constraints that can be used to model a variety of problems in te...

The business model literature is both rich and rapidly-growing. Authors identify special-purpose business and eBusiness models – and, increasingly, develop taxonomies of business models types. But, in searching for a comparatively simple way to understand the components of a “typical” internet business model, as part of our work for the EC research project SimWeb, we found that these taxonomies...

We present an effective method for tailoring the flexibility of a commercial thin-film polymer electrode array for intracochlear electrical stimulation. Using a pneumatically driven dispensing system, an average 232 ± 64 μm (mean ± SD) thickness layer of silicone adhesive coating was applied to stiffen the underside of polyimide multisite arrays. Additional silicone was applied to the tip to pr...

In this chapter, we present Motion Assisted Steering Kernel (MASK) regression, a novel multi-frame approach for interpolating video data spatially, temporally, or spatiotemporally, and for video noise reduction, including compression artifact removal. The MASK method takes both local spatial orientations and local motion vectors into account and adaptively constructs a suitable filter at every ...

A unique feature of the OFDM communication scheme is that, due to the IFFT at the transmitter and the FFT at the receiver, the frequency selective fading channel is converted into flat fading channels. However the OFDM approach can suffer from CFO (Leke and Cioffi 1998). The effects of CFO has been analyzed quite extensively in Beek et al (1997) and Jungwon Lee et al (2006). Carrier Frequency e...

We present a planning model for chemical commodities related to an industry case. Commodities are standard chemicals characterized by sales and supply volatility in volume and value. Increasing and volatile prices of crude oil-dependent raw materials require coordination of sales and supply decisions by volume and value throughout the value chain to ensure profitability. Contract and spot deman...

Although the deep affinity between Graphplan’s backward search, and the process of solving constraint satisfaction problems has been noted earlier, these relations have hither-to been primarily used to adapt CSP search techniques into the backward search phase of Graphplan. This paper describes GP-CSP, a system that does planning by automatically converting Graphplan’s planning graph into a CSP...

To cite: van Beek D, Fernandes N, Hazekamp M, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014205463 DESCRIPTION An 11-month-old male child with Down syndrome was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) after an uncomplicated correction of his complete atrioventricular septal defect. On postoperative day 5, there was an acute incident after...