In the last years, the trade-off between flexibility and support has become a leading issue in workflow technology. In this paper we show how an imperative modeling approach used to define stable and well-understood processes can be complemented by a modeling approach that enables automatic process adaptation and exploits planning techniques to deal with environmental changes and exceptions tha...

BACKGROUND There is a general perception that train drivers and conductors may be at increased risk of developing noise-induced hearing loss. AIMS To study job-related hearing loss among train drivers and train conductors. METHODS Audiograms from train drivers and train conductors were obtained from the medical records of the occupational health service of the major Norwegian railway compan...

Information theory is playing an increasingly important role in the analysis of neural data as it can precisely quantify the reliability of stimulus-response functions. Estimating the mutual information between a neural spike train and a time varying stimulus is, however, not trivial in practice and requires assumptions about the specific computations being performed by the neuron under study. ...

Paris, Gare de Lyon, 27 June, 1988, 18:47. A crowded suburban train is ready for departure when, suddenly, another train arrives in front of it. There is a crash with 56 dead and hundreds injured. Obviously the killer train had no brakes. Why? The French government immediately set up a commission to analyse the disaster. This commission published its analysis in a report in September 1988 [1]. ...

At the single-neuron level, precisely timed spikes can either constitute firing-rate codes or spike-pattern codes that utilize the relative timing between consecutive spikes. There has been little experimental support for the hypothesis that such temporal patterns contribute substantially to information transmission. By using grasshopper auditory receptors as a model system, we show that correl...

When dealing with classical spike train analysis, the practitioner often performs goodness-of-fit tests to test whether the observed process is a Poisson process, for instance, or if it obeys another type of probabilistic model (Yana et al. in Biophys. J. 46(3):323-330, 1984; Brown et al. in Neural Comput. 14(2):325-346, 2002; Pouzat and Chaffiol in Technical report, http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:...

introduction: although hippocampus is the most famous brain area involved in temporal lobe epilepsy, hippocampal kindling (hk) develops very slowly. hence, rapid kindling is usually preferred to the traditional kindling and it is widely used. in this article we aimed at finding the optimal stimulus pattern, which yields the fastest hk rate. methods: stimulus patterns with different duration (2,...