Loop quantum cosmology provides a nice solution of avoiding the big bang singularity through a big bounce mechanism in the high energy region. In loop quantum cosmology an inflationary universe is emergent after the big bounce, no matter what matter component is filled in the universe. A super-inflation phase without phantom matter will appear in a certain way in the initial stage after the bou...

When the sensory consequences of an action are systematically altered our brain can recalibrate the mappings between sensory cues and properties of our environment. This recalibration can be driven by both cue conflicts and altered sensory statistics, but neither mechanism offers a way for cues to be calibrated so they provide accurate information about the world, as sensory cues carry no infor...

Up to date urban mapping and population data are required by policy makers, economists and planners in the developing world, and particularly for cities in South Asia, Latin America and Africa, to enable informed decision making. For many of these regions (particularly in the tropics) the all-weather capability of spaceborne imaging radar could prove to be a reliable and systematic monitoring t...

Design complexity is increasing day by day in modern digital systems. Due to reconfigurable architecture, low non recurring engineering (NRE) and ease of design field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) become a better solution for managing increasing design complexity. Due to scaling trends FPGA uses more transistors which increase the leakage current. FPGAs are well suited for wireless applicatio...

1 certainly provoked some controversy. Are the devotees of exercise on a hapless mission to postpone death? A starting point may be that anthropologists tell us that man was born to run and was built for persistence high endurance running. 2 This article now seems strangely old fashioned but it did set some high ideals. Bannister was cautious in stating that there was no proven link between exe...

In order to assess the potentiality of ALOS L-band fully polarimetric radar data for forestry applications, we investigated a four-component decomposition method to characterize the polarization response of Siberian forest. The decomposition powers of surface scattering, double-bounce and volume scattering, derived with and without rotation of coherency matrix, were compared with Growing Stock ...

In this paper, we present a new type of button, choreographic button, and an interactive art installation, Bounce, Duck, Pogo, Dive, to highlight features and abilities of this new type of button. A person’s presence in an environment is often determined by physical movements. Emotional presence can be delivered by physical action as well. A person’s movement can convey a specific meaning to ot...

For the past five years, I have been engaged with the rap music scene of New Orleans, where a local subgenre called "bounce" has coexisted with more mainstream expressions since the early 1990s. Bounce is a form of rap music that is heavily oriented towards dancing, which uses particular sonic markers in the form of samples and tempi as well as a call-and-response form of rapping based upon hoo...