Set shifting difficulties and weak central coherence are information-processing biases associated with thinness-oriented eating and body image pathology in women. However, little is known about the relationship between these processing biases and muscularity-oriented eating and body image pathology. We investigated whether set shifting and central coherence were uniquely related to the drive fo...

The orientation selectivity of simple cells in visual cortex gives a striking example of the biological system perfectly adapted to the perception pf oriented stimuli. Several models have employed major principles of orientation selectivity for the processing of contrast variations in images. We have recently suggested a model for iterative orientation tuning, in which the astonishingly regular...

Systems Factorial Technology is a powerful framework for investigating the fundamental properties of human information processing such as architecture (i.e., serial or parallel processing) and capacity (how processing efficiency is affected by increased workload). The Survivor Interaction Contrast (SIC) and the Capacity Coefficient are effective measures in determining these underlying properti...

This paper reports “first cut” of the design of a distributed and object oriented geographic information system, DO-GIS, under development at I.I.T. Delhi. The paper deals with data model, architecture, query processing and data management in a GIS. Considering that geographical data includes information about spatial reference frame, topological connections and requires maintenance of physical...

Previous evidence has suggested a functional-anatomic dissociation between conscious and nonconscious processing during retrieval where early visual regions BA17/18 are associated with nonconscious processing and late visual regions BA19/37 are associated with conscious processing. However, evidence for this dissociation has only been observed using a limited number of experimental paradigms. I...

RG is an image processing system that allows sophisticated image processing operations to be defined by composing primitive image processing filters. An implementation of RG using OOP is easy to do and quite manageable, but its performance is severely lacking. The OOP approach turns out not to be well-suited to addressing the performance problems because the performance issues we want to handle...

SQL Server 2012 introduces a new index type called a column store index and new query operators that efficiently process batches of rows at a time. These two features together greatly improve the performance of typical data warehouse queries, in some cases by two orders of magnitude. This paper outlines the design of column store indexes and batch-mode processing and summarizes the key benefits...

Sampling-based instrumentation is often used to make runtime monitoring of applications more efficient. AOP has long been used for monitoring but does not have the ability to support code sampling in its current form. In this paper, we present an implementation of two new pointcut designators in a static weave form intended to be used as code sampling tools. The implementation is created as an ...

Web services are increasingly being used in the natural language processing community as a way to increase the interoperability amongst language resources. This paper extends our previous work on integrating two different platforms, i.e. Heart of Gold and Language Grid. The Language Grid is an infrastructure built on top of the Internet to provide distributed language services. Heart of Gold is...

In this article, we investigate what sorts of information humans request about geographical objects of the same type. For example, Edinburgh Castle and Bodiam Castle are two objects of the same type: “castle.” The question is whether specific information is requested for the object type “castle” and how this information differs for objects of other types (e.g., church, museum, or lake). We aim ...