Conventional wisdom has maintained that while LISP is suitable for the development of experimental software, it does not support production-quality systems well. This report describes a building-block approach where a complex system (an intelligent Chinese language tutor) was built in a LISP environment out of a series of powerful tools. The resulting system does not in any way sacrifice perfor...

The COCOMO RAD MODEL (CORADMO) is currently implemented in two parts: a front end staged

Rapid Prototyping of Wireless Communications Systems

We discuss some features of the regular supergravity solution for fractional branes on a deformed conifold, recently found by Klebanov-Strassler, mostly adapting it to a type 0 nonsypersymmetric context. The non-supersymmetric gauge theory is SU(M)× SU(M) with two bi-fundamental Weyl fermions. The tachyon is now stabilized by the RR antisymmetric tensor flux. We briefly discuss the most general...

successively decomposes the artifact being designed along functional lines. It describes the functional relationship between the parts and abstract parts in the domain. This relationship describes how abstract parts may be realized by combining sets of lower-level functions, which may include parts. (4) R e q u i r e d f u n c t i o n s parts and abstract parts often require the functions perfo...

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The effect of deprivation of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep upon retention of a passive avoidance response was studied in rats. An incompletely-learned avoidance response was established in one trial by shocking the animals when they stepped down from an elevated platform. Fourteen animals were then deprived of REM sleep by placing them on small inverted pots in a pool of water. Twelve control ...