Executive control is the ability to flexibly control behavior and is frequently studied with saccadic eye movements. Contrary to frontal oculomotor areas, the role of the superior parietal lobe (SPL) in the executive control of saccades remains unknown. To explore the role of SPL networks in saccade control, we performed a saccadic search-step task while acquiring functional magnetic resonance ...

In recent years, the Software Product Line (SPL) is becoming a mainstream strategy in software development. The high reusability and the great derivability by modelling common and variable artefacts are undoubtedly its significant strengths. Taking advantage of these strengths requires a design of efficient product line. Often, most existing SPL design approaches build on feature modelling by a...

This paper presents a novel approach to the design verification of Software Product Lines(SPL). The proposed approach assumes that the requirements and designs are modeled as finite state machines with variability information. The variability information at the requirement and design levels are expressed differently and at different levels of abstraction. Also the proposed approach supports ver...

Introduction The acoustic noise during image acquisition is a well-known problem in MRI, which is especially pronounced during fast imaging with high gradient slew rates and at high field strengths. Patients can be exposed to sound pressure levels (SPL) as high as 130 dB [1] and more on clinical 3 Tesla MR systems. As the SPL increases linearly with gradient amplitude [2] the SPL of a 7T System...

Self-paced learning (SPL) mimics the cognitive mechanism of humans and animals that gradually learns from easy to hard samples. One key issue in SPL is to obtain better weighting strategy that is determined by the minimizer functions. Existing methods usually pursue this by artificially designing the explicit form of regularizers. In this paper, we focus on the minimizer functions, and study a ...

BACKGROUND Bi-directional communication between the follicle and oocyte is necessary to regulate follicle and oocyte development. Currently, it is not practical to monitor the serial growth of individual follicles during assisted reproduction. The ovarian stimulation phase length (SPL) is an indirect measure of mean follicular growth rate. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis ...

The increasing complexity and cost of software-intensive systems has led developers to seek ways of reusing software components across development projects. One approach to increasing software reusability is to develop a Software Product-line (SPL), which is a software architecture that can be reconfigured and reused across projects. Rather than developing software from scratch for a new projec...

The introduction of antigen into the anterior chamber (AC) of the eye induces the production of antigen-specific splenic CD8(+) regulatory T cells (AC-SPL cells) that suppress a delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction in immunized mice. Because the generation of these regulatory T cells is also induced by exposure to transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and antigen or F4/80(+) cells expos...

Software-Produktlinien (SPLs) können durch systematische Wiederverwendung und mittels der Industrialisierung der Softwareentwicklung Wettbewerbsvorteile schaffen. Da die Ausrichtung eines Unternehmens von der Einzelsystementwicklung hin zur Fertigung von Software in SPL eine strategische Entscheidung ist, müssen beim Bestimmen des Umfangs einer SPL neben technischen auch ökonomische Aspekte ber...

Software Products Lines (SPL) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are two approaches for software development used in industrial practice favouring reuse of existing assets and capabilities, rather than redevelop new systems. The main goal of this work is to exploit benefits from both approaches and integrate them into a unique architectural design process WSRA-SPL (Web-Services Reference A...