15. Supplementary Notes Project performed in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. Project Title: Reducing Traffic Congestion and Fuel Emission through a Minimal Cost, Self-Tuning Closed-Loop Progression System URL: http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-4729-2.pdf 16. Abstract Closed-loop systems are widely implemented in Texas arterials to p...

A current theoretical view proposes that infants converge on the speech categories of their native language by attending to frequency distributions that occur in the acoustic input. To date, the only empirical support for this statistical learning hypothesis comes from studies where a single, salient dimension was manipulated. Additional evidence is sought here, by introducing a less salient pa...

We present a biologically plausible computational model for solving the visual binding problem. The binding problem appears due to the distributed nature of visual processing in the primate brain, and the gradual loss of spatial information along the processing hierarchy. The model relies on the reentrant connections so ubiquitous in the primate brain to recover spatial information, and thus al...

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An approach is proposed to design the intelligent electrode position controller for UHP by using nonlinear scaling and fuzzy self-tuning PID control algorithm. First, nonlinear scaling of controlled variable that compensate the nonlinearity of the object is proposed. Second, a fuzzy self-tuning PID electrode position control algorithm is designed and the parameters of the fuzzy inference are op...

There has been major progress in recent years in the development of improved discretizations of the QCD action, current operators, etc for use in numerical simulations that employ very coarse lattices. These lectures review the field theoretic techniques used to design these discretizations, techniques for testing and tuning the new formalisms that result, and recent simulation results employin...

With novelty being a new track, we had little prior experience to build upon. Hence we decided to begin our development experiments with a simple similarity match between the topic definition and the candidate sentence. For the available training topics, this proved to be remarkably responsive to tuning between precision-focused runs and recall-focused runs for novelty as well as the more predi...

We consider a codimension-one brane embedded in a gravity-dilaton bulk action, whose symmetries are compatible with T-duality along the space-like directions parallel to the brane, and the bulk time-like direction. The equations of motions in the string frame allow for a smooth background obtained by the union of two symmetric patches of AdS space. The Poincaré invariance of the solution appear...

Energy efficiency is of critical importance in sensornets where the working life of wireless motes, and consequently the entire network, is limited by the finite energy capacity of batteries. Radio network activity typically dominates the energy consumption profile of motes running distributed applications, and hence represents the obvious target when attempting to use energy more frugally. Sig...

Metris is a version of the Tetris game that uses a player’s musical response to control game performance. The game is driven by two factors: traditional game design and the player’s individual sense of music and sound. Metris uses tuning principles to determine relationships between pitch and the timbre of the sounds produced. These relationships are represented as bells synchronised with signi...