This paper improves several well-known results concerning the descriptional complexity of grammars regulated by context conditions. Specifically, it proves that every recursively enumerable language is generated (A) by a context-conditional grammar of degree (2, 1) with no more than seven conditional productions and eight nonterminals, (B) by a generalized forbidding grammar of degree two with ...

Weighted labelled transition systems (WLTSs) are an established (meta-)model aiming to provide general results and tools for a wide range of systems such as non-deterministic, stochastic, and probabilistic systems. In order to encompass processes combining several quantitative aspects, extensions of the WLTS framework have been further proposed, state-to-function transition systems (FuTSs) and ...

The presence of deterministic relations pose problems for current algorithms that learn the causal structure of a system based on the observed conditional independencies. Deterministic variables lead to information equivalences; two sets of variables have the same information about a third variable. Based on information content, one cannot decide on the direct causes. Several edges model equall...

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Social media are changing the way we do business and how leaders are perceived, from the shop floor to the CEO suite. But whereas the best businesses are creating comprehensive strategies in thi area, research suggests that few corporate Leaders have a social media presence--say, a Facebook or Linked in of page--and that those do don't use it strategically. Today's leaders must embrace social m...

One third of all adults report experiencing tinnitus at some time in their lives. Ten percent to 15% have prolonged tinnitus requiring medical evaluation. Classification of tinnitus requires a thorough history and physical examination, supplemented by appropriate diagnostic tests. Tinnitus can be categorized according to its qualities (as described by the patient and matched on the audiometer) ...

Despite an ever growing knowledge on how parietal and prefrontal neurons encode low-level spatial and color information or higher-level information, such as spatial attention, an understanding of how these cortical regions process neuronal information at the population level is still missing. A simple assumption would be that the function and temporal response profiles of these neuronal populat...

Multisensory integration and crossmodal attention have a large impact on how we perceive the world. Therefore, it is important to know under what circumstances these processes take place and how they affect our performance. So far, no consensus has been reached on whether multisensory integration and crossmodal attention operate independently and whether they represent truly automatic processes...

Escherichia coli K1060-B5 (fadE fabB thi) incorporates into phospholipids several new synthetic fatty acid analogs including those containing phenyl, phenoxy, and azidophenoxy groups at the omega position.