A new and precisely defined chronometric subdivision of the Badenian (Middle Miocene, regional stage of Central Paratethys) is proposed. This uses global events, mainly geomagnetic polarity reversals as correlated chronometric boundaries, supported by climatic and sea-level changes in addition to isotope events and biostratigraphic data. The Karpatian/ Badenian boundary lies at 16.303 Ma, at th...

Among physical events, it is impossible that an event could alter its own past for the simple reason that past events precede future events, and not vice versa. Moreover, to do so would invoke impossible self-causation. However, mental events are constructed by physical neuronal processes that take a finite duration to execute. Given this fact, it is conceivable that later brain events could al...

Interface design should be informed by the application of top-down cognitive principles derived from basic theory and research. Cognitive design principles from 2 domains, event cognition and media, were applied to the design of interfaces for teaching procedures. According to theories of event cognition, procedures should be presented hierarchically, organized by objects or large object parts ...

In this paper interactive computational phonological tools are presented, which were developed as part of the UBI-Linguistic Word Modelling Development Environment (cf. Appendix) in connection with the project Verbmobil-ASL-Nord (Architectures for Speech and Language Systems, Sub-area: Linguistic Word Modelling). This paper is concerned primarily with the phonological component of the ASL speec...

Pervasive information systems give an overview of what digital environments should look like in the future. From a data-centric point of view, traditional databases have to be used alongside with non-conventional data sources like data streams, services and events to deal with new properties of such information systems including dynamicity, autonomy and decentralization. In this context, the de...

We report on a simultaneous measurement of the top quark mass (Mtop) in the Lepton+Jets and Dilepton channels using pp̄ collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV from 4.8 fb −1 of data collected with the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. In the Lepton+Jets channel, a top quark mass (m t ) is reconstructed for every event by minimizing a χ-like function to the overconstrained kinematics of the tt̄ system....

The traditional belief is that the event-related alpha response can solely be described in terms of suppression or event-related desynchronization (ERD). Recent research, however, has shown that under certain conditions alpha responds reliably with an increase in amplitudes (event-related synchronization or ERS). ERS is elicited in situations, where subjects withhold or control the execution of...

While the traditional objective of parallel/distributed simulation techniques has been mainly in improving performance and making very large models tractable, more recent research trends targeted complementary aspects, such as the “ease of programming”. Along this line, a recent proposal called Event and Cross State (ECS) synchronization, stands as a solution allowing to break the traditional p...