The two-dimensional velocity potential associated with the scattering of linear waves in water of finite but non-uniform depth is shown to be unique for Khmax ≤ 1. Here hmax is the maximum depth of the fluid and K = ω2/g, where ω is the angular frequency and g is the acceleration due to gravity. Uniqueness is established by proving that the homogeneous boundary value problem for the velocity po...

Factored planning decouples planning tasks into subsets (factors) of state variables. The traditional focus is on handling complex cross-factor interactions. Departing from this, we introduce a form of target-profile factoring, forcing the crossfactor interactions to take the form of a fork, with several leaf factors and one potentially very large root factor. We show that forward state space s...

30 This study examined the effects of 3 weeks of either endurance or strength training on plasticity of 31 the neural mechanisms involved in the soleus H-reflex and V-wave. Twenty-five sedentary healthy 32 subjects were randomized into an endurance group (n = 13) or strength group (n = 12). Evoked V33 wave, H-reflex and M-wave recruitment curves, maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) and time34 t...

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that downslope treadmill walking decreases spinal excitability. Soleus H-reflexes were measured in sixteen adults on 3 days. Measurements were taken before and twice after 20 min of treadmill walking at 2.5 mph (starting at 10 and 45 min post). Participants walked on a different slope each day [level (Lv), upslope (Us) or downslope (Ds)]. The...

A long standing debate in computer vision community concerns the link between segmentation and recognition. The question I am trying to answer here is, Does image segmentation as a preprocessing step help image recognition? In spite of a plethora of the literature to the contrary, some authors have suggested that recognition driven by high quality segmentation is the most promising approach in ...

Hierarchical generative models, such as Bayesian networks, and belief propagation have been shown to provide a theoretical framework that can account for perceptual processes, including feedforward recognition and feedback modulation. The framework explains both psychophysical and physiological experimental data and maps well onto the hierarchical distributed cortical anatomy. However, the comp...

We suspect that morphological change of two types of aneurysms in ruptured and unruptured aneurysms are distinguishing because of different location and haemodynamics. So it is necessary to discuss sidewall and bifurcation type aneurysms in ruptured and unruptured state respectively. We used 209 consecutive aneurysms (144 ruptured, 65 bifurcation type) to assess the following parameters in 3D: ...

The Multiple Cluster Scheduling Problem corresponds to minimize the maximum completion time (makespan) of a set of n parallel rigid (and non-preemptive) jobs submitted to N identical clusters. It cannot be approximated with a ratio better than 2 (unless P = NP). We present in this paper the methodology that encompasses several existing results [1, 2]. We detail first how to apply it for obtaini...