Although popular among computer scientists, the OCCmodel of emotions contains a number of ambiguities that stand in the way of a truthful formalization or implementation. This paper aims to identify and clarify several of these ambiguities. Furthermore, a new inheritance-based view of the logical structure of emotions of the OCC model is proposed and discussed.

The mechanism for passive cochlear tuning remains unsettled. Early models considered the organ of Corti complex (OCC) as a succession of spring-mass resonators. Later, traveling wave models showed that passive tuning could arise through the interaction of cochlear fluid mass and OCC stiffness without local resonators. However, including enough OCC mass to produce local resonance enhanced the tu...

A lot of effort in Qualitative Reasoning had been spent in the RCC-8 calculus. This paper proposes a calculus named OCC (Occlusion Calculus) closely related to Galton’s LOS-14 calculus, that is more expressive in a vision context. The OCC relations qualitatively describe configurations from two convex objects in the projective view from a 3D scene. To set OCC on a mathematical ground an axiomat...

Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the ovary (OCC) is a chemo-resistant tumor with a relatively poor prognosis and is frequently associated with endometriosis. Although it is assumed that oxidative stress plays some role in the malignant transformation of this tumor, the characteristic molecular events leading to carcinogenesis remain unknown. In this study, an array-based comparative genomic hybridi...

The function of occludin (Occ) in the tight junction is undefined. To gain insight into its role in epithelial cell biology, occludin levels in Madin-Darby canine kidney II cells were suppressed by stably expressing short interfering RNA. Suppression of occludin was associated with a decrease in claudins-1 and -7 and an increase in claudins-3 and -4. Claudin-2 levels were unaffected. The tight ...

Distributed storage systems run transactions across machines to ensure serializability. Traditional protocols for distributed transactions are based on two-phase locking (2PL) or optimistic concurrency control (OCC). 2PL serializes transactions as soon as they conflict and OCC resorts to aborts, leaving many opportunities for concurrency on the table. This paper presents ROCOCO, a novel concurr...