The brains of animals show chemical, anatomical, and functional differences, such as dopamine production and structure of sleep, between Amniota and older groups. In addition, play behavior, capacity to acquire taste aversion, sensory pleasure in decision making, and expression of emotional tachycardia and fever started also to be displayed by Amniota, suggesting that the brain may have began t...

We address systems which have multiple objectives: broadly speaking, these objectives can be thought of as safety and performance goals. Guaranteeing safety is our rst priority, satisfying performance criteria our second. In this paper, we compute the system's safe operating space and represent it in closed form, and then, within this space, we compute solutions which optimize a given performan...

Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep, spindle density, and sleep continuity/fragmentation. A provocative question for the field of cognitive aging is whether such changes in sleep physiology affect cognition (e.g., memory consolidation). We review nearl...

There is a pervasive tendency in organizational studies to view acts of communication in terms of the individual agent. It is the individual who speaks, writes, gestures, and so on; it is the individual we credit for effective speaking, just as it is the individualís ineffective listening that invites discredit. This tendency to focus on individual acts of expression is indeed unfortunate becau...

An algorithm is presented which finds all the elementary circuits-of a directed graph in time bounded by O((n + e)(c + 1)) and space bounded by O(n + e), where there are n vertices, e edges and c elementary circuits in the graph. The algorithm resembles algorithms by Tiernan and Tarjan, but is faster because it considers each edge at most twice between any one circuit and the next in the output...

In open agent societies, communication protocols and strategies cannot be assumed to always match perfectly, because they are typically specified by different designers. These potential discrepancies raise a number of interesting issues, most notably the problem of checking that the behaviour of an agent is (or will be) conformant to the rules described by a protocol. In this paper, we argue th...

Correspondence to: Dr Shelagh Smith, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, The National Hospital, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK; shelaghs@epilepsynse. org.uk _________________________ A lthough the electroencephalogram (EEG) is a reliable test to assess cerebral function, its value in diagnosis and evaluation of neurological conditions apart from epilepsy has been largely superceded in re...

We evaluate the possibility of application of combination of classifiers using fuzzy measures and integrals to Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) based on electroencephalography. In particular, we present an ensemble method that can be applied to a variety of systems and evaluate it in the context of a visual P300-based BCI. Offline analysis of data relative to 5 subjects lets us argue that the pro...

Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) are becoming ubiquitous devices included in newly released personal computers. Broadly speaking, the aim of this technology is to provide a facility for authenticating the platform on which they are running: they are able to measure attest to the authenticity of a hardware and software configuration. Designed to be cheap, commodity devices which motherboard and p...

Temporomandibular joint reconstruction (TMJR) is often necessary for patients with severe and/or refractory TMJ disease who have failed conservative treatment. TMJR aids to improve masticatory function and is associated with improved quality of life outcomes. Currently, alloplastic reconstruction is considered as the treatment of choice in most severe TMJ disorders due to its many advantages in...