Literature on geographic economic highlights the fact that larger cities are more innovative than smaller ones. For instance, Carlino (2001) stresses that patenting activities are positively correlated to the city density. Moreover the implied gain in the rate of patenting per capita due to the urban density outpaces the simple effect of employment density (scale effect). Feldman (1999) in a re...

Error processing during motor control involves the evaluation of "high-level" errors (i.e., failures to meet a system goal) by a frontal system involving anterior cingulate cortex and the evaluation of "low-level" errors (i.e., discrepancies between actual and desired motor commands) by a posterior system involving posterior parietal cortex. We have recently demonstrated that high-level errors ...

A polyphenism in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus involves the development of different feeding structures in response to an environmental cue, providing a genetic model species for investigating ecologically relevant phenotypic plasticity.

We live in the age of touch screen gadgets. The future trends also show promising growth for them. Currently available input systems developed for standard PCs have room for improvement in efficiency, visibility and usability etc. particularly for Perso-Arabic scripts e.g., Urdu. In addition, small touch screen devices expose users to health hazards. We put forth Ergonomics in prime focus to re...

Recent work for learning word representations has applied successfully to many NLP applications, such as sentiment analysis and question answering. However, most of these models assume a single vector per word type without considering polysemy and homonymy. In this paper, we present an extension to the CBOW model which not only improves the quality of embeddings but also makes embeddings suitab...

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Different estimation methods for covariance parameters in meta-analyses can result in conflicting p-values concerning the test of treatment effect. We propose a valid method to overcome this problem at least partially by introducing a new estimator for the standard deviation of the common treatment difference.

Ten subjects with diverse hearing impairment trialled a multiple-memory hearing aid in everyday life and in a paired-comparison laboratory test. Five subjects evaluated systematic variations of the compression characteristic in two bands, around an individually fitted response, using the Resound PHS-ED instrument. Another five subjects evaluated systematic variations of the frequency response c...

Educational use of handheld computers is becoming more common. It is therefore important to examine differences between standard educational interactions, and possibilities offered by handheld devices. Handheld computers allow the opportunity to study at times and locations where individualised interactions would not normally be possible or convenient. Conditions in such locations may different...

When facing the problem of teaching the basis of robot control programming to computer science students, apart from the syllabus of the course, some other requirements have to be taken into account. For instance, which are the most appropriate robotic platforms, and which are the best programming tools for teaching it. In this paper we describe the platforms and programming environments chosen ...