T his paper pos i ti ons humanoi d r es e ar ch as an appr oach t o under s t anding and r eal i z i ng com ple x r eal w or l d interactions between a robot, an environment, and a human. As a f i rs t s t ep t owar ds ex t r act i ng a com mon pr i nci pl e over t he t hr ee t er m i nt er act i ons , a conc ept of act i on or i ent ed cont r ol has bee n i nve s ti gat ed w it h a s i mul ati...

Peroxisomes (POs) and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) cooperate in cellular lipid metabolism and form tight structural associations, which were first observed in ultrastructural studies decades ago. PO-ER associations have been suggested to impact on a diverse number of physiological processes, including lipid metabolism, phospholipid exchange, metabolite transport, signaling, and PO biogenesis....

Over f i f ty students congre ­ gated on F ieldhouse M all on Friday, taking time out of their schedules to reflect on the pos­ s ib il ity o f w a r in the M idd le East. Seven speakers, inc lud ing a faculty member, local activists and students from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s provided sev­ era l d iffe ren t perspectives on the Middle East issue, w ith the unified message: prevention of war ...

Evaluating model performance of an ensemble-based chemical data assimilation system during INTEX-B field mission A. F. Arellano Jr., K. Raeder, J. L. Anderson, P. G. Hess, L. K. Emmons, D. P. Edwards, G. G. Pfister, T. L. Campos, and G. W. Sachse Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000,...

The paper presents problems arising in the analysis of intonation patterns in speech, their interpretation and usage for the needs of Speech Technology. Multiple functions of intonation are discussed from points of view of acoustic phonetics, linguistics and psychology. The results of a comprehensive, multilevel analysis of prosody may be directly used, above all, in a system of automatic speec...

The reproducibility of statistical findings has become a concern not only for statisticians, but for all researchers engaged in empirical discovery. Section 2 of this article identifies key reasons statistical findings may not replicate, including power and sampling issues; misapplication of statistical tests; the instability of findings under reasonable perturbations of data or models; lack of...

A team from N otre D am e com peted in the 14th annual Notre Dame Invitational Mas­ te r ’s of Business A dm in istra­ tion (MBA) Case Competition, w hich w as held yeste rd ay in the Center for Continuing Edu­ cation. The Notre Dame team com ­ prised of Curt M itchke, Mike M organ, and Thom as Pram e faired well in the competition, but lost to the team from Uni­ versity of Texas at Austin. The...

A t 17 , sw im m in g ch am pi on B ry ce G ra ha m is o ne d iv e aw ay f ro m f ul fi lli ng h er d re am of c om pe ti ng i n th e O ly m pi cs . In st ea d, s he p lu ng es i nt o a co m a th at s te al s fi ve y ea rs of h er li fe . W he n sh e fi na lly w ak es u p, B ry ce in si st s on r et ur ni ng h om e so t ha t th in gs ca n go b ac k to n or m al — ag ai ns t th e ad vi ce o f he...

This exposition explains the basic ideas of Stein’s method for Poisson random variable approximation and Poisson process approximation from the point of view of the immigration-death process and Palm theory. The latter approach also enables us to define local dependence of point processes [Chen and Xia (2004)] and use it to study Poisson process approximation for locally dependent point process...

A com p ara tive stu d y on fa tigue resistanc e of thin a luminium b e aring lining s (sup porte d b y hard er b a ckin g ste e l layers) pro d uc e d b y hig h ve loc ity oxyfue l (HV O F) s pray coa tin g and conventiona l roll bon d ing (RB) proc esses has shown tha t the former is sup erior to the la tter with similar lining com position (A l–20%Sn–1% C u–0?25%Mn) when com p are d on the b...