Pictures of handled objects such as a beer mug or frying pan are shown to prime speeded reach and grasp actions that are compatible with the object. To determine whether the evocation of motor affordances implied by this result is driven merely by the physical orientation of the object's handle as opposed to higher-level properties of the object, including its function, prime objects were prese...

Distribution ray tracing uses multiple samples per pixel to produce antialiased images that include soft shadows, glossy reflection, motion blur, and depth-of-field. The two main potential barriers to making distribution ray tracing interactive are that many rays might be required, and that those rays are not coherent enough to derive efficiency from tracing them in packets. A new interleaved s...

When comparing inductive logic programming (ILP) and attribute-value learning techniques, there is a trade-oo between expressive power and eeciency. Inductive logic programming techniques are typically more expressive but also less eecient. Therefore, the data sets handled by current inductive logic programming systems are small according to general standards within the data mining community. T...

Recently Cuoco and Hannestad have presented estimates for the neutrino flux of Centaurus A under the assumption that two out of the 27 highest energy cosmic-ray events observed by the Pierre Auger collaboration can be attributed to this galaxy. In this work we elaborate on this assumption and estimate the diffuse neutrino flux assuming that all cosmic-ray sources are similar to Centaurus A. Wit...