Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping." Tapping in synchrony with the period of the perceived structure is easy and consistent within one presentation. The present study addresses the question of whether the tapping to presentations at different times is consistent across presentations and across subje...

The popular bar prank known in colloquial English as beer tapping consists in hitting the top of a beer bottle with a solid object, usually another bottle, to trigger the foaming over of the former within a few seconds. Despite the trick being known for a long time, to the best of our knowledge, the phenomenon still lacks scientific explanation. Although it seems natural to think that shock-ind...

How has genomics changed our view of biology lately? If one focuses on much-discussed rivalries between certain sequencing groups, one could easily argue, 'not much'. But look a little bit closer at what genomic approaches are continuing to produce, and there are clear signs of some profound discoveries in the making. For example, observations from the major sequencing initiatives are beginning...

This paper proposes a new protocol called tapping alert protocol (TAP), which detects if any computer is eavesdropping on the network. When tapping is detected, it alerts the network users on the danger of tapping. In designing the protocol, a model for an attacker is developed who sniffs the network and breaks down the proposed protocol, and the requirements on the protocol in terms of efficie...

The software infrastructure used on Volunteered Distributed Computing is evolving to meet the diverse needs of researchers. These emerging systems are being built using Open Source tools. We describe a number of such systems in the context of this emerging field. Throughout this paper we revisit concepts presented in the April 2004 paper entitled, “Tapping the Matrix”. 1. Machines are underutil...

dynamically stable biped robots mimicking human locomotion have received significant attention over the last few decades. formerly, the existence of stable periodic gaits for straight walking of passive biped walkers was well known and investigated as the notion of passive dynamic walking. this study is aimed to elaborate this notion in the case of three dimensional (3d) walking and extend it f...