Flies use a system of specialised neurons to read the patterns of visual motion - optic flow - induced by the their movements. Recent experiments illustrate how the dendrites of these neurons reach out to assemble patterns of optic flow and encode them reliably.

William James argued that we ordinarily think of the objects that we can observe — things that belong to ‘ the world of sense ’ — as having an unquestioned reality. However, young children also assert the existence of entities that they cannot ordinarily observe. For example, they assert the existence of germs and souls. The belief in the existence of such unobservable entities is likely to be ...

In mixed electroacoustic music it is common to find the erroneous conception according to which interaction should base itself exclusively on the fusion between instrumental writing and electronic devices, whereas the contrast between these sound spheres is as significant as the fusional states. Although fusion may be seen as the most important ingredient for an efficacious compositional strate...

This book explores the realm of international political life that occupies a middle ground between the anarchy characteristic of international politics and the order characteristic of national politics. This is the realm of international society. As a starting point, this book shares the realist assumption that states reside in a Hobbesian international system whose default equilibrium is one o...

In this paper, a new model based on the thevenin equivalent circuit for investigating the ultra-saturation phenomenon during the energization of a loaded power transformer is presented and its effect on the differential protection of the transformer is considered. The ultra-saturation phenomenon causes the mal-operation of the power transformer differential protection. So, the description a...

Neutrinos, the strangest beasts in the particle zoo, may soon open the way to unexplored realms

Adenosine-to-inosine modification of RNA molecules (A-to-I RNA editing) is an important mechanism that increases transciptome diversity. It occurs when a genomically encoded adenosine (A) is converted to an inosine (I) by ADAR proteins. Sequencing reactions read inosine as guanosine (G); therefore, current methods to detect A-to-I editing sites align RNA sequences to their corresponding DNA reg...

European Journal of Information Systems (2013) 22, 381–386. doi:10.1057/ejis.2013.10 Introduction Business Intelligence (BI) is a topic of growing importance for both industry and academia. Although still viewed from its technology roots, it is slowly broadening to encompass the data infrastructure, applications, tools and best practices required for the effective capture, representation and de...