Numerous examples of temporal reasoning involve a process of abstraction from the number of times an event is to occur, or the number of times events stand in a temporal relation. For example, scheduling a recurring event such as one's ooce hours may consider things like the relative temporal ordering of the ooce hours and a number of other events in a given work day. The number of times ooce h...

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Comparisons between primal and dual approaches have recently been extensively studied and evaluated from a theoretical standpoint based on the amount of pruning achieved by each of these when applied to non-binary constraint satisfaction problems. Enforcing arc consistency on the dual encoding has been shown to strictly dominate enforcing GAC on the primal encoding (Stergiou & Walsh 1999). More...

Many connectionist approaches to musical expectancy and music composition let the question of ``Whatnext?'' overshadow the equally important question of ``When next?''. One cannot escape the latter question, one oftemporal structure, when considering the perception of musical meter. We view the perception of metrical structure asa dynamic process where the temporal organization of e...

First of all, we would like to complement Siedler and his colleagues for their innovative case–control study in patients with clinically established tendon lesions of the m. supraspinatus in order to verify a pathological dose– response relation for work-related risk factors of shoulder complaints, taking into account personal and sport-related confounders (Seidler et al. 2011). We were surpris...

Since the origins of the constraint satisfaction paradigm, its restriction to binary constraints has concentrated a signiicant part of the work. This is understandable because new ideas/techniques are usually much simpler to present/ elaborate by rst restricting them to the binary case. (See for example the arc consistency algorithms, such as AC-3 or AC-4, which have been presented rst in their...

Three expert jugglers and three intermediate jugglers performed a three-ball cascade pattern under spatially and temporally constrained conditions. In the spatially constrained conditions the balls were thrown to a specific height, whereas in the temporally constrained conditions the balls were thrown to the beeps of a metronome. The experiment was conducted to examine the hypothesis that juggl...

General guidelines to reclaim saline or sodic soils do not adequately consider variables such as pH and the presence of organic matter that are known to affect soil stability. Poor structural stability of sodic, saline-sodic, and high-pH soils adversely influences crop yields; promotes piping, tunneling, and slope erosion; and can accelerate the failure of water conveyance systems. We evaluated...

As Nigel Malin observes in his latest book ‘De-Professionalism and Austerity: Challenges for the Public Sector’, ‘If austerity finished tomorrow it is likely that de-professionalisation would continue driven by neo-liberal approach to service provision’ (p.26). This timely, insightful authoritatively written provides an incisive analysis of role global neo-liberalism associated measures forging...