The ability of some bird species to pull up meat hung on a string is a famous example of spontaneous animal problem solving. The "insight" hypothesis claims that this complex behaviour is based on cognitive abilities such as mental scenario building and imagination. An operant conditioning account, in contrast, would claim that this spontaneity is due to each action in string pulling being rein...

Understanding causal regularities in the world is a key feature of human cognition. However, the extent to which non-human animals are capable of causal understanding is not well understood. Here, we used the Aesop's fable paradigm--in which subjects drop stones into water to raise the water level and obtain an out of reach reward--to assess New Caledonian crows' causal understanding of water d...

Programme Committee A. Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK Hamid R. Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia, USA Frank Ball, Bournemouth University, UK Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Jeremy Bradley, Imperial College London, UK Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA Karim Djemame, University of Leeds, UK Jose Gil, Motorola, UK Wei Guo, Nokia Rese...

The Taoxi dome stands out as a rotated-circular structure on maps of the Wuyi terrane, south China. origin and tectonic activity analysis is window to understand framework aggregation process terranes in Cathaysia block. Our field observations demonstrated that two major phases deformation, counterclockwise rotation uplift, were recorded dome. Geochronological data indicated was initiated at ab...

A rare psammosteid heterostracan (Agnatha) occurrence in the Devonian of the Prague Basin is indicative of a dry land influence in the regional palaeogeography. This argument is strongly supported by the appearance of vascular plants, but the studied vertebrates allow us to presume a local brackish water environment. These conditions are considered to be related to a supposed land in the vicini...

a Department of Bioand Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland b Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, Scotland, UK c Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Marine Centre, P.O. Box 2, FI-00561 Helsinki, Finland d Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, P.O....

This paper investigates the use of the Glasgow Caledonian University VOTER HPC cluster for optimizing Ambisonic surround sound decoders. The cluster was used to run an exhaustive search coded using MPI C/C++ in order to obtain an optimal set of Ambisonic decoder parameters for a fixed resolution. The execution time of running this problem on the cluster compares favorably to work carried out on...

MARC C. OBONSAWIN*, ANNE ROBERTSON, JOHN R. CRAWFORD, CHRIS PERERA, SHONA WALKER, LOUISE BLACKMORE, DENIS M. PARKER and JOHN A. O. BESSON Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Department of Anaesthesiology, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen, UK Department of Clinical Psychology, ...