This paper investigates an apparent contradiction between recent studies of "ratios" and "differences" of heaviness. Birnbaum and Veit (1974) found a single rank order for judgments in the two tasks, whereas Rule, Curtis, and Mullin (1981), who used a different stimulus set, procedure, and experimental design, reported two orders. To investigate the cause of this discrepancy, the present study ...

Modified Reconstructibility Analysis (MRA), a novel decomposition within the framework of set-theoretic (crisp possibilistic) reconstructibility analysis, is presented. It is shown that in some cases, while three-variable NPNclassified Boolean functions are not decomposable using Conventional Reconstructibility Analysis (CRA), they are decomposable using MRA. Also, it is shown that whenever a d...

We consider a positive measure on [0,∞) and a sequence of nested spaces L0 ⊂ L1 ⊂ L2 · · · of rational functions with prescribed poles in [−∞, 0]. Let {φk}k=0, with φ0 ∈ L0 and φk ∈ Lk \ Lk−1, k = 1, 2, . . . be the associated sequence of orthogonal rational functions. The zeros of φn can be used as the nodes of a rational Gauss quadrature formula that is exact for all functions in Ln · Ln−1, a...

The purpose of our research was to document and discuss the temporal patterns of prey use shown by the trap-nesting wasp Trypoxylon opacum in two different habitats in Southern Brazil. It was carried out from December 2001 to December 2004. Twenty nine species belonging to five families of spiders were captured by T. opacum. Araneidae was the most captured family and has been strongly represent...

We prove that the integral Hurewicz image of the cokernel J spectrum detects precisely the Kervaire invariant one elements and nothing else, which may be viewed as an analogue of the Curtis–Madsen conjecture on the unstable mod 2 Hurewicz image of Q0S.

Many phenomena such as neuron firing in the brain, the travelling waves which produce the heartbeat, arrythmia and fibrillation in the heart, catalytic reactions or cellular organization activities, among others, can be described by a unifying paradigm based on a class of nonlinear reaction-diffusion mechanisms. The FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) model is a simplified version of such class which is know...

Dynamics of FitzHugh-Nagumo (FN) neuron ensembles with time-delayed couplings subject to white noises, has been studied by using both direct simulations and a semianalytical augmented moment method (AMM) which has been proposed in a preceding paper [H. Hasegawa, Phys. Rev. E 70, 021911 (2004)]. For N-unit FN neuron ensembles, AMM transforms original 2N-dimensional stochastic delay differential ...

A spectral domain method is presented to calculate the potential of a vertical dipole in a multilayered medium as a model of long-range radio propagation. The spectral domain Green’s function (SDGF) for structures with up to hundreds of thousands of layers is calculated using an efficient matrix formulation, thus enabling simulation of continuously stratified media. The SDGF is sampled to perfo...