A new 2-D traveltime tomography algorithm has been developed for use with long offset seismic streamer data. The forward problem is solved using initial value ray tracing in Delaunay triangulated grids. The traveltimes are calculated analytically. The linearised joint interface and velocity inversion is regularised via a geostatistical smoothing regularisation based on the formulation of a data...

Loss of the ability to move is the most characteristic and fundamental motor deficit in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonian patients exhibit akinesia (inability to initiate movement), hypokinesia (reduced movement), and bradykinesia (slowness of the movement itself). (All these phenomena will be subsumed under the title akinesia.) Rigid muscles may contribute to akinesia, but they are not the cau...

The distributed hash table, or DHT, is a distributed system that provides a traditional hash table’s simple put/get interface using a peer-to-peer overlay network. To echo the prevailing hype, DHTs deliver incremental scalability in the number of nodes, extremely high availability of data, low latency, and high throughput. Over the past 16 months, we have run a public DHT service called OpenDHT...

In the Kappa effect, two visual stimuli are given, and their spatial distance affects their perceived temporal interval. The classical model assumes constant speed while a competing Bayesian model assumes a slow speed prior. The two models are based on different assumptions about the statistical structure of the environment. Here we introduce a new visual experiment to distinguish between these...

A new method for the correction of wavefront distortions in laser interferometers is proposed. In contrast to the usual adaptive correction, by means of piezoelectric actuators, a high power laser beam is used to control the thermal expansion of the optical elements. Since the correction is performed without mechanically contacting the element, no additional mechanical noise is introduced. Init...

Most of the inventory control models assume that quality defect never happens, which means production process is perfect. However, in real manufacturing processes, the production process starts its operation in the in-control state; but after a period of time, shifts to the out-of-control state because of occurrence of some disturbances. In this paper, in order to approach the model to real man...

We give a poly(logn, 1/ε)-query adaptive algorithm for testing whether an unknown Boolean function f : {−1, 1}n → {−1, 1}, which is promised to be a halfspace, is monotone versus ε-far from monotone. Since non-adaptive algorithms are known to require almost Ω(n) queries to test whether an unknown halfspace is monotone versus far from monotone, this shows that adaptivity enables an exponential i...

A growing body of evidence suggests that action videogames could enhance a variety of cognitive skills and more specifically attention skills. The aim of this study was to develop a novel adaptive videogame to support the rehabilitation of the most common consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI), that is the impairment of attention and executive functions. TBI patients can be affected by ps...