PURPOSE: While modern research on coronal craniosynostosis has vastly widened our breadth of knowledge regarding treatment of the condition, the mechanism underlying the development of the deformity remains uncovered and largely uninvestigated. This study evaluates midface and skull base development in nonsyndromic unilateral coronal synostosis (UCS), focusing on zygomatic and cranial base anat...

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are a large family of heuristic optimization algorithms inspired by natural phenomena, and are often used in practice to obtain satisficing instead of optimal solutions. In this work, we investigate a largely underexplored issue: the approximation performance of EAs in terms of how close the obtained solution is to an optimal solution. We study an EA framework name...

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There has been much work already on formal models of deliberation/planning under incomplete information, where an agent can perform sensing actions to acquire additional information. But most of it has been set in epistemic logicbased frameworks and is hard to relate to work on agent programming languages (e.g. 3APL, AgentSpeak(L)). Here, we develop new non-epistemic formalizations of deliberat...

In this paper HVDC is investigated for its ability to supply a passive industrial system. The objective of the paper is to assess the potential and limitation of the use of dc distribution in the industrial power system. The performance of the dc supplied distribution system is compared with pure ac supplied distribution system of simi lar ratings under balanced faults on the grid side and moto...

The capacity for abstraction is vital for adaptive behavior. Based on behavioral data and event-related potentials (ERPs), the present study investigates the brain's ability to encode abstract auditory rules with a dynamic approach in which rules constantly emerge and vanish. In successive conditions, abstract rules are task-irrelevant and task-relevant. Results show that as few as two consecut...

The expressiveness of traditional syntactic pattern matching is severely limited by its lack of abstraction. Because syntax patterns are mired in the builtin types understood by the pattern matching system, they lack the ability to express patterns over abstract data types (ADT’s). More advanced pattern matching techniques, such as semantic matching, can overcome this, but at the per-ADT cost o...