This Refresher Course was originally arranged around two problems: the mechanism of the genie control of behavior, and its evolutionary implications. The first question is the primary reason why behavior genetics is regarded as a discipline of its own, even though, as several of the speakers have emphasized, behavior is not in principle different from morphological phenotypes with regard to its...

pletely clear, but it may be that all represent further examples of duplica. tion or reduplication of the same genie material. It is not possible at present to extrapolate the data of the lozenge series to other allelic series. However, they do not justify the conclusion that all multiple allelic series represent cases of multiple loci, for the simplest explanation for the situation within the ...

This paper is part of an MSc. report on a program called GENIE (Generator of Inflected English), written in CProlog, that acts as a front end to an existing speech synthesis program. It allows the user to type a sentence in English text, and then processes it so that the synthesiser will output it with natural-sounding inflection; that is, as well as transcribing text to a phonemic form that ca...

If mobile computing is to become the pre-dominant computer usage paradigm in the coming years as is widely anticipated, a substantial increase in the demand for mobile computing applications and services will arise. How best to engineer such applications remains an open question and is naturally the focus of much research. In this article, we propose the use of intelligent agents as the constit...

We present bounds on the maximum channel utilization (with finite average delay) of synchronous multiple access communications protocols serving an infinite population of homogeneous stations. Messages arrive to the system as a series of independent Bernoulli trials in discrete time, with probability p of an arrival at each arrival point (the Poisson limit is explicitly included) and are then r...

CLAUDINE CHAOUIYA, GEORGE LIBEROPOULOS and YVES DALLERY Departement Genie Bio Medical (ESIL/GBM), Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs de Luminy, Parc Scienti®que et Technologique de Luminy, case 925, FR-13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France E-mail: [email protected] Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, GR-38334, Volos, Greece E-mail: [email protected]...

the application of a flight simulator with six degree of freedom (6dof)) in design and analysis of rocket systems is essential. the calibration of a 6dof flight simulator is a challenging problem. this paper focuses on the calibration of a flight simulator and intends to answer the following questions: 1) does experimental design have significant impact on calibration quality? if so, which expe...

a time-domain approach is presented to calculate electromagnetic fields inside a large electromagnetic pulse (emp) simulator. this type of emp simulator is used for studying the effect of electromagnetic pulses on electrical apparatus in various structures such as vehicles, a reoplanes, etc. the simulator consists of three planar transmission lines. to solve the problem, we first model the meta...

The development of human-computer interfaces poses a challenging problem: actions and intentions of different users have to be inferred from sequences of noisy and ambiguous sensory data. Temporal fusion of multiple sensors can be efficiently formulated using dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs). DBN framework allows the power of statistical inference and learning to be combined with contextual kno...

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Biogeosciences (BG). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in BG if available. Abstract The average depth in the ocean at which the majority of sinking organic matter particles remineralise is a fundamental parameter in the oceans role in regulating atmospheric CO 2. Observed spatial patterns in sinking fluxes and relationsh...