Higher Order Ambisonics have been increasingly investigated in the past years, and found promising as a rational, scalable and flexible way to encode, transmit and render 3D sound fields. Nevertheless, studies concerning virtual source imaging or natural 3D sound encoding mainly focussed on the directional encoding of plane waves, and neglected the near field effect of finite distance sources t...

This article presents an integrative model mapping the field of intergroup communication. Building from Lasswell’s (1948) communication, our map discusses how communication about and between groups can be understood by separating concepts (sender/receiver, message, channel, effect). We present articles in current special issue as examples fitting within illustrate suggests some interesting exte...

This paper presents a novel asynchronous architecture of Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to reduce the power consumption. In the dynamic power consumption of the conventional FPGAs, the power consumed by the switch blocks and clock distribution is dominant since FPGAs have complex switch blocks and the large number of registers for high programmability. To reduce the power consumption of...

The complete definition of a Neuro-Symbolic Language, partially introduced in [1], for monotonic and non-monotonic logical inference by means of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is presented. Both the language and its compiler have been designed and implemented. It has been shown that the ANN model here adopted (NFC – Neural Forward Chaining [2]) is a massively parallel abstract interpreter of...