Physical cues influence social judgments of others. For example, shorter individuals are evaluated less positively than taller individuals. Here, we demonstrate that height also impacts one of the most consequential intergroup judgments—attributions of humanity—and explore whether this effect is modulated by the tendency to value hierarchy maintenance. In Study 1, the shorter participants perce...

BACKGROUND Double-triggering (DT) is a frequent type of patient-ventilator asynchrony and has potentially severe consequences, such as alveolar overdistention or the generation of intrinsic PEEP. However, the first breath of DT could be patient-triggered (DT-P), auto-triggered (DT-A), or ventilator-triggered (DT-V). OBJECTIVE To differentiate DT-P, DT-A, and DT-V using airway pressure or flow...

The spike-triggered average voltage (STV) is an experimentally measurable quantity that is determined by both the membrane response properties and the statistics of the synaptic drive. Here, the form of the STV is modelled for neurons with three distinct types of subthreshold dynamics; passive decay, h-current sag, and damped oscillations. Analytical expressions for the STV are first obtained i...

According to Brunel et al., the main complication of the technique is the risk of cracking or fracture of the tibial tuberosity. In this event the authors recommend conversion of the Maquet technique to the traditional TTA, as cerclage wires do not provide sufficient stability. Barthelemy et al. [8] reported the risk factors, complications, and owner satisfaction with the Maquet technique in 10...

Transport triggered architecture (TTA) has been shown to provide an efficient way to design application specific instruction set processors. However, the interconnection network of TTA is based on simple-bus, which consumes much extra power for specific data transport. In this paper, we employ segmented-bus to solve this problem. How to partition the buses lies on the placement of macro blocks,...

The spike-triggered average stimulus introduced in chapter 1 is a standard way of characterizing the selectivity of a neuron. In this chapter, we show how spike-triggered averages and reverse-correlation techniques can be used to construct estimates of firing rates evoked by arbitrary time-dependent stimuli. Firing rates calculated directly from reversecorrelation functions provide only a linea...

A conflict resolving parallel data memory system for Transport Triggered Architecture (TTA) is described. The architecture is generic and reusable to support various application specific designs. With parallel memory, more area and power consuming multi-port memory can be replaced with single-port memory modules. Number of ports can be increased over what is available on a design library for mu...

The MOVE project of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the TU Delft aims at designing and building high-performance processors by means of a new class of architectures called transporttriggered architectures. Transport-triggered architectures comprise a new class of architectures that are programmed by specifying data-transports instead of operations; they are particulary suited for ap...

In previous ASCI papers ([1], [2]), a processor development framework for Transport Triggered Architectures (TTAs) was presented. This paper discusses the application of this framework to the design of a processor aimed at different image processing algorithms. In particular, gray-scale neighborhood operations are considered. The applicability and advantages of special function units are discus...

Plants respond to pathogen infection using an innate immune system with at least two distinct recognition mechanisms. One mechanism recognizes microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs). The other is based on resistance (R) genes and specifically recognizes certain pathogen virulence factors, including those delivered through the type III secretion system (TTSS) of bacteria. Salicylic acid (...