In memory consolidation, declarative memories which initially require the hippocampus for their recall, ultimately become independent of it. Consolidation has been the focus of numerous experimental and qualitative modeling studies, but only little quantitative exploration. We present a consolidation model in which hierarchical connections in the cortex, that initially instantiate purely semant...

I. G. Doran and J. D. McKinley, Queen’s University Belfast The paper proposes the use of an approximation, suggested by Hansen, to the exact analytical solution of the Terzaghi consolidation equation, as the basis for the determination of the coefficient of consolidation from the results of a consolidation test using a least squares error adjustment procedure. This is an area of considerable pr...

Server consolidation of virtual machines is very much essential in a cloud environment for energy conservation and cost cutting . Consolidation can be achieved through live migration of virtual machines. We propose a modified bin packing algorithm for Server Consolidation that avoids unnecessary migrations and minimizes the instantiation of new physical servers. We implement ideas from the Firs...

Consolidation and integration have been subjects of interest in recent Chi Solutions, Inc. (Chi) webinars and research projects, as well as ongoing topics of discussion at national industry meetings and seminars. While some use the terms “consolidation” and “integration” interchangeably, they do have different meanings and strategies. Consolidation is about bringing as much testing as possible ...

system at an increasing rate. Merging companies often tout benefits including cost savings and increased care coordination, but serious concerns about market power also need to be raised. It is critically important to scrutinize future mergers because of their impact on an already excessively concentrated healthcare marketplace. This research brief looks at the types of consolidation, the facto...

Physical properties of anisotropic superconductors like the critical temperature and others depend sensitively on the electron mean free path. The sensitivity to impurity scattering and the resulting anomalies are considered a characteristic feature of strongly anisotropic pairing. These anomalies are usually analyzed in terms of s-wave impurity scattering which leads to universal pair breaking...

The triaxiality of the stress state is known to greatly influence the amount of plastic strain which a material may undergo before ductile failure occurs. It is defined as the ratio of hydrostatic pressure, or mean stress, to the von Mises equivalent stress. This paper discusses the effects of stress triaxiality on yielding behavior of anisotropic materials. Hill-von Mises’s criteria for anisot...

Between-sessions gains in the texture discrimination task have been attributed to memory consolidation. A strong dependence of consolidation on sleep was suggested though not always supported by experimental results. Here we suggest that the interaction between consolidation and sleep depends on the adaptation level obtained during the training session. We find that both discrimination threshol...

The "wait-for-all" feedback consolidation algorithm avoids consolidation noise, but suuers from a slow transient response. Probabilistic Aggregation and Fast Overload Indication techniques have been proposed to preserve the advantages of the "wait-for-all" algorithm and improve its slow transient response. However, these techniques introduce a new "threshold setting" problem. We developed a new...