We study the relationship between ADHM/Nahm construction and “solution generating technique” of BPS solitons in noncommutative gauge theories. ADHM/Nahm construction and “solution generating technique” are the most strong ways to construct exact BPS solitons. Localized solitons are the solitons which are generated by the “solution generating technique.” The shift operators which play crucial ro...

Action research is an established qualitative research method in use for scholarly investigations in information systems, business management, and human, behavioral and medical sciences. Action research aims at building and testing theory within the context of solving an immediate practical problem in a real setting. However in construction this research approach is relatively new and not many ...

We estimate the extent of upper tropospheric aerosol layers (UT ALs) surrounding mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and explore the relationships between UT AL extent and the morphology, location, and developmental stage of collocated MCSs in the tropics. Our analysis is based on satellite data collected over equatorial Africa, South Asia, and the Amazon basin between June 2006 and June 2008. ...

As a result of their unpredictable ability to adapt to varying environmental conditions, microorganisms inhabit different types of biological niches on Earth. Owing to the key role of microorganisms in many biogeochemical processes, trends in modern microbiology emphasize the need to know and understand the structure and function of complex microbial communities. This is particularly important ...

Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a formalism for defining the inventory of lexical and grammatical conventions that language processing requires and the operations with which this inventory is used to parse and produce sentences. This chapter introduces some of the key ideas and basic design principles behind the development of Fluid Construction Grammar.

German case syncretism is often assumed to be the accidental by-product of historical development. This paper contradicts this claim and argues that the evolution of German case is driven by the need to optimize the cognitive effort and memory required for processing and interpretation. This hypothesis is supported by a novel kind of computational experiments that reconstruct and compare attest...

Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is an open-source computational grammar formalism that is becoming increasingly popular for studying the history and evolution of language. This demonstration shows how FCG can be used to operationalise the cultural processes and cognitive mechanisms that underly language evolution and change.

Stud welding is a process used in the construction industry to anchor concrete slabs to underlying steel substructures . This process is highly repetitive and, thus, a good candidate for automation. A robotic device, the Studmaster , has been developed which will automate stud welding currently done in the construction of industrial buildings. This machine, currently controlled by a microcomput...

In this Article the Authors incorrectly stated that they had developed a novel method termed bisulfite amplicon sequencing (BSAS). The method was reported by Masser et al. (reference 18 in the Article). Thus the following sentence (which appears verbatim in ref. 18): " By combining the benefits of bisulfite conversion, targeted amplification, tagmentation-based library construction , and NGS, w...

There is great interest in using automatic computational neuroanatomy tools to study ageing and neurodegenerative disease. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) is one of the most widely used of such techniques. VBM performs voxel-wise statistical analysis of smoothed spatially normalised segmented Magnetic Resonance Images. There are several reasons why the analysis should include only voxels within a...