The notion of "mind-reading" by carefully observing another individual's physiological responses has recently become commonplace in popular culture, particularly in the context of brain imaging. The question remains, however, whether outwardly accessible physiological signals indeed betray a decision before a person voluntarily reports it. In one experiment we asked observers to push a button a...

This paper proposes the implementation of digit-serial Canonical Signed-Digit (CSD) coefficient FIR filters which can be used as format conversion filters in place of the ones employed for the MPEG2 TM5 (test model 5). A canonical digit representation of signed numbers is used to reduce the complexities in multiply operations. Practical design guidelines of digit-serial CSD FIR filter are provi...

BACKGROUND Inclusion of information about a patient's work, industry, and occupation, in the electronic health record (EHR) could facilitate occupational health surveillance, better health outcomes, prevention activities, and identification of workers' compensation cases. The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has developed an autocoding system for "industry" and "...

Inflation dynamics in Turkey have been notoriously volatile for several decades. Starting the 1970 decade, inflation rates frequently reached three digit levels, remained high until 2000 and decreased to relatively low levels after 2001 as a consequence of series reforms. Considering alternating behavior Turkey, purpose this work is utilize different specifications, including time-varying trend...

This paper presents a novel eld-programmable gate array logic block architecture which incorporates support for digit-serial DSP architectures on a digit wide basis, without diminishing the support for random and control logic applications. To eeciently realize a digit-serial DSP design on FPGAs, one must create an FPGA architecture optimized for those types of systems. Key to the suitability o...

Males and females generally have different finger proportions. In males, digit 2 is shorter than digit 4, but in females digit 2 is the same length or longer than digit 4. The second- to fourth-digit (2D:4D) ratio correlates with numerous sexually dimorphic behavioral and physiological conditions. Although correlational studies suggest that digit ratios reflect prenatal exposure to androgen, th...

The ratio of the length of the second digit (index finger) divided by the fourth digit (ring finger) tends to be lower in men than in women. This 2D:4D digit ratio is often used as a proxy for prenatal androgen exposure in studies of human health and behavior. For example, 2D:4D ratio is lower (i.e. more "masculinized") in both men and women of greater physical fitness and/or sporting ability. ...

New cyclic n-digit Gray codes are constructed over {0, 1, . . . , R − 1} for all R,n ≥ 2. These codes have the property that the distribution of the digit changes (transition counts) is close to uniform: For every n ≥ 2, the number of occurrences of each digit in the n-digit codes is within R-1 of the average Rn/n, and for the 2-digit codes every transition count is either bR2/2c or dR2/2e.

Robots are rapidly becoming a key part of manufacturing in developed and emerging economies. This paper examines new channel for how automation can affect international trade: quality upgrading. Automation reduce production errors, particularly repetitive processes, leading to higher products. The effects robot use on export estimated, by combining cross-country cross-industry data industrial r...

Can the meaning of two-digit Arabic numbers be accessed independently of their verbal-phonological representations? To answer this question we explored the number processing of ZN, an aphasic patient with a syntactic deficit in digit-to-verbal transcoding, who could hardly read aloud two-digit numbers, but could read them as single digits ("four, two"). Neuropsychological examination showed tha...