During the development of the nervous system, neurons often connect axons and dendrites over long distances, which are navigated by chemical cues. During the past few decades, studies on axon guidance have focused on chemical cues provided by the axonal target or intermediate target. However, recent studies have shed light on the roles and mechanisms underlying axon-axon interactions during neu...

Isolated kidneys taken from normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats were cross-perfused extracorporeally by normotensive strain-matched donor rats. The extracorporeal perfusion circuit was arranged so that the perfusion pressure to the normotensive recipient kidney could be varied from 90 to 200 mm Hg without any change in total flow through this circuit. This setup avoided hemodynamic or mechanical int...

floorplanning is an important step in physical design of vlsi circuits. it is used to plan the positions of a set of circuit modules on a chip in order to optimize the circuit performance. however, modern floorplanning takes better care of providing extra options to place dedicated modules in the hierarchical designs to align circuit blocks one by one within certain bounding box for helping seq...

This document describes a strawman specification for an Argument Interchange Format (AIF) that might be used for data exchange between Argumentation tools or communication in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The document started life as a skeleton for contributions from participants in the Technical Forum Group meeting in Budapest in September 2005, receiving also input from third parties. The result...

This paper introduces OVA+, an on-line interface for the analysis of arguments. It is the result of an attempt to provide a tool relying on the Argument Interchange Format theory and Inference Anchoring Theory schemes.

In this paper, we present an extension to the recently proposed Argument Interchange Format (AIF) to capture Walton’s argument schemes.

On the basis, of the condition for demouldability, two levels of visibility, complete and partial visibility, are defined. The viewing directions from which a surface is completely visible can be represented as a convex region on the unit sphere called the visibility map of the surface. Algorithms are given for dividing a given object into pockets, for which visibility and demouldability can be...

Breakwaters are marine structures useful for the safe harbouring of ships and the protection of harbours from sedimentation and coasts from erosion. Breakwater monitoring is then a critical part of coastal engineering research, since it is crucial to know the state of a breakwater at any time in order to evaluate its health in terms of stability and plan restoration works. In this paper we pres...

In this paper a bifurcation analysis of a piecewise-affine discrete-time dynamical system is carried out. Such a system derives from a well-known map which has good features from its circuit implementation point of view and good statistical properties in the generation of pseudo-random sequences. The considered map is a generalization of it and the bifurcation parameters take into account some ...

The ability to make three-dimensional measurements of surface topography is important to the control of quality in the fabrication ofIC wafers. We describe a technique usingshape from shadingto produce a dense depth map from ICs imaged in the scanning electron microscope. The method minimises error terms to ensure the resultant surface is everywhere continuous and accurately explains the observ...