A large-scale experimental study has been conducted at the Coriolis Rotating Platform to investigate dynamics of uni- and bi-directional exchange flows along a channel with trapezoidal cross section under influence background rotation. High-resolution two-dimensional particle image velocimetry micro-conductivity probes were used obtain detailed velocity fields density profiles flow generated ac...

The causation relationship between economic growth and military expenditures in developing countries has received growing focus in recent years. One of the arguments in this field is that military spending absorbs a significant proportion of the limited financial resources in LDCs. The present study examines the causal relation in two models: defense spending with total real economic growth and...

Machine comprehension (MC), answering a query about a given context paragraph, requires modeling complex interactions between the context and the query. Recently, attention mechanisms have been successfully extended to MC. Typically these methods use attention to focus on a small portion of the context and summarize it with a fixed-size vector, couple attentions temporally, and/or often form a ...

Irradiance and radiance caching are important algorithms for solving the light transport problem in realistic image synthesis. ey both require geometric search data structures for efficient rendering. Our goal was to improve the caching algorithms by improving these data structures. We have implemented 6 different data structures for irradiance caching, 2 previously used and 4 newly adapted to...

Implementation architectures of today are based on the modularisation of software into objects, components, web services, (intelligent) agents, ... with communication and coordination between components being based on peer-topeer communication (a client-component requests a service from a servercomponent). Because this binary and uni-directional form of communication implies substantial restric...

This paper presents our new approach to model tone coarticulation of Chinese continuous speech for tone recognition. We suggest that coarticulation effects between two neighboring tones are rather unstable, since they may be uni-directional, bi-directional, or none despite of the same phonetic contexts. Instability is suggested due to non-local prosodic events like prosodic phrase boundaries or...

The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate the interactions between various taxes and GDP, and to detect whether taxes function as an automatic stabilizer in Turkey. Firstly, When using a time series unit-root test as proposed by Dickey-Fuller (1979), econometric findings revealed that taxes and level of GDP are not static. Secondly, upon employing cointegration designed by Johans...

Although recent fMRI and single unit recording studies have shown that attention modulates neural activity in motion sensitive areas of extrastriate cortex, these approaches cannot reveal qualitative or quantitative effects of attention on perception of motion. To investigate this, we asked observers to select one of two orthogonal directions in a brief, transparent dot display (prime) and then...