In a natural environment, affective information is perceived via multiple senses, mostly audition and vision. However, the impact of multisensory information on affect remains relatively undiscovered. In this study, we investigated whether the auditory-visual presentation of aversive stimuli influences the experience of fear. We used the advantages of virtual reality to manipulate multisensory ...

Oxidative stress may alter the functions of many proteins including the Slo1 large conductance calcium-activated potassium channel (BKCa). Previous results demonstrated that in the virtual absence of Ca2+, the oxidant chloramine-T (Ch-T), without the involvement of cysteine oxidation, increases the open probability and slows the deactivation of BKCa channels formed by human Slo1 (hSlo1) alpha s...

Memory deduplication improves the utilization of physical memory by sharing identical blocks of data. Although memory deduplication is most effective when many virtual machines with same operating systems run on a CPU, cross-user memory deduplication is a covert channel and causes serious memory disclosure attack. It reveals the existence of an application or file on another virtual machine. Th...

Concept of Virtual accelerator is introduced to develop beam control application programs in the KEKB accelerator control system. A virtual accelerator is a computer process which simulates behavior of a beam in an accelerator and responds to the accelerator control program under development in a same way as an actual accelerator do. Users of the virtual accelerator can test their control algor...

Many wormhole interconnection networks for parallel systems, and more recently system area networks, implement virtual channels to provide a number of services including improved link utilization and lower latencies. The forwarding of flits from the virtual channels on to the physical channel is typically accomplished using Flit-Based Round-Robin (FBRR) scheduling. This paper presents a novel s...

Mobility indoors or outdoors is a problem for visually impaired people because of lacking the visual channel. Appropriate learning tools about spatial information could be used as a preparation for navigation before going to the real place. Current accessibility technologies, such as screen readers, do not well convey spatial layout or structure. In this paper, an study on accessing non-visual ...

This work considers the new design of variational probabilistic method for code-divisionmultiple access CDMA system over unknown frequency-selective channels by decomposing of the observation data into a number of signal components. The author designs the virtual trellis model representing the ISI channel for each separating signal user. The design of virtual trellis is used to generate extrins...

In this paper we investigate non dataaided channel estimation for OFDM systems. By exploiting channel diversity with multiple receive antennas, we propose a blind deterministic algorithm that can perfectly recover the channel response using only a single OFDM block. We study the extension of the proposed algorithm to the case when virtual carriers are present and provide some important identifi...

Cooperative relay communication is a promising means of wireless communication in which cooperation is used to create a virtual transmit array between the source and the destination, thereby providing the much-needed diversity to combat the fading channel. Consider a communication system in which there are a total of N + 1 nodes that cooperate in the communication between source node S and dest...