We study the convergence rate of MCMC on the statistically unidentifiable nonlinear model involving the Michaelis-Menten kinetic equation. We have shown that, under certain conditions, the convergence diagnosis of Raftery and Lewis (1992) is consistent with the convergence rate argued by Brooks and Roberts (1999). Therefore, different MCMC schemes developed in linear models are further extended...

Despite the importance of perspective taking for navigating the social world, even healthy adults frequently misinterpret what other people think and feel. Yet, to date, no research examines whether perspective-taking accuracy can be improved among healthy adult samples. Building off of work suggesting that social working memory (SWM) capacity (i.e., the ability to maintain and manipulate socia...

Sensitivity analysis on Sea Surface Temperature: SST estimation with Thermal Infrared Radiometer: TIR data through simulations is conducted. Also Conjugate Gradient Method: CGM based SST estimation method is proposed. SST estimation error of the proposed CGM based method is compared to the conventional Split Window Method: SWM with a variety of conditions including atmospheric models. The resul...

Up to 2002, Hellenic Solid Waste Management (SWM) policy specified that each of the country’s 54 prefectural governments plan its own SWM system. After 2002, this authority was shifted to the country’s 13 regions entirely. In this paper, we compare and contrast regional and prefectural SWM planning in Central Macedonia. To design the prefectural plan, we assume that each prefecture must be self...

In this paper, we experiment with a small working model (SWM), where we can inject faults and learn the intelligence about the system, then scale up this fault models to monitor the condition of an actual/complex system, without injecting faults in the actual system. We refer to this approach as scalable fault models. We check the effectiveness of our approach using 3 kVA and 5 kVA synchronous ...

Acetylcholine and dopamine are neurotransmitters that play multiple important roles in perception and cognition. Pharmacological cholinergic enhancement reduces excitatory receptive field size of neurons in marmoset primary visual cortex and sharpens the spatial tuning of visual perception and visual cortical fMRI responses in humans. Moreover, previous studies show that manipulation of choline...

Previous studies of motor learning have described the importance of cognitive processes during the early stages of learning; however, the precise nature of these processes and their neural correlates remains unclear. The present study investigated whether spatial working memory (SWM) contributes to visuomotor adaptation depending on the stage of learning. We tested the hypothesis that SWM would...

Spatial working memory (SWM) is fundamental to cognition by caching behaviorally relevant cues on a timescale of seconds and by tapping into several executive processes including encoding, maintenance and retrieval of information for adaptive behavioral response. The striatum plays a critical role in gating WM representations, but the specific contribution of the striatal indirect pathway to WM...

An overview is given of current operational methods for retrieving two-dimensional ocean wave spectra from near real-time ERS-1 SAR wave mode (SWM) imagette spectra. The SWM data quality and performance of the WASAR algorithm are assessed. Sensitivity analyses and validation studies are performed using two-dimensional NOAA buoy data as well as TOPEX and ERS-1 altimeter-derived signiicant wave h...