Head direction cells change their firing rates as a function of the orientation of an animal within an environment. Typically, these cells display a unimodal tuning curve with maximal firing at the cell's preferred direction. As different cells have different preferred directions, the population of cells has been hypothesized to represent the orientation of the animal within the environment. Pr...

This paper provides a detailed analysis of how anisotropic diffusion filters work on seismic data. The conventional trace mixing filter is shown to be an implementation of a specific d i ffusion process. Diffusion filters have diff e rent forms, ranging from the simplest linear isotropic (L-I) diffusion to the most complex nonlinear anisotropic (NL-AI) diffusion. The NL-AI diffusion filter can ...

For many applications of scalable multicomputers with distributed memory it is desirable to provide transparent shared virtual memory. For such applications, the hardware and system software must maintain coherency among the local memories. Most existing coherency schemes for multicomputers manage memory uniformly at a single granularity of fixed size pages or cache blocks, leading to unnecessa...

Applications in finance and telecommunications (intelligent network, network management, mobile computing) cause renewed interest in distributed and replicated data management. Since synchronous update of replicated data is experienced to degrade distributed systems performance substantially, relaxing the requirement of coherency (mutual consistency) has become a favorable approach to achieve h...

The use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure functional connectivity among brain areas has the potential to identify neural networks associated with particular cognitive processes. However, fMRI signals are not a direct measure of neural activity but rather represent blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals. Correlated BOLD signals between two brain regions are the...