Research on the cognitive consequences of bilingualism suggests a bilingual advantage: early experience with more than one language predicts better inhibitory control of attention. The mechanisms responsible for this advantage, however, are not well understood. We ask whether depth and time-course of memory encoding may be responsible. We measured bilingual and monolingual adults’ memory for no...

We propose and analyze an information-sharing application for wireless intervehicular networks, called Infoshare. Infoshare leverages the broadcast nature of the wireless medium to achieve maximum spreading of information queries among vehicles, while a smart caching policy limits the overhead resulting from useless queries and duplicated replies. We first evaluate the performance of Infoshare ...

The language of entropy is examined for consistency with its mathematics and physics, and for its efficacy as a guide to what entropy means. Do common descriptors such as disorder, missing information, and multiplicity help or hinder understanding? Can the language of entropy be helpful in cases where entropy is not well defined? We argue in favor of the descriptor spreading, which entails spac...

Coating of a surface by droplet spreading plays an important role in many novas industrial processes, such as plasma spray coating, ink jet printing, nano safeguard coatings and nano self-assembling. Data analysis of nano and micro droplet spreading can be widely used to predict and optimize coating processes. In this article, we want to select the most appropriate statistical distribution for ...

The nodes with large degree exhibit a powerful information spreading capability in networks. It is always obvious that the popularity nodes can spread the information to more people in opportunistic networks. Many researchers try to speed up the spreading velocity by the popularity nodes. In this paper the information spreading dynamics in opportunistic networks is investigated. It is found tha...

Exploring the interplay between information spreading and epidemic spreading is a topic that has been receiving increasing attention. As an efficient means of depicting the spreading of information, which manifests as a cascade phenomenon, awareness cascading is utilized to investigate this coupled transmission. Because in reality, different individuals facing the same epidemic will exhibit dis...

Indexing cases on features has been shown to be a successful method of retrieving experiential knowledge for many single-task systems. However, discovering a general set of indices for retrieving cross-contextual information in a multi-use knowledge base is impractical. We present a method for retrieving crosscontextuM information based on knowledgedirected spreading activation in a semantic ne...