Larval and post-larval crab distribution was surveyed in three different habitats in Kachemak Bay, Alaska to determine temporal and spatial variability. Distribution varied temporally and spatially from June 2005 to September 2006. Nine sites of varying habitat complexity were surveyed monthly using scuba surveys and light traps to measure habitat variables and quantify crab zoeae and megalopae...

The relationship between working memory and deliberative processing was examined in a human contingency learning experiment that employed the combined positive and negative patterning procedure of Shanks and Darby (1998). Participants with a large working memory capacity showed generalization consistent with the application of an opposites rule (i.e., a compound and its elements signal opposite...

This work presents a morphological analysis of the evolution of the lateral foot shape with different heel heights. The purpose of the study was to set up a procedure to obtain the shank curve of feet for different heel heights and to develop a mathematical algorithm to calculate this curve for any heel height. This will have applications in the design of shoe components such as soles, lasts, s...

was regarded as being one of inoperable carcinoma of the cervix. Her condition was so serious that this diagnosis could not be verified and she died in a few days. She was a parous woman with no striking previous history. The chart showed a subnormal temperature throughout the period during which she was in hospital. No report regarding the blood picture of the patient is available. Fortunately...

Causal inferences about sparsely observed objects are often supported by causal schemata, or systems of abstract causal knowledge. We present a hierarchical Bayesian framework that learns simple causal schemata given only raw data as input. Given a set of objects and observations of causal events involving some of these objects, our framework simultaneously discovers the causal type of each obj...

A classification of LSI polynomials into optimal and suboptimal LSI polynomials is presented in this note. By an example it is shown that a suboptimal LSI polynomial can be unstable even if the original polynomial does not have any zeros on the unit circle. This has invalidated the proof for modified Shanks’ conjecture in the 2-D case as presented in the paper’ leaving the conjecture to remain ...

Rumelhart & Zipser's (1986) competitive learning algorithm is an account of unsupcrvised learning and, as such, might be considered a potential model of free classification behavior in humans. However, selective learning effects (e.g. Dickinson, Shanks & Evenden, 1984) suggest that human learning, ai least under conditions of feedback, may be better characterized by an error-correcting system. ...

Badley, R. A., R. A. L. Drake, I. A. Shanks, A. M. Smith, and P. R. Stephenson. 1987. Optical biosensors for immunoassays: the fluorescence capillary-fill device. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 316:143–60. Jumarhon, B., and S. McKee. 1995. On the heat equation with nonlinear and nonlocal boundary conditions. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 190:806–...

A rapid method for determining whether the real quadratic field Sí = S(\/D) has class number one is described. The method makes use of the infrastructure idea of Shanks to determine the regulator of .W and then uses the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis to rapidly estimate L(l, x) to the accuracy needed for determining whether or not the class number of 3£ is one. The results of running this algor...

A significant part of everyday learning occurs incidentally — a process typically described as implicit learning. A central issue in this and germane domains such as language acquisition is the extent to which performance depends on the acquisition and deployment of abstract rules. In an attempt to address this question, we show that the apparent use of such rules in a simple categorisation tas...