Neocortical connectivity displays striking regularities that self-organize via epigenetic interactions with activity. We construe this self-structuration as a process of spatiotemporal pattern formation in a simple neural network model. Starting from random connections, ordered “synfire-chain” structures and wave-like correlations emerge simultaneously and reinforce each other through cooperati...

Twitter has provided a social platform for everyone to enter the previously exclusive world of the internet, enriching this online social tapestry with cultural diversity and enabling revolutions. We believe this same tool can be used to also change the world of music creation. Thus we present MMODM, an online drum machine based on the Twitter streaming API, using tweets from around the world t...

With the flurry of research on P2P computing, many P2P technical challenges have emerged, one of which is how to efficiently locate desired resources. Advances have been made in this hot research field, where the pioneers are Pastry, CAN, Chord, and Tapestry. By using the functionality of distributed hash table, they have achieved fair effectiveness. However, they have many common limitations, ...

Structured peer-to-peer (p2p) overlay networks like CAN, Chord, Pastry and Tapestry [3, 6, 5, 9] provide a self-organizing substrate for large-scale peer-to-peer applications. These systems provide efficient, fault-tolerant routing, object location and load balancing within a selforganization overlay network. In this paper, we show how redundant information that is collected as part of the norm...

The worldwide interest in everyday culture, ways of living and doing things which underpin our sense of place is palpable. We have come to appreciate that there is an abundant culture out there with a rich array of meaning and significance. Nowhere is this more abundant than in Asia where outstanding examples of the continuous living/nourishing tradition of history are part of an intricate and ...

Primary care providers are critical in providing and optimizing health care to an aging population. This paper describes the volunteer component of a program (Health TAPESTRY) which aims to encourage the delivery of effective primary health care in novel and proactive ways. As part of the program, volunteers visited older adults in their homes and entered information regarding health risks, nee...

Scalable overlay networks such as Chord, CAN, Pastry, and Tapestry have recently emerged as flexible infrastructure for building large peer-to-peer systems. In practice, such systems have two disadvantages: They provide no control over where data is stored and no guarantee that routing paths remain within an administrative domain whenever possible. SkipNet is a scalable overlay network that pro...

n 1955, the African National Congress (ANC) held its historic Congress of the People to ratify its liberation manifesto, the Freedom Charter. This event took place in Kliptown, on the outskirts of Soweto (fig. 1, above), at a site that came to be called Freedom Square in honor of the occasion. Today Freedom Square is an open, windswept tract of land, lying between a shack settlement, a railway ...

Sound segments have traditionally occupied a central place in phonetic science. Other sound aspects have been conceptualized in a broader, suprasegmental frame as prosodies, especially pitch, but also energy, voice quality, rhythm. This has resulted in the current dichotomous research paradigm of sounds and prosodies. This paper takes a new look at this division, as a useful initial heuristics ...

This article employs a metaphor of weaving in order to analyze, both historically and critically, the art and science of occupational therapy. To spark reflection about where occupational therapy has been, is now, and would like to progress as the new century approaches, the article is thematically organized around the profession's two most fundamental convictions. These convictions are termed ...