Attachment to a place is a positive emotional relation between a person and a place that leads to the significance of a place for the people staying there. Several studies have been presented about the sense of attachment to one or more locations around the world that each of them has evaluated the subject from a specific view and has achieved different results. This research tries to assess th...

We use the concept of third place as a lens to understand and catalogue the natural socializing practices of Brazilians within a chronic care hospital setting in order to understand natural practices that can be used on the design of NUI technologies to support Brazilian sociability and communities. Third places, as introduced by Oldenburg, are places that lie in-between the seriousness of work...

FIFA and UEFA are experimenting with a new system for penalty shootouts. The new system is designed to attenuate the well known bias in favor of the first shooter in a shootout sequence (Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (2010)). The system currently in place, called ABAB, has shooters from each team alternate in shooting a penalty. If the two teams are A and B, then the sequence goes ABABABA. . ....

We study the relations between Multi-valued Decision Diagrams (MDD) and tuples (i.e. elements of the Cartesian Product of variables). First, we improve the existing methods for transforming a set of tuples, Global Cut Seeds, sequences of tuples into MDDs. Then, we present some in-place algorithms for adding and deleting tuples from an MDD. Next, we consider an MDD constraint which is modified d...

This papers extends in three ways our previous work about efficient operations on Multi-valued Decision Diagrams (MDD) for building Constraint Programming models. First, we improve the existing methods for transforming a set of tuples, Global Cut Seeds or sequences of tuples into MDDs. Then, we present in-place algorithms for adding and deleting tuples from an MDD. Finally, we describe an incre...

Place and Route Techniques for FPGA Architecture Advancement

A measurement 1,2 is presented of diffractive dijet production in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) interactions at HERA of the type ep→ eXY , where the X system is separated by a large rapidity gap from a low-mass leading baryonic system Y . The data are consistent with QCD factorisation in diffractive DIS and yield tight constraints on both shape and normalisation of the diffractive gluon distr...

Dominant theories of hippocampal function propose that place cell representations are formed during an animal's first encounter with a novel environment and are subsequently replayed during off-line states to support consolidation and future behaviour. Here we report that viewing the delivery of food to an unvisited portion of an environment leads to off-line pre-activation of place cells seque...

Since their discovery, the strikingly regular and spatially stable firing of entorhinal grid cells has attracted the attention of experimentalists and theoreticians alike. The bulk of this work has focused either on the assumption that the principal role of grid cells is to support path integration or the extent to which their multiple firing locations can drive the sparse activity of hippocamp...