There are many ways to assess face perception skills. In this study, we describe a novel task battery FEAST (Facial Expressive Action Stimulus Test) developed to test recognition of identity and expressions of human faces as well as stimulus control categories. The FEAST consists of a neutral and emotional face memory task, a face and shoe identity matching task, a face and house part-to-whole ...

Earlier this decade, the so-called FEAST algorithm was released for computing the eigenvalues of a matrix in a given interval. Previously, rational filter functions have been examined as a parameter of FEAST. In this thesis, we expand on existing work with the following contributions: (i) Obtaining well-performing rational filter functions via standard minimisation algorithms, (ii) Obtaining co...

BACKGROUND The emergence and continuing spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in cervids has now reached 14 U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and South Korea, producing a potential for transmission of CWD prions to humans and other animals globally. In 2005, CWD spread for the first time from the Midwest to more densely populated regions of the East Coast. As a result, a large cohort of in...

Bau Nyale is a Lombok Sasak tradition associated with Princess Mandalika's sacred and mythological qualities. Every year, this ritual carried out as manner of thanking Allah honoring sacrifice in preserving West Nusa Tenggara's integrity. This study aims to explain the distinction between sacredness economic commodification tradition. The research method used qualitative, sociological approach ...

BACKGROUND Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains the most effective acute treatment for severe major depression, but with significant risk of adverse cognitive effects. Unidirectional electrical stimulation with a novel electrode placement and geometry (Focal Electrically Administered Seizure Therapy (FEAST)) has been proposed as a means to initiate seizures in prefrontal cortex prior to seco...

Microorganisms are constantly exposed to rapidly changing conditions, under natural as well as industrial production scale environments, especially due to large-scale substrate mixing limitations. In this work, we present an experimental approach based on a dynamic feast/famine regime (400 s) that leads to repetitive cycles with moderate changes in substrate availability in an aerobic glucose c...

G Kahen, M M Lehman and J F Ramil Department of Computing Imperial College London SW7 2BZ tel: +44 (0)171 594 8216 fax: +44 (0)171 594 8215 {gk,mml,ramil}@doc.ic.ac.uk http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/projects/feast The Global Software Process The FEAST hypothesis [leh94] and the nature and results of the FEAST/1 study have been widely disseminated in the last three years, as may be seen from examin...

Feast and famine cycles are common in activated sludge wastewater treatment systems, and they select for bacteria that accumulate storage compounds, such as poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB). Previous studies have shown that variations in influent substrate concentrations force bacteria to accumulate high levels of rRNA compared to the levels in bacteria grown in chemostats. Therefore, it can be ...

The Frazerian question of murder turned into ritual sacrifice is foundational to cultural anthropology. Frazer described the antinomian figure a king, who was, at once, priest and murderer. Generations anthropologists have studied in ethnographic contexts theorized about its religious significance. But itself may turn problem, René Girard wrote “the sacrificial crisis”, when real issue failure ...