Research on consciousness is currently enjoying a spectacular revival of interest in the cognitive sciences. From an empirical point of view, the NCC program — the search for the “Neural Correlates of Consciousness” — holds the promise of establishing correlations between physiological and phenomenal states in a way that directly resembles G. T. Fechner ́s (1860) so-called “inner psychophysics”....

This paper reviews the concept of image mosaicking and presents a comparison between two of the most common image mosaicing techniques. The first technique is based on normalized cross correlation (NCC) for registering overlapping 2D images of a 3D scene. The second is based on mutual information (MI). The experimental results demonstrate that the two techniques have a similar performance in mo...

From which regions of the brain do conscious representations of visual stimuli emerge? This is an important but controversial issue in neuroscience because some studies have reported a major role of the higher visual regions of the ventral pathway in conscious perception, whereas others have found neural correlates of consciousness as early as in the primary visual areas and in the thalamus. On...

In this paper, a new classification method that uses a clustering method to reduce the train set of K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) classifier and also in order to enhance its performance is proposed. The proposed method is called Nearest Cluster Classifier (NCC). Inspiring the traditional K-NN algorithm, the main idea is to classify a test sample according to the tag of its nearest neighbor. First, t...

This paper compares several approaches for dynamic allocation in geo-stationary networks based on DVB-RCS system. Each Satellite Terminal (ST) regularly sends requests to the Network Control Center (NCC) which in turn allocates resource to the users. Unfortunately, this delayed request-assignment makes the dynamic bandwidth allocation very difficult. Simple mechanisms such as a fixed allocation...

We present a method for motion estimation using ordinal measures. Ordinal measures are based on relative ordering of intensity values in a image region called rank permutation. While popular measures like the sum-of squared-difference ( S S D ) and normalized correlation (NCC) rely on linearity between corresponding intensity values, ordinal measures only require them to be monotonically relate...

The Baltic Sea has traditionally been considered as a semi-enclosed marginal sea with little or no inß uence on the adjacent oceans. We employ an eddy-permitting, coupled ice-ocean model of the Pan-Arctic region to study the Baltic Sea, especially its circulation and property exchanges with the North Sea and other regions. Using this high-resolution and large scale model we focus here on the fr...

There are two concepts of consciousness that are easy to confuse with one another, access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness. However, just as the concepts of water and H2O are different concepts of the same thing, so the two concepts of consciousness may come to the same thing in the brain. The focus of this paper is on the problems that arise when these two concepts of consciousness a...

Why do some clusters have cool cores while others do not? In this paper, cosmological simulations, including radiative cooling and heating, are used to examine the formation and evolution of cool core (CC) and non-cool core (NCC) clusters. Numerical CC clusters at z = 0 accreted mass more slowly over time and grew enhanced cool cores via hierarchical mergers; when late major mergers occurred, t...

Rapidly developing research in neurophysiology has challenged classical cognitive models based on behavioral evidence. Studies looking more closely at the relationship between cognitive function and the brain structure have shed new light on how the mental processes are physically implemented in the brain. Regardless of whether the neural correlate of cognition is dispersed (the activity of a p...