The Yakhot and Orszag RNG theory of turbulence has generated a number of scaling law constants in reasonable quantitative agreement with experiments. The theory itself is highly mathematical, and its assumptions and approximations are not easily appreciated, particularly since several rather unconventional artifices are employed. The present paper reviews the RNG theory and recasts it in more c...

We obtain the general inflationary solutions for the slab of five-dimensional AdS spacetime where the fifth dimension is an orbifold S/Z2 and two threebranes reside at its boundaries, of which the Randall-Sundrum model corresponds to the static limit. The investigation of the general solutions and their static limit reveals that the RS model recasts both the cosmological constant problem and th...

A companion paper introduced the rERP framework, which recasts traditional event-related potential (ERP) averaging as a special case of a more flexible regression-based approach to estimating ERP waveforms. Here, we build on this foundation, showing how rERP analysis can also handle the estimation of nonlinear effects (a generalization of both the well-known approach of dichotomizing continuous...

Blum andAbbott (1995) recently proposed an algorithm for learned navigation that is based on Hebbian changes to adaptive connections between place cells in the hippocampus. This paper suggests using a temporal difference rule (Sutton, 1988) for synaptic plasticity instead, and shows how this alters the resulting behaviour. It also recasts the problem of navigation into the reinforcement learnin...