Several models have been proposed to account for the flash-lag effect. One criterion for evaluating alternative models is to consider the separate effects of motion predictability and flash predictability. We first established that flash predictability has an impact on the size of the perceived spatial offset in the flash-lag illusion. We then examined motion predictability by varying the consi...

Flash codes are used to handle decoding and encoding of digital information to flash memory devices. The performance of a flash code is usually evaluated using the write deficiency metric. This paper introduces the K-Partition Flash Code (KPFC) with BIFCbased sharing and explores some of its variants KPFC is a coding scheme that involves a sharing mechanism within partitions of a flash memory b...

Does the advent of flash devices constitute a radical change for secondary storage? How should database systems adapt to this new form of secondary storage? Before we can answer these questions, we need to fully understand the performance characteristics of flash devices. More specifically, we want to establish what kind of IOs should be favored (or avoided) when designing algorithms and archit...

A new parameterization of the lightning-produced NOx has been developed for cloud-resolving models. This parameterization is based on the unique characteristics of identifying which convective cells are capable of producing lightning based on a vertical velocity threshold and estimating the lightning flash rate in each convective cell from the non-precipitation and precipitation ice mass flux p...

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) require fast execution time and allow richer, faster, and more interactive experiences. Flash is a common technology for building RIAs. Flash programmers usually specialize in graphic design rather than programming. In addition, the tight schedule of projects makes the Flash programmers ignore non-functional characteristics such as the efficiency of their system...

The Solid State Disk (SSD) implemented using NAND flash memory significantly outperforms conventional rotating magnetic disk drive in read performance. However, write performance of flash based SSDs can be up to an order of magnitude slower than its read performance. This fundamental disparity is caused by the fact that flash write operations are immutable and a data sector must be erased befor...

This paper describes the usability of the vector-based animation program Macromedia Flash for presentations. After short overviews of common presentation techniques, advantages and disadvantages, useful features of Flash are described in detail. The function and performance of Flash for interactive e-learning applications is then presented, demonstrating the advantage of rich client technology ...

The brightness of a flash of light is reduced if it is followed a short time later by a second flash presented to a different region of the retina. Interaction between the rod and cone systems is examined in this after-flash effect for after-flash delays of from 300 to 1000 msec. The data indicate that rod-cone interaction in the effect can occur, and that in the dark-adapted eye the after-flas...

The brightness of a brief flash of light is reduced by the suitable presentation of a second flash in an adjacent region of the visual field. This making effect (metacontrast) can be induced dichoptically, that is with the test flash presented to one eye and the masking flash to the other. By a suitable choice of wavelengths and conditioning field, the test flash may be arranged to effectively ...

NAND flash memory does not support the overwrite operation and thus it deploys the flash translation layer which performs the out-place update. When designing a flash translation layer, memory consumption, computation complexity, and garbage collection overhead should be low. However, the representative sector mapping scheme of flash translation layer, FAST causes a huge computation complexity ...