We present a property of neat reducts commuting with forming subalgebras as a definability condition. The purpose of this paper is to relate results on neat reducts, a notion particular to cylindric algebras to results on the “more universal” strong amalgamation property in a very general setting. It is known [7], [8] and [6] that amalgamation properties in a class of algebras correspond to int...

In this issue of Neuron, Kiani et al. (2015) show that the correlated activity of multiple simultaneously recorded neurons can be used to identify, in a completely un-biased manner, distinct functional domains within prefrontal and (pre)motor cortex of macaque monkeys.

this paper will introduce a new method to obtain the order weightsof the ordered weighted averaging (owa) operator. we will first show therelation between fuzzy quantifiers and neat owa operators and then offer anew combination of them. fuzzy quantifiers are applied for soft computingin modeling the optimism degree of the decision maker. in using neat operators,the ordering of the inputs is not...

The human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus acquires heme iron from hemoglobin (Hb) via the action of a series of iron-regulated surface determinant (Isd) proteins. The cell wall anchored IsdB protein is recognized as the predominant Hb receptor, and is comprised of two NEAr transporter (NEAT) domains that act in concert to bind, extract, and transfer heme from Hb to downstream Isd proteins. Struc...

Evolution of neural networks, through genetic algorithms or otherwise, hasrecently emerged as a possible way to solve challenging reinforcement learningproblems; NEAT (or NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies), is a particularlypowerful such method. Because it is based on evolving a population of solutions,where individuals are evaluated on a number of test episodes, the c...

Electrochemical SERS (E-SERS) was used for the first time to study the interfacial behavior of a class of pyridinium-based biodegradable ionic liquids at a silver nanoparticle (AgNP) electrode surface. An isomeric series of ionic liquids (IL) based on 3-butoxycarbonyl-1-methylpyridinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide were prepared, which have demonstrable biodegradability. It was found that...

Aggregation of nicotinamide (3-pyridine-carboxamide; NA) and picolinamide (2-pyridine-carboxamide; PA) has been investigated by matrix-isolation, supersonic jet and neat solid state infrared spectroscopy, complemented by DFT(B3LYP)/6-311++G(d,p) calculations. For both compounds, the most stable dimeric structure was shown to be the centrosymmetric dimer where two monomers in their most stable f...

In this paper, the effect of reclaimed rubber modification on the rheological characteristics of asphalt binders is studied. Reclaimed rubber with the extent of 12, 16 and 20 is added to the neat asphalt binder and then shear complex modulus is obtained for neat and modified asphalt binder via Dynamic Shear Rheometer (DSR) test. Using Christensen-Anderson- Marasteanu (CAM) model, master curves ...

In this paper, we extend the definition of transition systems, as well as the definition of elementary net systems, by a notion of final states and provide a solution to the synthesis problem of elementary net systems with final configurations. Furthermore, we present how to simplify complex sets of final configurations of an elementary net system by introducing the notion of neat places. A pla...

A major challenge in computer-generated music is to produce music that sounds natural. This paper introduces NEAT Drummer, which takes steps toward natural creativity. NEAT Drummer evolves a kind of artificial neural network called a Compositional Pattern Producing Network (CPPN) with the NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) method to produce drum patterns. An important motivation for...