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The formation of new sound categories is fundamental to everyday goal-directed behavior. Categorization requires the abstraction of discrete classes from continuous physical features as required by context and task. Electrophysiology in animals has shown that learning to categorize novel sounds alters their spatiotemporal neural representation at the level of early auditory cortex. However, fun...

The skeletal muscle membranes of these reptiles are found to exhibit membrane potentials, as being permeable to Na+, K+ and Cl– [4-7]. These muscle cell membrane electrical potentials/ characteristics have been divided into active and passive categories; the passive electrical characteristics show some thermal dependency in different species of the animals [8,9]. As the, passive electrical prop...

Automatic Identification System (AIS), as a major data source of navigational data, is widely used in the application of connected ships for the purpose of implementing maritime situation awareness and evaluating maritime transportation. Efficiently extracting featured data from AIS database is always a challenge and time-consuming work for maritime administrators and researchers. In this paper...

this article deals with two main issues: firstly, it investigates the status of sanai's poetry in the development of dehkhoda dictionary. to achieve this end, examples cited from sanai's poems by the authors of dehkhoda dictionary have been examined. the study reveals that in quite a good number of cases, sanai's poems have been the exclusive source for the borrowed examples and the dictionary ...

This paper deals with the statistical segmentation of multisensor images. In a Bayesian context, the interest of using hidden Markov random fields, which allows one to take contextual information into account, has been well known for about 20 years. In other situations, the Bayesian framework is insufficient and one must make use of the theory of evidence. The aim of our work is to propose evid...

This paper discusses the complex relations among the direct evidential -te, person, and experiencer predicates in Korean. The questions of the paper are: (i) how the three components are related with each other in the evidential sentences, and (ii) how the interactions of the three components can be formally analyzed to correctly license only the wellformed evidential sentences. I show that in ...

background: human beings use different approaches to learning. thus the aim of this study is to explore the mechanisms of learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students. methods: this qualitative study, involving 24 baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students, was done by purposeful sampling strategies. the data were collected using se...

The paper deals with some features of Late Classical Chinese based on material from «Lunheng» (1st century AD), specifically, the process 被 bèi grammaticalization and its possibility to be a distinctive context for noun lexemes. In modern Chinese, is passive marker in sentences such as O SV. There also short form like V, which initial stage formation construction, while full appears late mediev...