This article describes a method for representing and simulating Ordinary Di erential Equation (ODE) systems which are imprecise { that is, where the ODE model contains both parametric and functional uncertainty. Such models, while useful in engineering tasks such as design and hazard analysis, are not used in practice because they require either special structures which limit the describable un...

It is widely accepted that the lithospheric mantle under the North China craton (NCC) has undergone comprehensive refertilization due to input from surrounding subducted slabs. However, the possible contribution from the Paleo-Asian oceanic slab to the north is poorly constrained, largely because of the lack of convincing evidence for the existence of this slab under the NCC. We report here car...

There are still a lot of open questions in the field of sensor networks. In the first part we address the problem of interference. Energy consumption in general and interference in particular being among the most critical issues in sensor networks, we introduce an explicit definition of interference, based on the number of other nodes by which a given network node can be disturbed. With this de...

We introduce the concept of non-cooperative computation (NCC), which is the joint computation of a function by self-motivated agents, where each of the agents possesses one of the inputs to the function. In NCC the agents communicate their input (truthfully or not) to a trusted center, which performs a commonly-known computation and distributes the results to the agents. The question is whether...

In this paper, we present a method for handling double-talk. This approach uses a robust fast recursive least-squares algorithm (FRLS) and the normalized cross-correlation double-talk detector (NCC DTD). The NCC DTD is developed into a fast version, called FNCC, by reusing computational results from the FRLS algorithm. The major advantage of this detector is that it is much less dependent on th...

This is the thesis the authors aim to discredit. But before examining their argument, consider straightforward common sense. Imagine a 10-year old boy. Ask him to read a comic book and to describe it in detail. Now check the book to see if he is telling you the truth. If he is, you have just verified our fundamental evidence for detailed conscious knowledge of the world. Now simply wait for him...

Based on RIPE NCC traceroute measurement data, we attempt to model the Internet graph with the graph G1, which is the union of the most frequently occurring paths in the RIPE traceroute database. After analyzing the topological properties of this graph, a striking agreement with the properties of the uniform recursive tree has been found. This similarity allows us to compute the efficiency of m...

This paper introduces a system that automatically classifies registration problems based on the type of registration required. Rather than rely on a single “best” algorithm, the proposed system is made up of a suite of image registration techniques. Image pairs are analyzed according to the types of variation that occur between them, and appropriate algorithms are selected to solve for the alig...

The role of need for cognitive closure (NCC, Kruglanski, 1989, 2004) plays in the transmission of a group norm is studied applying the Jacobs and Campbell's (1961) experimental generation paradigm. It is hypothesized that the permanence tendency, linked to an high Need of Cognitive Closure produces a greater resistance to change of experimentally induced group norms. Two studies were conducted ...

35 Previously, we introduced a monkey model for human frontal midline 36 theta oscillations, as a possible neural correlate of attention. It was based on 37 homologous theta oscillations found in the monkey's prefrontal and anterior 38 cingulate cortices (areas 9 and 32) in a self-initiated hand-movement task. 39 However, it has not been confirmed whether theta activity in the monkey 40 model c...