A depolarizing receptor potential produced by mechanical stimulation was studied in pawn mutants of Paramecium tetraurelia bathed in TEA solution. The potential was dependent upon the strength of the mechanical stimulation until a maximum response was reached. The maximum value was dependent on the concentration of external Ca. Discounting the change in resting potential (attributable to change...

Chinese Chess (Xiangqi) and Backgammon evolved from an ancient Chinese game called Liubo that was invented some 3,500 years ago [10, pp. 3–11]. Like Liubo, Xiangqi consists of one king, five pawns, and several higher order pieces, and the game is decided by capturing the opponent’s king. Unlike in Liubo, the moves of Xiangqi are not determined by the roll of dice. The dice part of the game even...

General Game Playing (GGP) is concerned with the development of programs that are able to play previously unknown games well. The main problem such a player is faced with is to come up with a good heuristic evaluation function automatically. Part of these heuristics are distance measures used to estimate, e.g., the distance of a pawn towards the promotion rank. However, current distance heurist...

This paper explores the issue of planning in two-person games using approximately learned knowledge which is in the form of macros. A planning technique called Knowledge Enabled Planning, which consists of generating new plans by instantiating and composing the macros and testing them against the opponent's counter-plans, is introduced using a program called LEBL that learns and plans in two-pe...

Management control system is a used to influence its members implement strategies efficiently and effectively in order achieve organizational goals. The purpose of this study was determine how the implementation management at PT Pegadaian Medan City Region. PT. Pawnshops also require company's overall This preventive repressive control. To goal requires good so that credit not problematic. appl...

Plasma Erosion Opening Switch (PEOS) experiments are described covering a conduction time range from 35 ns on Gamhle I to 2300 ns on Pawn. A microwave interferometer is used to estimate the plasma density for some of the experimental cases. The conduction current, conduction time, geometrical configuration and density are used to calculate the plasma center-of-mass displacement from JxB forces ...