Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as refer...

This paper presents the Chinese word segmentation system developed by NOKIA Research Center (NRC), which was evaluated in the Fourth International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff and the First CIPS Chinese Language Processing Evaluation organized by SIGHAN. In our system, a preprocessing module was used to discover the out-ofvocabulary words which occur repeatedly in the text, then an impro...

This paper proposes an algorithm for efficient and exhaustive template matching based on the Zero mean Normalized Cross Correlation (ZNCC) function. The algorithm consists in checking at each position a sufficient condition capable of rapidly skipping most of the expensive calculations involved in the evaluation of ZNCC scores at those points that cannot improve the best score found so far. The...

Cognitive neuroscientists are currently busy searching for the neural signatures of conscious experience. I shall argue that the notion of neural correlates of consciousness employed in much of this work is subject to two very different interpretations depending on how one understands the relation between the concepts of “state consciousness” and “creature consciousness.” Localist theories trea...

We present a novel paradigm to visualize the evolution of the service provided by one of the most popular root name servers, called K-root, operated by the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) and distributed in several locations (instances) worldwide. Our approach can be used to either monitor what happened during a prescribed time interval or observe the status of the service in near r...

In neural integrators, transient inputs are accumulated into persistent firing rates that are a neural correlate of short-term memory. Integrators often contain two opposing cell populations that increase and decrease sustained firing as a stored parameter value rises. A leading hypothesis for the mechanism of persistence is positive feedback through mutual inhibition between these opposing pop...

Native Japanese-speaking adults have difficulty perceiving the English /r/ and /l/ distinction since these exact sounds are not included in the Japanese phonetic system. To investigate the neural correlate of this phenomenon we recorded cortical magnetic responses (Magnetoencephalography, MEG) from American English (AE) and Japanese (J) speakers using /ra/ and /la/ sounds. A passive oddball par...

This study provides a response to Springer and Hauser’s claim that the Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being do not comprise six dimensions. We show that their analyses support the theoryguided six-factor model, although their interpretations of the data reveal a lack of understanding of the construct-oriented approach to personality assessment. We also review evidence from five categories of...

Self-Compacting concrete (SCC) needs no external vibration and compacts fully under its self weight. This paper describes experimental work carried out to develop SCC and to study the effect of different sizes (i.e., 20mm; 16mm; 12.5mm and 10mm) of coarse aggregate (C.A) on the properties of SCC. Eight mixes were investigated for M30 grade concrete. The water-powder ratio was kept fixed through...

Livengood, F. Lefèvre, J. Annen, J. D. Delgado, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Planetary Systems Laboraty, Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771, [email protected]), University of Maryland (Dept. of Astronomy, College Park, MD, 20742). Universities Space Research Association (Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771), Université Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS (Paris 06, Service d’Aéronomie, Paris F-7500523), C...