The delay discounting paradigm was used to examine its utility in understanding motivational factors among socially anxious individuals. Participants (n=88) who reported high and low levels of social anxiety were randomly assigned to either a social threat or non-threat condition and their subsequent rates of discounting were examined. A significant difference in rates of discounting was found ...

This report describes the challenges in meeting the requirements for optical buffering devices in next -generation optical routers. Slow light and delay line buffering approaches are described and several recent results and issues are summarized.

In this paper, we investigate extensively the joint network dynamics with different AIMD window-adjustment parameters on end-hosts, and different queue management schemes (i.e. DropTail vs. RED) in routers. We reveal that with DropTail buffer, although smooth TCPs causes less queuing-delay jitter, its average queuing delay is significantly higher than that of responsive TCPs. The direct implica...

Delaying gratification involves 2 components: (1) delay choice (selecting a delayed reward over an immediate one) and (2) delay maintenance (sustaining the decision to delay gratification even if the immediate reward is available during the delay). Two tasks most commonly have explored these components in primates: the intertemporal choice task and the accumulation task. It is unclear whether t...

Gravitational physics of VLBI experiment conducted on September 8, 2002 and dedicated to measure the speed of gravity is treated in the first post-Newtonian approximation. Explicit speed-of-gravity parameterization is introduced to the Einstein equations to single out the retardation effect associated with the finite speed of gravity in the relativistic time delay of light propagating in the gr...

We consider a constrained Steiner tree problem in which it is necessary to provide bounded delays between the source and all destinations, as well as bounded variation among these delays. The delay and delay variation bounds are directly related to the quality of service requirements of real-time interactive applications that will use the tree for multicast communication. The main contribution ...

This paper proposes a Time Delay nonlinear dynamic model of HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1), introducing the drug consumption efficiencies as the controlling input for the model. The paper also represents the fuzzy T-S representation and the corresponding Fuzzy T-S controller. The controller parameters are tuned using LMIs (Linear Matrix Inequalities). The main focus is on the stabi...

In the last two decades, an increasing interest has been observed in the development of effective bilateral teleoperation systems. One of the biggest challenges encountered however is the presence of time delay, which can cause instability and poor transparency to the system. Researchers have been trying to tackle this problem from different angles and various control schemes have been proposed...