This paper presents DAGGER, a toolkit for finite-state automata that operate on directed acyclic graphs (dags). The work is based on a model introduced by (Kamimura and Slutzki, 1981; Kamimura and Slutzki, 1982), with a few changes to make the automata more applicable to natural language processing. Available algorithms include membership checking in bottom-up dag acceptors, transduction of dag...

Anxious states can alter attention, impairing goal-directed processing in favor of bottom-up capture. However, it is still unclear whether anxiety-related biases already influence the earliest stage of information processing, especially for unattended threat-related stimuli. Here we tested, using EEG, if the amplitude of the first component of the Visual Evoked Potentials (C1) to simple visual ...

We present a review of the main phases of stellar evolution with particular emphasis on the nucleosynthesis and mixing mechanisms in lowand intermediate-mass stars. In addition to explicit studies of the effects of the first, second and third dredge-up, we also discuss cool bottom processing and hot bottom burning.

Is the spatial selection of visual objects fully under the control of top-down factors such as current tasks sets? In his admirably clear and systematic review (Theeuwes, 2010), Jan Theeuwes claims that the selection of visual objects is determined solely by bottom-up mechanisms that are independent of observers' selection intentions, and that top-down control only comes into play at later stag...

In standard Montague Semantics we find a very close correspondence between syntactic and semantic rules (the ‘Rule-to-Rule Hypothesis’). This is attractive from a processing point of view, as we like to think of syntactic and semantic processing as being done in tandem, with information flowing in both directions, from parsing to interpretation and vice versa. The parsing procedure erects the n...

The aim of this study was to compare the production of nanocrystals of a poorly watersoluble antioxidant, quercetin, by top-down and bottom-up techniques. The top-down method used was high pressure homogenization (HPH) and bottom-up method of evaporative precipitation of nanosuspension (EPN) was used and the products from both these methods were compared. The particle size of the original drug ...