Previous studies of infant cry acoustics and their perceptual significance have remained inconclusive as to the graded nature of cry production and perception and to the exact role and importance of particular acoustic features. In this study, a set of infant cries were digitally analyzed and resynthesized to form natural-sounding cries with varying fundamental frequency (F0), degrees of jitter...

Possibilistic logic and quasi-classical logic are two logics that were developed in artificial intelligence for coping with inconsistency in different ways, yet preserving the main features of classical logic. This paper presents a new logic, called quasi-possibilistic logic, that encompasses possibilistic logic and quasi-classical logic, and preserves the merits of both logics. Indeed, it can ...

Visual completion is a ubiquitous phenomenon: Human vision often constructs contours and surfaces in regions that have no sharp gradients in any image property. When does human vision interpolate a contour between a given pair of luminance-defined edges? Two different answers have been proposed: relatability and minimizing inflections. We state and prove a proposition that links these two propo...

We present here an efficient but detailed approach to modelling Ca(2+)-induced Ca(2+) release in the diadic cleft of cardiac ventricular myocytes. In this Framework we developed a spatial resolved Ca(2+) release unit (CaRU), consisting of the junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum and the diadic cleft, with a well defined channel placement. By taking advantage of time scale separation, the model cou...

We define ruling invariants for even-valence Legendrian graphs in standard contact three-space. prove that rulings exist if and only the DGA of graph, introduced by first two authors, has an augmentation. set up usual polynomials various notions gradedness graph is four-valent, then ungraded polynomial appears Kauffman-Vogel's version Kauffman polynomial. Our are compatible with certain vertex-...

Recently, a number of researchers have proposed the use of experimental methods to elicit acceptability judgments, thus addressing the shortcomings of the conventional intuitive way of gathering linguistic data (cf. Bard et al. 1996; Cowart 1997; Schütze 1996). The use of experimental methods allows to handle interand intraspeaker variation and to control for known biases on judgment behavior (...

Current techniques for generating a knowledge space, such as QUERY, guarantees that the resulting structure is closed under union, but not that it satisfies wellgradedness, which is one of the defining conditions for a learning space. We give necessary and sufficient conditions on the base of a union-closed set family that ensures that the family is well-graded. We consider two cases, depending...

The present work is a plea for a cognitive-based view of lexical meaning. Traditional, usually taxonomically based descriptions such as trees or feature bundles are rather reductive and abstract and often cannot thoroughly represent reality. They lack a psychological foundation. This has been criticized repeatedly as a serious flaw in recent years. This article investigates how the meaning of w...