3 experiments using the familiarization-novelty preference procedure were conducted to investigate whether 3-month-old infants could form categorical representations of the spatial relations above and below. In Experiment 1, one group of infants familiarized with exemplars depicting a dot in different positions above a horizontal bar displayed a subsequent visual preference for a novel category...

Aims Complex ablation procedures are supported by accurate representation of an increasing variety of electrophysiological and imaging data within electroanatomic mapping systems (EMS). This study aims to develop a novel method for representing multiple complementary datasets on a single cardiac chamber model. Validation of the system and its application to both atrial and ventricular arrhythmi...

Objective. To ascertain the influence of a physician infectious diseases specialist (IDS) on antibiotic use in a medical/surgical intensive care unit. Method. Over a 5-month period, the antibiotic regimens ordered by the ICU multidisciplinary team were studied. The days of antibiotic therapy (DOT) when management decisions included an IDS were compared to DOT in the absence of an IDS. The assoc...

BACKGROUND Dissolved oxygen tension (DOT) is hardly constant and homogenously distributed in a bioreactor, which can have a negative impact in the metabolism and product synthesis. However, the effects of DOT on plasmid DNA (pDNA) production and quality have not been thoroughly investigated. In the present study, the effects of aerobic (DOT ≥30% air sat.), microaerobic (constant DOT = 3% air sa...

ABSTRACT The $P\dot{P}$ diagram is a cornerstone of pulsar research. It used in multiple ways for classifying the population, understanding evolutionary tracks, identifying issues our theoretical reach, and more. However, we have been looking at same plot more than five decades. A fresh appraisal may be healthy. Is $P \dot{P}$-diagram most useful or complete way to visualize pulsars know? Here ...

Well-known examples of dot operators are the existential, the counting, and the BP-operator. We will generalize this notion of a dot operator so that every language A will determine an operator A·. In fact, we will introduce the more general notion of promise dot operators for which the BP-operator is an example. Dot operators are a re5nement of the leaf language concept because the class deter...

The electrostatic interaction between two capacitively coupled metal double-dots is studied at low temperatures. Experiments show that when the Coulomb blockade is lifted by applying appropriate gate biases to both double-dots, the conductance through each double-dot becomes significantly lower than when only one doubledot is conducting. A master equation is derived for the system and the resul...

Nowadays, sensor development focuses on miniaturization and non-contact measurement. According to the D-dot principle, a D-dot voltage sensor with a new structure was designed based on the differential D-dot sensor with a symmetrical structure, called an asymmetric open D-dot voltage sensor. It is easier to install. The electric field distribution of the sensor was analyzed through Ansoft Maxwe...

We report an experimental demonstration of a functional cell for quantum-dot cellular automata ~QCA!, a transistorless approach to implement logic functions. The four-dot QCA cell is defined by a pair of series-connected, capacitively coupled input and output double dots. We demonstrate that, at low temperature, an electron switch in the input double dot induces an opposite electron switch in t...

The electronic properties of a modified magnetic quantum dot are studied. The modified magnetic quantum dot is a quantum structure that is formed by spatially inhomogeneous distributions of magnetic fields. Electrons are magnetically confined to the plane where the magnetic fields inside and outside the dot are different from each other. The energy spectrum exhibits quite different features dep...