We present an online adaptation rule for reservoirs that is inspired by Intrinsic Plasiticity (IP). The IP rule maximizes the information content of the reservoir state by adapting it so that the distribution approximates a given target. Here we fix the variance of the target distribution, which results in a Gaussian distribution. We apply the rule to two tasks with quite different temporal and...

Environmental and intrinsic factors that alter microbiota structure can trigger aberrant immune responses. The resulting states of dysbiosis take many forms characterized by overrepresentation of pro-inflammatory organisms and pathobionts and loss of beneficial commensals further aggravating the inflammatory state. The pathogenic potential of the dysbiotic community can be linked to specific or...

We discuss semileptonic B decays of the form B → J/Ψ eν X as possible probes for intrinsic charm. We calculate the leading order perturbative contribution to the process B− → J/Ψ e−νe and find a branching ratio of 6.8 × 10−10. We estimate the intrinsic charm contribution and find that it could be larger, although its precise value cannot be calculated. Because the kinematically allowed upper li...

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term effects of a multidisciplinary transition intervention compared to the impact of patient-related intrinsic factors on the improvement in medical and psychosocial outcome. METHODS All patients who visited our multidisciplinary Epilepsy Transition Clinic between March 2012 and September 2014 were invited to participate (n=114). Patients were sent one questionna...

A treatment of internally constrained mixtures of elastic continua at a common temperature is de­ veloped. Internal constraints involving the defonnation gradient tensors and the common mixture temperature are represented by a constraint manifold, and an internally constrained mixture ofelastic continua is associated with each unique equivalence class ofunconstrained mixtures. The example of in...

The convex hull of n independent random points chosen on the boundary of a convex body K ⊂ Rd according to a given density function is a random polytope. The expectation of its i–th intrinsic volume for i = 1, . . . , d is investigated. In the case that the boundary of K is sufficiently smooth, asymptotic expansions for these expected intrinsic volumes as n → ∞ are derived.

Recently in [17, 18], we extended the concept of intrinsic ultracontractivity to nonsymmetric semigroups and proved that for a large class of non-symmetric diffusions Z with measure-valued drift and potential, the semigroup of ZD (the process obtained by killing Z upon exiting D) in a bounded domain is intrinsic ultracontractive under very mild assumptions. In this paper, we study the intrinsic...

A common assumption in psychology, economics, and other fields holds that higher performance will result if extrinsic rewards (such as money) are offered as an incentive. While this principle seems to work well for tasks that require the execution of the same sequence of steps over and over, with little uncertainty about the process, in other cases, especially where creative problem solving is ...

The estimation of intrinsic dimensionality of high-dimensional data still remains a challenging issue. Various approaches to interpret and estimate the intrinsic dimensionality are developed. Referring to the following two classifications of estimators of the intrinsic dimensionality – local/global estimators and projection techniques/geometric approaches – we focus on the fractalbased methods ...

Ocean acidification caused by rising atmospheric CO₂ is predicted to negatively impact growth and calcification rates of coralline algae. Decreases in coralline abundance may have cascading effects on marine ecosystems and on carbon sequestration worldwide. In this study, we measured growth and calcification rates of three common species of articulated coralline algae (Bossiella plumosa, Callia...