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Auotmatic detection, consistent mapping, and training
Results from two experiments showed that a flat displaysize function was found under the consistent mapping (CM) condition despite the facts that there was no extensive CM training and that the stimulusresponse (SR) consistency was only an intrasession manipulation. A confounding factor might be responsible for the fact that the consistent and the varied SR mapping conditions gave rise to different displaysize functions in Schneider and Shiffrin's (1977) study. Their claim that automatic detection and controlled search are qualitatively different is also discussed
Financial Risk, Innovation and Alternative Pathways to Decarbonising the Energy System in 2050
There is a lot of forward looking work attempting to envisage the decarbonised energy system of the future as reflected with current interest in 'smart grids'. A central tenet behind most visions of the 'smart grids' of the future are the price signals that financial and commodity markets will deliver to facilitate effective and efficient resource allocation. Most of these visions take stylised and static views of financial and commodity markets despite the fact that these markets are experiencing dramatic change due to innovation and regulation. Accordingly, the paper maps the risks associated in the fusion of financial innovation with innovation in the energy system through a theoretical framework that draws on evolutionary models of paradigm shift. Risks to both the financial and energy systems are characterised as either emanating from primary or secondary markets and these are explored in terms of alternative visions of the energy system in the long run
Steering in computational science: mesoscale modelling and simulation
This paper outlines the benefits of computational steering for high
performance computing applications. Lattice-Boltzmann mesoscale fluid
simulations of binary and ternary amphiphilic fluids in two and three
dimensions are used to illustrate the substantial improvements which
computational steering offers in terms of resource efficiency and time to
discover new physics. We discuss details of our current steering
implementations and describe their future outlook with the advent of
computational grids.Comment: 40 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Contemporary
Physic
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