172 research outputs found
Visual Imagery in Deductive Reasoning: Results from experiments with sighted, blindfolded, and congenitally totally blind persons
We report three experiments on visual mental imagery in de-ductive reasoning. Reasoning performance of sighted partici-pants was impeded if the materials were easy to envisage as visual mental images. Congenitally totally blind participants did not show this visual-impedance effect. Blindfolded par-ticipants with normal vision showed the same pattern of per-formance as the sighted. We conclude that irrelevant visual detail can be a nuisance in reasoning and impedes the process
Poetry blanket : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
The poetry blanket was a blanket created by the fifth grade class at DeSoto Elementary school where I student taught. Each student created a square for the blanket about a particular poem that they studied. Each square represented a different poem. The students were also required to write a three-paragraph paper about the poet and the poem. This project includes copies of the students' papers, photographs of the students working on the project and presenting their projects to the class, and the blanket itself.Honors CollegeThesis (B.?
METABOLIC STUDIES OF CHLORPROPAMIDE IN NORMAL MEN AND IN DIABETIC SUBJECTS
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Tight-binding parameters and exchange integrals of Ba_2Cu_3O_4Cl_2
Band structure calculations for Ba_2Cu_3O_4Cl_2 within the local density
approximation (LDA) are presented. The investigated compound is similar to the
antiferromagnetic parent compounds of cuprate superconductors but contains
additional Cu_B atoms in the planes. Within the LDA, metallic behavior is found
with two bands crossing the Fermi surface (FS). These bands are built mainly
from Cu 3d_{x^2-y^2} and O 2p_{x,y} orbitals, and a corresponding tight-binding
(TB) model has been parameterized. All orbitals can be subdivided in two sets
corresponding to the A- and B-subsystems, respectively, the coupling between
which is found to be small. To describe the experimentally observed
antiferromagnetic insulating state, we propose an extended Hubbard model with
the derived TB parameters and local correlation terms characteristic for
cuprates. Using the derived parameter set we calculate the exchange integrals
for the Cu_3O_4 plane. The results are in quite reasonable agreement with the
experimental values for the isostructural compound Sr_2Cu_3O_4Cl_2.Comment: 5 pages (2 tables included), 4 ps-figure
Extending Qualitative Spatial Theories with Emergent Spatial Concepts: An Automated Reasoning Approach
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning is an exciting research field of the
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning paradigm whose application often requires
the extension, refinement or combination of existent theories (as well as
the associated calculus). This paper addresses the issue of the sound spatial interpretation
of formal extensions of such theories; particularly the interpretation
of the extension and the desired representational features. The paper shows how
to interpret certain kinds of extensions of Region Connection Calculus (RCC)
theory. We also show how to rebuild the qualitative calculus of these extensions.Junta de AndalucÃa TIC-606
A Novel RNA Editing Sensor Tool and a Specific Agonist Determine Neuronal Protein Expression of RNA-Edited Glycine Receptors and Identify a Genomic APOBEC1 Dimorphism as a New Genetic Risk Factor of Epilepsy
C-to-U RNA editing of glycine receptors (GlyR) can play an important role in disease progression of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) as it may contribute in a neuron type-specific way to neuropsychiatric symptoms of the disease. It is therefore necessary to develop tools that allow identification of neuron types that express RNA-edited GlyR protein. In this study, we identify NH4 as agonist of C-to-U RNA edited GlyRs. Furthermore, we generated a new molecular C-to-U RNA editing sensor tool that detects Apobec-1- dependent RNA editing in HEPG2 cells and rat primary hippocampal neurons. Using this sensor combined with NH4 application, we were able to identify C-to-U RNA editing-competent neurons and expression of C-to-U RNA-edited GlyR protein in neurons. Bioinformatic analysis of 1,000 Genome Project Phase 3 allele frequencies coding for human Apobec-1 80M and 80I variants showed differences between populations, and the results revealed a preference of the 80I variant to generate RNA-edited GlyR protein. Finally, we established a new PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) approach to profile mRNA expression with regard to the genetic APOBEC1 dimorphism of patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (iTLE) and found that the patients fall into two groups. Patients with expression of the Apobec-1 80I variant mostly suffered from simple or complex partial seizures, whereas patients with 80M expression exhibited secondarily generalized seizure activity. Thus, our method allows the characterization of Apobec-1 80M and 80l variants in the brain and provides a new way to epidemiologically and semiologically classify iTLE according to the two different APOBEC1 alleles. Together, these results demonstrate Apobec-1-dependent expression of RNA-edited GlyR protein in neurons and identify the APOBEC1 80I/M-coding alleles as new genetic risk factors for iTLE patients
Distinct Neurocognitive Strategies for Comprehensions of Human and Artificial Intelligence
Although humans have inevitably interacted with both human and artificial intelligence in real life situations, it is unknown whether the human brain engages homologous neurocognitive strategies to cope with both forms of intelligence. To investigate this, we scanned subjects, using functional MRI, while they inferred the reasoning processes conducted by human agents or by computers. We found that the inference of reasoning processes conducted by human agents but not by computers induced increased activity in the precuneus but decreased activity in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex and enhanced functional connectivity between the two brain areas. The findings provide evidence for distinct neurocognitive strategies of taking others' perspective and inhibiting the process referenced to the self that are specific to the comprehension of human intelligence
Cataclysmic Variables from Sloan Digital Sky Survey V -- the search for period bouncers continues
SDSS-V is carrying out a dedicated survey for white dwarfs, single and in
binaries, and we report the analysis of the spectroscopy of cataclysmic
variables (CVs) and CV candidates obtained during the final plug plate
observations of SDSS. We identify eight new CVs, spectroscopically confirm 53
and refute eleven published CV candidates, and we report 21 new or improved
orbital periods. Combined with previously published data, the orbital period
distribution of the SDSS-V CVs does not clearly exhibit a period gap. This is
consistent with previous findings that spectroscopically identified CVs have a
larger proportion of short-period systems compared to samples identified from
photometric variability. Remarkably, despite a systematic search, we find very
few period bouncers. We estimate the space density of period bouncers to be
, i.e. they represent only a few per
cent of the total CV population. This suggests that during their final phase of
evolution, CVs either destroy the donor, e.g. via a merger, or that they become
detached and cease mass transfer.Comment: Submitted to MNRA
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