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Suggestions For A Parametric Typology Of Dance
Dance and language are produced/performed by the body and governed by cognitive faculties. Yet regrettably little scholarship applies tools of formal analysis in one field to the other. This paper aims to enrich dialogue between the two fields. We introduce an approach to dance typology formed on analogy with the parametric theory of language analysis, useful in typologizing languages. This initial exploration paves the way for a physiological typology of dance, without reference to culture
Strategies for distributing goals in a team of cooperative agents
This paper addresses the problem of distributing goals to individual agents inside a team of cooperative agents. It shows that several parameters determine the goals of particular agents. The first parameter is the set of goals allocated to the team; the second parameter is the description of the real actual world; the third parameter is the description of the agents' ability and commitments. The last parameter is the strategy the team agrees on: for each precise goal, the team may define several strategies which are orders between agents representing, for instance, their relative competence or their relative cost. This paper also shows how to combine strategies. The method used here assumes an order of priority between strategie
New advances in amblyopia therapy I: Binocular therapies and pharmacologic augmentation
Amblyopia therapy options have traditionally been limited to penalisation of the non-amblyopic eye with either patching or pharmaceutical penalisation. Solid evidence, mostly from the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group, has validated both number of hours a day of patching and days per week of atropine use. The use of glasses alone has also been established as a good first-line therapy for both anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia. Unfortunately, visual acuity equalisation or even improvement is not always attainable with these methods. Additionally, non-compliance with prescribed therapies contributes to treatment failures, with data supporting difficulty adhering to full treatment sessions. Interest in alternative therapies for amblyopia treatment has long been a topic of interest among researchers and clinicians alike. Incorporating new technology with an understanding of the biological basis of amblyopia has led to enthusiasm for binocular treatment of amblyopia. Early work on perceptual learning as well as more recent enthusiasm for iPad-based dichoptic training have each generated interesting and promising data for vision improvement in amblyopes. Use of pharmaceutical augmentation of traditional therapies has also been investigated. Several different drugs with unique mechanisms of action are thought to be able to neurosensitise the brain and enhance responsiveness to amblyopia therapy. No new treatment has emerged from currently available evidence as superior to the traditional therapies in common practice today. But ongoing investigation into the use of both new technology and the understanding of the neural basis of amblyopia promises alternate or perhaps better cures in the future.</jats:p
Efficient least-squares basket-weaving
We report on a novel method to solve the basket-weaving problem.
Basket-weaving is a technique that is used to remove scan-line patterns from
single-dish radio maps. The new approach applies linear least-squares and works
on gridded maps from arbitrarily sampled data, which greatly improves
computational efficiency and robustness. It also allows masking of bad data,
which is useful for cases where radio frequency interference is present in the
data. We evaluate the algorithms using simulations and real data obtained with
the Effelsberg 100-m telescope.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted by A&
The Stellar Populations of Praesepe and Coma Berenices
We present the results of a stellar membership survey of the nearby open
clusters Praesepe and Coma Berenices. We have combined archival survey data
from the SDSS, 2MASS, USNOB1.0, and UCAC-2.0 surveys to compile proper motions
and photometry for ~5 million sources over 300 deg^2. Of these sources, 1010
stars in Praesepe and 98 stars in Coma Ber are identified as candidate members
with probability >80%; 442 and 61 are identified as high-probability candidates
for the first time. We estimate that this survey is >90% complete across a wide
range of spectral types (F0 to M5 in Praesepe, F5 to M6 in Coma Ber). We have
also investigated the stellar mass dependence of each cluster's mass and radius
in order to quantify the role of mass segregation and tidal stripping in
shaping the present-day mass function and spatial distribution of stars.
Praesepe shows clear evidence of mass segregation across the full stellar mass
range; Coma Ber does not show any clear trend, but low number statistics would
mask a trend of the same magnitude as in Praesepe. The mass function for
Praesepe (t~600 Myr; M~500 Msun) follows a power law consistent with that of
the field present-day mass function, suggesting that any mass-dependent tidal
stripping could have removed only the lowest-mass members (<0.15 Msun). Coma
Ber, which is younger but much less massive (t~400 Myr; M~100 Msun), follows a
significantly shallower power law. This suggests that some tidal stripping has
occurred, but the low-mass stellar population has not been strongly depleted
down to the survey completeness limit (~0.12 Msun).Comment: Accepted to AJ; 14 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables + 2 online-only table
Derivation of the Lindblad Generator Structure by use of the It\^o Stochastic Calculus
We use the It\^o stochastic calculus to give a simple derivation of the
Lindblad form for the generator of a completely positive density matrix
evolution, by specialization from the corresponding global form for a
completely positive map. As a by-product, we obtain a generalized generator for
a completely positive stochastic density matrix evolution.Comment: Plain TEX, no figures or table
Gravity Dual of a Quantum Hall Plateau Transition
We show how to model the transition between distinct quantum Hall plateaus in
terms of D-branes in string theory. A low energy theory of 2+1 dimensional
fermions is obtained by considering the D3-D7 system, and the plateau
transition corresponds to moving the branes through one another. We study the
transition at strong coupling using gauge/gravity duality and the probe
approximation. Strong coupling leads to a novel kind of plateau transition: at
low temperatures the transition remains discontinuous due to the effects of
dynamical symmetry breaking and mass generation, and at high temperatures is
only partially smoothed out.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures, harvmac; v2, references and minor comments
added, version to be submitted to JHEP; v3, corrections to section
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