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The Enlightenment as modernity: Jonathan Israel's interpretation across two decades
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Forced Labour, Workhouse-Prisons And The Early Modern State: A Case Study
Paper given at European History [E-seminars
A computer-based specification methodology
Standard practices for creating and using system specifications are inadequate for large, advanced-technology systems. A need exists to break away from paper documents in favor of documents that are stored in computers and which are read and otherwise used with the help of computers. An SADT-based system, running on the proposed Space Station data management network, could be a powerful tool for doing much of the required technical work of the Station, including creating and operating the network itself
User Generated Diversity. Some reflections on how to improve the quality of amateur productions
The potential of user created content to make a meaningful contribution to media diversity is subject to debates. Central to these debates is the argument of the quality of amateur productions. This article will take a close look at this argument, and make some suggestions on how to improve the quality and utility of amateur productions with regard to the democratic functions of media.user created content, diversity, quality, strategies
A three domain covariance framework for EEG/MEG data
In this paper we introduce a covariance framework for the analysis of EEG and
MEG data that takes into account observed temporal stationarity on small time
scales and trial-to-trial variations. We formulate a model for the covariance
matrix, which is a Kronecker product of three components that correspond to
space, time and epochs/trials, and consider maximum likelihood estimation of
the unknown parameter values. An iterative algorithm that finds approximations
of the maximum likelihood estimates is proposed. We perform a simulation study
to assess the performance of the estimator and investigate the influence of
different assumptions about the covariance factors on the estimated covariance
matrix and on its components. Apart from that, we illustrate our method on real
EEG and MEG data sets.
The proposed covariance model is applicable in a variety of cases where
spontaneous EEG or MEG acts as source of noise and realistic noise covariance
estimates are needed for accurate dipole localization, such as in evoked
activity studies, or where the properties of spontaneous EEG or MEG are
themselves the topic of interest, such as in combined EEG/fMRI experiments in
which the correlation between EEG and fMRI signals is investigated.Comment: 25 pages, 8 figures, 1 tabl
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