A novel model of role of conditioning in attention is presented and evaluated on a Nao humanoid robot. The model implements conditioning and habituation in interaction with a dynamic neural field where different stimuli compete for activation. The model can be seen as a demonstration of how stimulus-selection and action-selection can be combined and illustrates how positive or negative reinforceme

This thesis concerns involuntary treatment of alcoholism. Clients committed according to the Swedish Act on Care of Addicts in Certain Cases were treated in the same residential treatment setting as voluntarily admitted clients. After informed consent, 104 clients (73 men and 21 women of whom 56 were compulsorily committed and 47 voluntarily admitted) participated in a test-series, including asses

Most implementations of single character recognition use standard arclength parameterization of the handwritten samples. A problem with the arclength approach is that points on curves of different samples from one character class may then actually correspond to parts of different structural significance. Many methods such as DTW and HMM have been successful partly because they are less sensitive t

Synchrotron radiation is a tool widely used in science. It is produced by electron accelerators called storage rings. With the high performance of the 3rd generation synchrotron light sources, the scientific results are excellent. It is important to identify and overcome the limitations of a storage ring in order to enhance its performance. This will enable research facilities to withstand competi

This book has three parts: (1) Aspects of Jesus' life from the perspective of social anthropology: family, honour and shame, conversations as honour struggles, deciphering meals. (2) What Jesus thought of himself in relation to John the Baptist, God the Father, his coming Kingdom, the temple, the authorities; why he was executed; his resurrection a historical fact? (3) Analysis of two centuries an

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Plant breeding is largely depending on the repeated selection for desirable traits. This process is both time and labour consuming, making the development of commercial plant varieties a slow and costly activity. By the use of molecular markers, analysis of the genetic constitution of plants can be performed at an early stage, providing a possibility to decrease the time and cost required for sele

This article traces the development of art cinema in Britain and particularly the role played by film director Lindsay Anderson.

An extensive high-spin level scheme has been established in 59Cu using a heavy-ion fusion evaporation reaction and the GAMMASPHERE multidetector array in conjunction with MICROBALL. Next to the spherical states at low excitation energy a large number of regular sequences of high-energy γ-ray transitions have been observed, which form rotational bands with various degree of deformation. For the yra

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Popular Abstract in Swedish Arbetet med denna avhandling har handlat om en abnormal fosfolipid (fettämne) som bildas i kroppens celler endast när alkohol är närvarande, lipiden kallas fosfatidyletanol (PEth). För att lättare kunna förstå resultaten av våra undersökningar börjar jag med en kort bakgrund. Alla kroppens celler är omgärdade av ett membran som skiljer dem från varandra och omgivningen.Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) is an abnormal phospholipid formed exclusively by the action of phospholipase D (PLD) in the presence of ethanol. The degradation of PEth is slow and due to its accumulation in some cells the possibility to use PEth as marker of ethanol intake has been proposed. It has also been suggested that PEth mediates some of the damaging effects of ethanol on cells. This study was

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A general approach to derive summation rules in electromagnetics using Herglotz functions is presented in this paper. This approach is then used to obtain summation rules and bounds on partial wave scattering, which are illustrated numerically by the scattering of a Drude sphere.