Signal propagation along the structural connectome of the brain induces changes in the patterns of activity. These activity patterns define global brain states and contain information in accordance with their expected...
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Signal propagation along the structural connectome of the brain induces changes in the patterns of activity. These activity patterns define global brain states and contain information in accordance with their expected probability of occurrence. Being the physical substrate upon which information propagates, the structural connectome, in conjunction with the dynamics, determines the set of possible brain states and constrains the transition between accessible states. Yet, precisely how these structural constraints on state-transitions relate to their information content remains unexplored. To address this gap in knowledge, we defined the information content as a function of the activation distribution, where statistically rare values of activation correspond to high information content. With this numerical definition in hand, we studied the spatiotemporal distribution of information content in fMRI data from the Human Connectome Project during different tasks, and report four key findings. First, information content strongly depends on cognitive context;its absolute level and spatial distribution depend on the cognitive task. Second, while information content shows similarities to other measures of brain activity, it is distinct from both Neurosynth maps and task contrast maps generated by a general linear model applied to the fMRI data. Third, the brain’s structural wiring constrains the cost to control its state, where the cost to transition into high information content states is larger than that to transition into low information content states. Finally, all state transitions—especially those to high information content states—are less costly than expected from random network null models, thereby indicating the brain’s marked efficiency. Taken together, our findings establish an explanatory link between the information contained in a brain state and the energetic cost of attaining that state, thereby laying important groundwork for our understanding of large-scal
In light of our aging population, there is an immediate need for non-obtrusive, continuous, and ubiquitous health monitoring technologies that will enable our population to age with a higher quality of life and indepe...
In light of our aging population, there is an immediate need for non-obtrusive, continuous, and ubiquitous health monitoring technologies that will enable our population to age with a higher quality of life and independence. Research has demonstrated that gait indicators, such as walking speed, can reflect cognitive and physical functioning. However, gradual changes in such indicators usually go undetected until critical problems arise; being able to detect changes in indicators, such as gait deterioration, of older adults while in their home environments would enable clinicians to tailor more effective and personalized interventions by better understanding user behaviour in real-world settings. Real-world data is essential to enabling our healthcare system to act where patients most need help and to optimize the effect of designed eHealth solutions.
Quantum Conference Key Agreement (CKA) is a cryptographic effort of multiple parties to establish a shared secret key. While bipartite quantum key distribution protocols are also useful in the context of CKA, multipar...
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We live in an era of information and it is very important to handle the exchange of information. While sending data to an authorized source, we need to protect it from unauthorized sources, changes, and authentication...
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Many online social networking platforms are leveraging crowdsourcing to enhance the user experience. These platforms seek to incentivize heterogeneous workers to exert efforts to complete tasks (e.g., evaluation of po...
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(数字)9781728109626
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(纸本)9781728109633
Many online social networking platforms are leveraging crowdsourcing to enhance the user experience. These platforms seek to incentivize heterogeneous workers to exert efforts to complete tasks (e.g., evaluation of posts and articles) and truthfully report their solutions. An output agreement mechanism (e.g., majority voting) is a common approach to this end. In an output agreement mechanism, a worker is rewarded according to whether his solution matches those of his peers. However, prior related work has not considered workers with heterogeneous solution accuracy and how this heterogeneity affects a platform's payoff. We fill this void by modeling and analyzing the interactions between a platform and workers as a two-stage Stackelberg game. In Stage I, the platform chooses the reward level for the majority voting to maximize its payoff. In Stage II, the workers decide their effort levels and reporting strategies to maximize their payoffs. We show that as a worker's solution accuracy increases, he is more likely to exert effort and truthfully report his solution at the equilibrium. However, given a fixed worker population, it is surprising that the platform's payoff does not monotonically increase in the number of high-accuracy workers. This is because a larger number of high-accuracy workers brings marginally decreasing benefit to the platform, but the rewards required to incentivize them may significantly grow. Moreover, we show that as the solutions of the high-accuracy workers become more accurate, the platform needs a smaller number of such workers to achieve the maximum payoff.
Personal health records (PHRs) are valuable assets to individuals because they enable them to integrate and manage their medical data. A PHR is an electronic application through which patients can manage their health ...
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In this paper we consider solving saddle point problems using two variants of Gradient Descent- Ascent algorithms, Extra-gradient (EG) and Optimistic Gradient Descent Ascent (OGDA) methods. We show that both of these ...
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Typical robot force control architectures have a positive force feedback loop to decouple robot dynamics from contact dynamics. Due to the noisy profile of force measurements, it is common to filter force signals by l...
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Typical robot force control architectures have a positive force feedback loop to decouple robot dynamics from contact dynamics. Due to the noisy profile of force measurements, it is common to filter force signals by low pass filters. This paper shows that, when force feedback is filtered, robot and environment dynamics are no longer decoupled, affecting force control performance. Additionally, the perceived stiffness from the force control perspective, is correlated with the robot effective mass. To cope with this issue, a force based stiffness estimation strategy that also includes the inertial properties (effective mass) in the estimation algorithm is proposed, allowing to adapt control gains based on the robot effective mass. In this way, the perceived stiffness can be seen as a control optimization parameter, rather than a well defined physical property. Simulation and experimental results with a 1-DoF robot and 7-DoF manipulator, respectively, validate the estimation strategy, showing better force control results with the perceived stiffness in the control loop, as compared to the real environment stiffness.
In this paper, we propose a drone-based wildfire monitoring system for remote and hard-to-reach areas. This system utilizes autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the main advantage of providing on-demand mon...
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In this paper, we propose a drone-based wildfire monitoring system for remote and hard-to-reach areas. This system utilizes autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the main advantage of providing on-demand monitoring service faster than the current approaches of using satellite images, manned aircraft and remotely controlled drones. Furthermore, using autonomous drones facilitates minimizing human intervention in risky wildfire zones. In particular, to develop a fully autonomous system, we propose a distributed leader-follower coalition formation model to cluster a set of drones into multiple coalitions that collectively cover the designated monitoring field. The coalition leader is a drone that employs observer drones potentially with different sensing and imaging capabilities to hover in circular paths and collect imagery information from the impacted areas. The objectives of the proposed system include: i) to cover the entire fire zone with a minimum number of drones, and ii) to minimize the energy consumption and latency of the available drones to fly to the fire zone. Simulation results confirm that the performance of the proposed system- without the need for inter-coalition communications- approaches that of a centrally-optimized system.
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