Pre-stimulus alpha activities predict the confidence in subjective judgment by modulating post-stimulus theta oscillation

Even when making arbitrary decisions, people tend to feel varying levels of confidence, which is associated with the pre-stimulus neural oscillation of the brain. We investigated varying confidence in a pure subjective judgment task, and how this confidence was predicted by pre-stimulus alpha oscillations. Participants made pure subjective judgments where their prior experience seems to be helpful but actually useless, and their fluctuating confidence was related to the choice boundary process rather than the evidence accumulation process, suggesting participants underwent varying confidence resulting from the internal signals. With EEG and MEG analyses, we not only revealed the linkage between confidence and pre-stimulus alpha activities, but also successfully located this linkage onto decision-making relevant brain areas, i.e. MCC/PCC and SMA. Moreover, we unveiled a specific pathway underlying such linkage, that is, the influence of pre-stimulus alpha activities on decision confidence was fulfilled through modulating post-stimulus theta activities of SMA.

The Legal Element of Fixing the Boundary for Indonesian Complete Cadastre

In 2017, the Indonesian government implemented the systematic land registration (PTSL) process, projected to be finished by 2025. However, this process faces some challenges in the spatial and legal data collection process, resulting in the Indonesian cadastral system still being incomplete. For instance, during the three years of its implementation, out of about 135 million parcels, only 49.5% have been registered. Therefore, the level of completeness needs to be improved. This research aims to assess the compliance of the fixed boundary process' legal elements, such as the parties that locate the boundary, agreement between the adjoining landowners, and boundary markers. This is a piece of qualitative research in which the data were obtained through interviews from questionnaire surveys to land administration policymakers. Subsequently, the research carried out regulation assessments to develop a country-context cadastre typology of the current cadastral mapping activities. Data were obtained from the results of the PTSL campaign in the Madiun regency. The result showed that the high percentage (i.e., 96.61%) of legal elements regarding the boundary agreement in a rural area could be used as a potential enabler towards achieving completion of the Indonesian cadastre.

A parallel algorithm for chimera grid with implicit hole cutting method

The chimera grid methods have been widely used in the simulation of flow over complex configurations and unsteady moving boundary process. Lee and Baeder presented the implicit hole cutting (IHC) method, which improves the practicability and robustness of chimera grid method. But the excessive time consumption of this method restricts the scalability of parallelism. In this article, based on the parallel implementation of IHC method with structured multi-block grid, the factors which restrict the performance and efficiency are analyzed. Cartesian auxiliary grid is introduced to reduce the communication and computing cost. Finally, test cases are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of this algorithm, and the calculation and data communication are reduced on the premise of maintaining accuracy.

Experimental study on the electrical conductivity of quartz andesite at high temperature and high pressure: evidence of grain boundary transport

In this study, the electrical conductivity of quartz andesite was measured in situ under conditions of 0.5–2.0 GPa and 723–973 K using a YJ-3000t multi-anvil press and a Solartron-1260 Impedance/Gain-Phase Analyzer. Experimental results indicate that grain interior transport controls the higher frequencies (102–106 Hz), whereas the grain boundary process dominates the lower frequencies (10−1–102 Hz). For a given pressure and temperature range, the relationship between Log σ and T−1 follows the Arrhenius relation. As temperature increased, both the grain boundary and grain interior conductivities of quartz andesite increased; however, with increasing pressure, both the grain boundary and grain interior conductivities of the sample decreased. By the virtue of the dependence of grain boundary conductivity on pressure, the activation enthalpy and the activation volume were calculated to be 0.87–0.92 eV and 0.56 ± 0.52 cm3 mol−1, respectively. The small polaron conduction mechanism for grain interior process and the ion conduction mechanism for grain boundary process are also discussed.

Experimental study on the electrical conductivity of quartz andesite at high temperature and high pressure: evidence of grain boundary transport

In this study, the grain boundary conductivity of quartz andesite was in situ measured under conditions of 0.5–2.0 GPa and 723–973 K using a YJ-3000t multi-anvil press and Solartron-1260 Impedance/Gain-phase Analyzer. Experimental results indicate that grain interior transport controls the higher frequencies (102–106 Hz), whereas the grain boundary process dominates the lower frequencies (10−1–102 Hz). At a given pressure and temperature range, the relationship between log σ and 1/T conforms to an Arrhenius relation. As temperature increased, both of the grain boundary and grain interior conductivities of quartz andesite increased. Under increasing pressure, however, both of the grain boundary and grain interior conductivities of the sample decreased. By the virtue of the dependence of grain boundary conductivity on pressure, the activation enthalpy and the activation volume were calculated at 0.77–1.03 eV and 5.29 ± 1.94 cm3 mol−1, respectively. Furthermore, the small polaron conduction mechanism between the ferrous and ferric ion is also discussed.

Carbon Footprint Assessment Methods of Wood Furniture Based on LCA

Based on life cycle assessment, develop carbon footprint assessment methods of wood furniture. By setting of wood furniture carbon footprint evaluation objectives, system boundary, process diagram mapping, data collection and basic formula, calculated the carbon footprint of wood furniture.

On Variant Reflected Backward SDEs, with Applications

We study a new type of reflected backward stochastic differential equations (RBSDEs), where the reflecting process enters the drift in a nonlinear manner. This type of the reflected BSDEs is based on a variance of the Skorohod problem studied recently by Bank and El Karoui (2004), and is hence named the “Variant Reflected BSDEs” (VRBSDE) in this paper. The special nature of the Variant Skorohod problem leads to a hidden forward-backward feature of the BSDE, and as a consequence this type of BSDE cannot be treated in a usual way. We shall prove that in a small-time duration most of the well-posedness, comparison, and stability results are still valid, although some extra conditions on the boundary process are needed. We will also provide some possible applications where the VRBSDE can be potentially useful. These applications show that the VRBSDE could become a novel tool for some problems in finance and optimal stopping problems where no existing methods can be easily applicable.