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Gravity and observer's body orientation influence the visual perception of human body postures

Olaf Blanke, Christophe Lopez, Manuel Mercier, Christelle Bachofner

Since human behavior and perception have evolved within the Earth's gravitational field, humans possess an internal model of gravity. Although gravity is known to influence the visual perception of moving objects, the evidence is less clear concerning the ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2009

On the Impossibility of Boosting Distributed Service Resilience

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We show that no deterministic algorithm can solve consensus in the presence of t+1 process crash failures, in a system of n processes that communicate in a reliable way and synchronize their activities using any number of t-resilient services. These base s ...

2005

Classical and quantum mechanics of a chaotic hamiltonian system

We examine the correspondence between a quantum system and its classical analogue. We consider the wedge billiard which shows a wide variety of behaviors ranging from integrable to strongly chaotic. Angle-action coordinates are provided for the flow and fo ...

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