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% Created by Arun Jagota: 7/22/96 
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% LaTeX style file NCS.sty for NEURAL COMPUTING SURVEYS. Use to 
% format ONLY NCS papers. Save in file NCS.sty in directory in which 
% the paper will be formatted.
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% Physical page layout
\topmargin      +0.0in
\evensidemargin 0pt
\oddsidemargin  0pt
\setlength\textheight{8.5in} 
\setlength\textwidth{6.5in}

%title, authors, affiliations in NCS style
\def\maketitle{\par
 \begingroup
 \def\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
 \def\@makefnmark{\hbox 
 to 0pt{$^{\@thefnmark}$\hss}} 
 \if@twocolumn 
 \twocolumn[\@maketitle] 
 \else \newpage
 \global\@topnum\z@ \@maketitle \fi\thispagestyle{plain}\@thanks
 \endgroup
 \setcounter{footnote}{0}
 \let\maketitle\relax
 \let\@maketitle\relax
 \gdef\@thanks{}\gdef\@author{}\gdef\@title{}\let\thanks\relax}

\def\@maketitle{
%\vskip 2em 
\begin{center}
{\Large \bf \@title \par} 
\rule{0.85 \textwidth}{0.003in}
\vskip 1.5em 
{\large \lineskip .5em
\center
{\large \sf
\@author 
}
\par
} 
\end{center}
\par
\vskip 0.5em
} 

%Abstract and first-page footnote for NCS style
\renewenvironment{abstract}{\vskip 0.08in
\centerline{\bf Abstract}
\begin{quote}}{\par\end{quote}
\centerline{
\rule{0.25 \textwidth}{0.003in}
}
\vskip 0.08in
}

\newcommand{\firstpagefootnote}[4]{
\footnotetext{
#1.
Updates, corrections, and comments should be sent to #2 at #3.
 
\bigskip
\noindent
#4
}
}

\def\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}{-3.5ex plus -1ex minus 
 -.2ex}{2.3ex plus .2ex}{\center\large\sc}}

\def\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}{-3.25ex plus -1ex minus 
 -.2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}{\normalsize\bf}}

\def\subsubsection{\@startsection{subsubsection}{3}{\z@}{-3.25ex plus 
-1ex minus -.2ex}{0.1ex plus .01ex}{\small\sf}}