In the early 1930s, Julian Huxley, the prominent English evolutionary biologist, embarked on a visit across many British science laboratories to understand in which way the scientific knowledge they were producing was socially relevant. His account of this journey, published in 1934 (Huxley, 1934), is a compendium of applied scientific research in engineering, medicine, agriculture and so forth...

A new biologically plausible model of visual selective attention is developed based on synaptically coupled Hodgkin-Huxley neurons. The model is designed according to a two-layer architecture of excitatory and inhibitory connections which comprises two central neurons and a population of peripheral neurons. Two types of inhibition from the central neurons are present: fixed inhibition which is ...

Our understanding of the physiology of muscle depends critically on the resolution of the available anatomy. Early insight was provided by light microscopy. However, the first radical new insight was provided by electron microscopy. Ultimately, an understanding in physicochemical terms is only possible if the structures of the components in various physiological states are known at atomic resol...

Memristor (memory resistor) is a passive electrical circuit element whose instantaneous resistance depends not only on the voltage, but the history of the current applied to it. The first memristor was fabricated in 2008 by the HP labs in a semiconductor titanium-dioxide thin film. Apart from its potential for high-density memory storage, the electrical properties of a memristor share similarit...

Sir Andrew Huxley (1917-2012) pioneered the physiology and biophysics of nerve conduction, skeletal muscle activation and tension generation. His ground-breaking work on nerve excitability of nerve in collaboration with Alan Hodgkin in the Cambridge Physiological Laboratory and the Plymouth Marine Biological Laboratory provided the basis for our understanding of how voltage-gated ion channels g...

My dear Foster I sympathise this very strongly with Brady (whose letter I return herewith) and if he will go to Styria and stand over v. L with a big stick while he makes the requisite corrections – I am ready to subscribe 5/-toward the cost of the stick. Otherwise it is the old story of taking the horse to the water and being able to make him drink. Practically, I see nothing for it but to put...

Shailer Mathews (1863-1941) was the leading member of what is known as the Chicago School of Theol~gy.~ He was reared in a strict Puritan environment but when he went to college (1880-1884) he was influenced by Darwin, Huxley, and Spencer. Although some of his contemporaries were abandoning their evangelical affiliations, Mathews remained within the evangelical group; but "it led to an attitude...

In this note, we prove that for every θ ≥ 115 121 and x ≥ x0(θ), the short interval (x, x + xθ] contains at least one prime number of the form p = 1+m2 +n2 with (m,n) = 1. This improves a similar result due to Huxley and Iwaniec, which requires θ ≥ 99 100 . §