During a force-matched bilateral task, when pain is induced in one limb, a shift of load to the non-painful leg is classically observed. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that this adaptation to pain depends on the mechanical efficiency of the non-painful leg. We studied a bilateral plantarflexion task that allowed flexibility in the relative force produced with each leg, but constrained ...

When spiking activity within a network is perturbed for hours to days, compensatory changes in synaptic strength are triggered that are thought to be important for the homeostatic maintenance of network or cellular spiking activity. In one form of this homeostatic plasticity, called synaptic scaling, all of a cell's AMPAergic miniature postsynaptic currents (mEPSCs) are increased or decreased b...

S. Cowell Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA (Dated: December 6, 2005) The modern theory of neutrinoless double beta decay includes a scaling factor that has often been treated inconsistently in the literature. The nuclear contribution to the decay half life can be suppressed by 15-20% when scaling factors are mismatched. Correspondingly, 〈m...

In this work-in-progress, we consider a lifted inference algorithm and analyze its scaling properties. We compare two versions of this algorithm – the original implementation and a newer implementation built on a database. Our preliminary results show that constructing the factor graph from the relational model rather than the construction of the compressed model is the key bottleneck for the a...

Measurement of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity, Ks, is normally affected by flow patterns such as macro pore; however, most current techniques do  not differentiate flow types, causing major problems in describing water and chemical flows within the soil matrix. This study compares eight models for scaling Ks and predicted matrix and macro pore Ks, using a database composed of 50 datasets...