I. MATERIALS AND METHODS A. Surgical procedures B. Monitoring single-neuron activity and eye position C. Symmetry decision task II. SUPPORTING RESULTS A. Trend analysis of behavioral and neuronal responses B. Behavioral responses to symmetric and asymmetric stimuli C. Neuronal responses to symmetric and asymmetric stimuli D. Behavioral priming and neuronal suppression induced by symmetric and a...

Following training on a variable-interval food reinforcement schedule, rats were exposed to Pavlovian procedures which produced reliable conditioned suppression and conditioned acceleration of the leverpressing (instrumental) baseline. When free food was simultaneously made available in the test cage, all subjects spent the majority of each session "freeloading," that is, eating food from a dis...

The technology of non-contact heart rate detection has been proven great use. However, it is still limited by several challenges, particularly the influence human motion and random disturbances, which significantly degrade accuracy measurement. To address these this paper proposes a novel scheme for detection. Firstly, proposed utilizes Multi-Channel Averaging (MCA) technique to improve signal-...

HIV has globally infected over 37.9 million people, of which 28.2 (73%) are on antiretroviral treatment, and 66% those treatment virally suppressed. In South Africa, however, low rate viral suppression (47%) among people living with is a major health problem that continued to fuel prevalence. A cross-sectional quantitative research design was used investigate the relationship between comorbidit...

The depletion of gluons as the parton flux traverses a nucleus in a heavy-ion collision can influence the production rate of heavy-quark states. Thus the suppression of J/ψ can be due to gluon depletion in the initial state in addition to nuclear and hadronic absorption in the final state. A formalism is developed to describe the depletion effect. It is shown that, without constraints from othe...

We present a microscopic analysis of shot-noise suppression due to long-range Coulomb interaction in semiconductor devices under ballistic transport conditions. An ensemble Monte Carlo simulator selfconsistently coupled with a Poisson solver is used for the calculations. A wide range of injection-rate densities leading to different degrees of suppression is investigated. A sharp tendency of noi...

We introduce a new noise suppression method by using a search strategy with multi-model compositions that includes the following models: speech, noise, and their composites. Before noise suppression, a beam search is performed to find the best sequences of these models using noise acoustic models, noiselabel n-gram models, and a noise-label lexicon. Noise suppression is frame-synchronously perf...