a b s t r a c tintroduction: the nucleus cuneiformis (ncf) and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlpag), two adjacent areas, mediate the central pain modulation and project to the nucleus raphe magnus (nrm). methods: this study examined whether the antinociceptive effect of morphine microinjected into the ncf is influenced by inactivation of vlpag and nrm in rats. animals were bilaterally micr...

The cuneiform (CnF) and Kolliker-Fuse (KF) nuclei are implicated in several functions including regulation of cardiovascular system and pain modulation. The KF also is a potential candidate for relaying the CnF cardiovascular responses to the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM). In a previous study we showed that blockade of the KF strongly attenuated the short responses and moderately attenua...

The work presented here is based on a paper under submission with Micha Elsner. This thesis presents a system for fusing sentences which are drawn from the same souce document but differ significantly in content. The system described here is supervised, trained from real world examples of sentences fused by professional journalists in the process of editing news articles. The system is similar ...

Biometric fusion, acquisition and combination of multiple pieces of evidence of identity, can achieve higher accuracy of biometric recognition than using a single biometric. However, fusion increases the cost or throughput of the system since it requires acquisition and processing of more samples. We document a procedure for contingent fusion. That is, two biometrics are fused only if verificat...