Experience-dependent plasticity is a fundamental property of the brain. It is critical for everyday function, is impaired in a range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and frequently depends on long-term potentiation (LTP). Preclinical studies suggest that augmenting N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) signaling may promote experience-dependent plasticity; however, a lack of noninvasi...

Airline pilots and similar professions require reliable spatial cognition abilities, such as mental imagery of static and moving three-dimensional objects in space. A well-known task to investigate these skills is the Shepard and Metzler mental rotation task (SMT), which is also frequently used during pre-assessment of pilot candidates. Despite the intuitive relationship between real-life spati...

Recent developments, including the analysis of firm-level adjustment to falling trade costs, have contributed to a revival of interest in intra-industry trade (IIT). Most empirical work still relies on the standard Grubel-Lloyd measure. This however refers only to international trade, disregarding income flows stimulated by repatriated profits of multinational firms. Given the overwhelming impo...

INTRODUCTION Intensive insulin treatment (IIT) has been shown to improve outcomes post-burn in severely burnt patients. However, it increases the incidence of hypoglycemia and is associated with risks and complications. We hypothesized that exenatide would decrease plasma glucose levels post-burn to levels similar to those achieved with IIT, and reduce the amount of exogenous insulin administer...

INTRODUCTION There is no information on the uptake of Intensive Insulin Therapy (IIT) before the Normoglycemia in Intensive Care Evaluation and Surviving Using Glucose Algorithm Regulation (NICE-SUGAR) trial in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and on the bi-national response to the trial, yet such data would provide important information on the evolution of ANZ practice in this field. We aimed t...

Hyperglycemia (HG), a common phenomenon in all types of acute strokes, is increasingly considered as a potential therapeutic target in ischemic stroke because there is now strong evidence that high glucose levels are independent predictors of larger infarct size, poor clinical outcome, and higher risk of mortality.1 In the past few years this has led many acute stroke centers to initiate intens...

The city of Mumbai charms every visitor. In particular, its warmth and ethos have remained unchanged over the years. crowds in suburban trains average person on street continue to exude this warmth, cutting across social boundaries. Tucked away northeast corner sprawling metropolis is a still sylvan paradise, where birds chirp, cows moo, monkeys chatter, leopard pays periodic visits. And paradi...

Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) is a data-driven and fully adaptive signal decomposition technique to decompose into its Intrinsic Functions (IMF). EMD has attained great attention due capabilities process in the frequency-time domain without altering frequency domain. EMD-based denoising techniques have shown potential denoise nonlinear nonstationary signals compromising signal’s characteri...

This thesis evaluates the integrated information theory (IIT) by looking at how it may answer some central problems of consciousness that the author thinks any theory of consciousness should be able to explain. The problems concerned are the mind-body problem, the hard problem, the explanatory gap, the binding problem, and the problem of objectively detecting consciousness. The IIT is a computa...

Hyperglycemia (HG), a common phenomenon in all types of acute strokes, is increasingly considered as a potential therapeutic target in ischemic stroke because there is now strong evidence that high glucose levels are independent predictors of larger infarct size, poor clinical outcome, and higher risk of mortality.1 In the past few years this has led many acute stroke centers to initiate intens...