For a new class of neuron models we demonstrate here that typical membrane action potentials and spike-bursts are only transient states but appear to be asymptotically stable; and yet such metastable states are plastic — being able to dynamically change from one action potential to another with different pulse frequencies and from one spike-burst to another with different spike-per-burst number...

in order to evaluate arbuscular mycorrhiza (glomuss mossea) and mycorrhiza-like (piriformospora indica) effects on yield, yield components and some morphological (cv. azar 2) traits of wheat (triticum aestivum l.) under water deficit stress, a pot experiment was conducted as factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with four replications. treatments were drought stress at thre...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of drought stress on 22 durum wheat genotypes. different characteristics such as grain weight per spike, plant biomass, 100 grain weight, free proline content in leaves, and percentage of cell membrane damage were studied in greenhouse and laboratory conditions. genotypes were sown under normal irrigation and moisture stress conditions. in stress ...

BACKGROUND Levetiracetam (LEV) is a new antiepileptic drug with efficacy in partial-onset seizures. We report a case in which generalized-onset absence seizures responded clinically and electrographically to LEV. METHODS We evaluated with continuous video/electroencephalography an adult with generalized-onset seizures given 3 antiepileptic drugs, 1 of which was LEV. Levetiracetam initiation 2...

According to the 'redundancy reduction' hypothesis, a visual neuron removes correlations from an image to reduce redundancy in the spike train, thus increasing the efficiency of information coding. However, all elaborations of this general hypothesis have treated spatial and temporal correlations separately. To investigate how a retinal ganglion cell responds to combined spatial and temporal co...

The interactive effects of elevated [CO2] and drought on leaf photosynthesis, physiology yield in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are not well understood. This study evaluated the persistent stress (35–45% field water capacity) CO2 (ambient concentration + 200 ?mol mol–1) chlorophyll fluorescence, physiological indices, biomass, grain weight (in g m?2) two cultivars (large-spike cultivar Z175 mult...