Increased brain size is thought to have played an important role in the evolution of mammals and is a highly variable trait across lineages. Variations in brain size are closely linked to corresponding variations in the size of the neocortex, a distinct mammalian evolutionary innovation. The genomic features that explain and/or accompany variations in the relative size of the neocortex remain u...

Breast milk (BM) is considered as a reference for infant nutrition. The role of bioactive components, such as cytokines, hormones, growth factors (GFs) and fatty acids (FAs) is poorly known, but they might be implicated in immune response development. The aim of this study was to identify the lipid profile and the spectrum of cytokines and neuronal GF in BM samples and analyse the influence of ...

PURPOSE We investigated the efficacy of miR-29b in inhibiting scar formation in rabbits who undergo glaucoma filtering surgery (GFS). METHODS Trabeculectomy was performed on 60 rabbits diagnosed with glaucoma. The rabbits were divided into 5 groups: a blank group, single surgery group, positive control group that was treated with intraoperative mitomycin C (MMC), negative control group that w...

All the identities and integral theorems of vector calculus are contained in the calculus of differential forms. The analogy between the exterior calculus of forms and the homology theory of a cell complex yields discrete lattice models for an array of interesting physical phenomena. These models, based on arbitrary combinations of coupled scalar and polar or axial vector field quantities, can ...

In this paper we describe how we implemented journaling and recovery in the Global File System (GFS), a shared-disk, cluster file system for Linux. We also present our latest performance results for a 16-way Linux cluster.

collaborative grant ANI-0301108. The authors also acknowledge a gift from VMware corporation and a SUR grant from IBM. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF, IBM, or VMware.

The attractive research in the field of robotics as a main alternative to conventional robot in recent years is Behavior-based mobile robot. This control architecture should generate perfect behavior action and able to handle conflicting actions that are seemingly irreconcilable, those are known as Behaviour Design Problem and Action Selection Problem. This paper presents a new schema to overco...

The virtual earthquake approach to ground-motion prediction uses Green’s functions (GFs) determined from the ambient seismic field to predict long-period shaking from scenario earthquakes. The method requires accurate relative GF amplitudes between stations and among components; however, the amplitudes of ambient-field GFs are known to be subject to biases from uneven source distribution. We sh...