Paramecium cells swim by beating their cilia, and make turns by transiently reversing their power stroke. Reversal is caused by Ca2+ entering the cilium through voltage-gated Ca2+ (CaV) channels that are found exclusively in the cilia. As ciliary Ca2+ levels return to normal, the cell pivots and swims forward in a new direction. Thus, the activation of the CaV channels causes cells to make a tu...

Delay discounting-often referred to as hyperbolic discounting in the financial literature-is defined by a consistent preference for smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, and by failure of future consequences to curtail current consummatory behaviors. Previous research demonstrates (1) excessive delay discounting among individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...

The dawning of the 21st century has seen unprecedented growth in the number of wireless users, applications, and network access technologies. This trend is enabling the vision of pervasive, ubiquitous computing where users have network access anytime, anywhere, and applications are location-sensitive and contextaware. To realize this vision, we need to extend network connectivity beyond private...

Under a voltage clamp, step depolarization and repolarization can induce a sustained inward current and a tail inward current in Paramecium tetraurelia bathed in a solution containing 8 mM-Na+. These currents are best seen in the 'paranoiac' mutant. The I-V plot of the sustained inward current can have a region of negative resistance around -20 mV. This current is absent when Na+ is excluded fr...

Abstract. This study aims to determine the effect of increasing number customers and pawning gold on risk management during covid-19 pandemic. research was conducted at 15 branch offices PT. Pegadaian Syariah in city Bandung with samples obtained by 40 respondents. The method used this is a verification quantitative approach. data source primary collection technique questionnaire. sample non-pr...

We study the effect of scarcity on decision making by low income Swedes. exploit random assignment welfare payments to their borrowing decisions within pawn and mainstream credit market. document that higher educated borrowers borrow less frequently choose lower loan value ratios when budget constraints are exogenously tighter. In contrast, low-educated do not respond temporary elevated levels ...

My name is Michael Nielsen, and I work at the University of Queensland on quantum information theory, which is the subject of my talk today. It’s part of a larger subject known as quantum information science, which is being investigated by many people at the University of Queensland as part of the activities of the Center for Quantum Computer Technology. Technical work on quantum information ge...

With current increased applications of web-based management systems, the number of fatalities occasioned by human error in industrial plants has significantly reduced. Distributed control system used in industries for monitoring and control techniques offers reprieve to plant managers by offsetting the number of threats to plant operations through early detections and interventions. Even though...

Duce 1 is a Machine Learning system which suggests high-level domain features to the user (or oracle on the basis of a set of example object descriptions. Six transformation operators are used to successively compress the given examples by generalisation and feature construction. In this paper Duce is illustrated by way of its construction of a simple animal taxon-omy and a hierarchical parity ...