BACKGROUND To what extent is activity of individual neurons coupled to the local field potential (LFP) and to blood-oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)? This issue is of high significance for understanding brain function and for relating animal studies to fMRI, yet it is still under debate. RESULTS Here we report data from simultaneous recordings of...

[1] The utility of subsurface temperatures as indicators of temperature changes at Earth’s surface rests upon an assumption of strong coupling between surface air temperature (SAT) and ground surface temperature (GST). Here we describe a simple representation of this coupling in terms of a variable thermal diffusivity in the upper meter of the subsurface. The variability is tied to daily SAT, p...

BACKGROUND Institutes of the history of medicine, the theory of medicine, and medical ethics at German institutions of higher learning have created various e-learning options that are based on different learning platforms and tailored to the specific curricular needs of individual teaching. Up to now no valid data has been available about the types of such e-learning options as well as possibil...

Please fill out one form for each emission reduction measure. See instructions on attachment 2. Title: Inclusion of the California Cement Industry in a multi-sector cap-and-trade program regardless of whether energy efficiency improvements and increases in the use of blended cement products occur as a result of discrete early action measures.

Abstract: We present an update of the JetViP 1.1 program for performing fixed NLO calculations in jet production including direct and resolved components in a continuous range of photon virtuality Q. The new version allows to access the full event record on the parton level. The program is set up such that hbook can be used to fill histograms. The phase space generator has been optimized and th...

Focus group interviews were conducted at a large steel manufacturing company with 1000 employees, in order to answer the research question: what is the safety culture and risk-taking like at the company, according to employees? Ten focus groups were used for data collection consisting of 6-8 employees each. The participants were operators from production. The interviews lasted 75 min and were d...

We report, for the first time, spontaneous nonlinear optical spatial fractals. The proposed generic mechanism employs intrinsic nonlinear dynamics both to generate an initial pattern seed and to fill out structure across decades of spatial scale. We demonstrate this in one of the simplest of nonlinear optical systems, composed of a Kerr slice and a single-feedback mirror. In this case, the smal...

We consider the problem of identifying the causal direction between two discrete random variables using observational data. Unlike previous work, we keep the most general functional model but make an assumption on the unobserved exogenous variable: Inspired by Occam’s razor, we assume that the exogenous variable is simple in the true causal direction. We quantify simplicity using Rényi entropy....

This research aimed at   applying SERVQUAl model to examine the relationship between mobile banking services and customer satisfaction. While the previous researchers had already examined the effect of qualities services on banking customer satisfaction, no previous study was done on mobile banking. Thus, the current paper attempted to fill the gap in the literature by applying SERVQUAL model t...