Orientation-selective neurons shift their preferred orientation after being adapted to a nonpreferred orientation. These shifts of the peaks of tuning curves may be in the attractive or repulsive direction in relation to the adapter orientation. In anesthetized cats, we recorded evoked electrical responses from the visual cortex in a conventional manner. The recorded spikes in cortex may presen...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for interpolating curves (contour morphing) in time, which is a process of gradually changing a source curve (known) through intermediate curves (unknown) into a target curve (known). The novelty of our approach is in the deployment of a new regularization term and the corresponding Euler equation. Our method is applicable to implicit curve representatio...

Molecules with different magnitude and direction of dipole moments are sandwiched between mercury (Hg) and p(+)-Si to form Hg-molecules-(p(+)) Si junctions. The importance of the dipole moment of molecules in controlling the symmetry of current-voltage curves is shown by carrying out charge transport measurements at these molecular junctions. Junction parameters are obtained by considering char...

Illegal overtaking is a major contributor to traffic accidents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is the second most frequent cause of traffic accidents after speeding, and responsible for 10% of all traffic accidents in the year 2001. This paper evaluates the extent of illegal overtaking in the study area and examines the effect of time and alignment on its frequency. The study took place in t...

of the Thesis Optimizing Cache Behavior of Ray-Driven Volume Rendering Using Space-Filling Curves by Oleg Mishchenko Master of Science in Computer Science Stony Brook University 2006 We study the cache behavior of space-filling curves in the context of volume rendering with raycasting. An efficient bit-oriented algorithm for 3D Hilbert curve traversal is also proposed. We find that data organiz...

The purpose of this article is to give an overview of the construction of compact moduli spaces of curves from the viewpoint of the log minimal model program forMg (now coined as the “Hassett-Keel” program). We will provide an update on new developments and discuss further problems. We have attempted to complement recent articles by Fedorchuk and Smyth [FS10] and Morrison [Mor09], and as a resu...

One important problem in human brain mapping research is to locate the important anatomical features. Anatomical features on the cortical surface are usually represented by landmark curves, called sulci/gyri curves. These landmark curves are important information for neuroscientists to study brain disease and to match different cortical surfaces. Manual labelling of these landmark curves is tim...

‎in this work‎, ‎first the differential equation characterizing position vector‎ ‎of spacelike curve is obtained in lorentzian plane $mathbb{l}^{2}.$ then the‎ ‎special curves mentioned above are studied in lorentzian plane $mathbb{l}%‎‎^{2}.$ finally some characterizations of these special curves are given in‎ ‎$mathbb{l}^{2}.$‎

One important problem in the human brain mapping research is to locate the important anatomical features. Anatomical features on the cortical surface are usually represented by landmark curves, called sulci/gyri curves. These landmark curves are important information for neuroscientists to study brain disease and to match different cortical surfaces. Manual labelling of these landmark curves is...

In the last few years, several countries have accomplished their determined renewable energy targets to achieve future requirements with foremost aim encourage sustainable growth reduced emissions, mainly through implementation of wind and solar energy. present study, we propose compare five optimized robust regression machine learning methods, namely, random forest, gradient boosting (GBM), k-...