Receptive field identification is a vital problem in sensory neurophysiology and vision. Much research has been done in identifying the receptive fields of nonlinear neurons whose firing rate is determined by the nonlinear interactions of a small number of linear filters. Despite more advanced methods that have been proposed, spike-triggered covariance (STC) continues to be the most widely used...

in order to determine the appropriate plant density in different planting dates for sweet corn cultivar ksc403su, an experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design in split plot lay out with three replications at seed and plant improvement institute in karaj in 2006. three planting dates (22 may, 5 june and 22 june) were assigned as main plots and three plant densities (65000...

We study the reconstruction of visual stimuli from spike trains, representing the reconstructed stimulus by a Volterra series up to second order. We illustrate this procedure in a prominent example of spiking neurons, recording simultaneously from the two H1 neurons located in the lobula plate of the fly Chrysomya megacephala. The fly views two types of stimuli, corresponding to rotational and ...

To gain a better understanding of how neural ensembles communicate and process information, neural decoding algorithms are used to extract information encoded in their spiking activity. Bayesian decoding is one of the most used neural population decoding approaches to extract information from the ensemble spiking activity of rat hippocampal neurons. Recently it has been shown how Bayesian decod...

To explore the response of summer maize leaf senescence, photosynthetic characteristics, and yield to depth one-time base application controlled-release urea, which provides a theoretical basis for light simplified production maize. Seven treatments were set up with Zhengdan 958 as material under field conditions, including no nitrogen fertilizer (CK), surface spreading (DP0), furrow 5 cm (DP5)...

Electrical properties of the muscle fiber membrane were studied in the barnacle, Balanus nubilus Darw. by using intracellular electrode techniques. A depolarization of the membrane does not usually produce an all-ornone spike potential in the normal muscle fiber even though a mechanical response is elicited. The intracellular injection of Ca++-binding agents (K 2SO4 and K salt of EDTA solution,...

Recent experimental work has suggested that the neural firing rate can be interpreted as a fractional derivative, at least when signal variation induces neural adaptation. Here, we show that the actual neural spike-train itself can be considered as the fractional derivative, provided that the neural signal is approximated by a sum of power-law kernels. A simple standard thresholding spiking neu...

in order to compare morphophysiological traits between new and old cultivars of barley (hordeum vulgare l.) a greenhouse experiment was conducted in greenhouse condition in faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad in spring and summer 2011.the type of experiment was a completely randomized design with eight treatments (nosrat , youssof , fagr30 , nick) and four old cultivars inclu...

in order to study genetic variation and relationship between traits, 615 accessions of local bread wheat from wheat collection of national plant gene bank of iran were evaluated. seeds of the accessions were planted in 2.5 meter long rows in an observatory design and 17 agro-morphological traits were measured. grain yield of 5 spikes, number of tillers and number of seeds per spike were of high...