What underlies the large variation in mEPSC amplitude in the auditory system? And is this variability important? In this issue of Neuron, Li et al. (2014) address the significance of large mEPSCs to auditory processing and Chapochnikov et al. (2014) describe a novel mechanism underlying them.

Activity deprivation in neurons induces a slow compensatory scaling up of synaptic strength, reflecting a homeostatic mechanism for stabilizing neuronal activity. Prior studies have focused on the loss of action potential (AP) driven neurotransmission in synaptic homeostasis. Here, we show that the miniature synaptic transmission that persists during AP blockade profoundly shapes the time cours...

This study has two objectives: (1) to identify interference of the English lexicon into Indonesian used on Youtube and (2) imple-mentation development Youtube-based interfer-ence teaching material Indonesian. research is a qualitative description which involve data in form video from Youtube. The collection techniques are using listening methods collecting record-ings, taking notes, observation...

A Workshop on Microprocessor Architecture and Systems was held on May 6-7, 1976, at Northwestern University under the sponsorship of the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture and the Technical Committee on Minis and Micros of the IEEE Computer Society. No formal theme was established, and no summary positions were presented by the attendees, but the following conclusions appeared to emer...

Whole cell currents and miniature glutamatergic synaptic events (minis) were recorded in vitro from cardiac vagal neurons in the nucleus ambiguus using the patch-clamp technique. We examined whether voltage-dependent calcium channels were involved in the nicotinic excitation of cardiac vagal neurons. Nicotine evoked an inward current, increase in mini amplitude, and increase in mini frequency i...

We consider the process e+e-+ y + h + X, where h is a hadron and y is a hard photon, and show how it can be used to test the quark-parton model, Detailed formulas are given for the cross sections, which in the quark-parton model are products of cross sections for e+e+ ypi and quark breakup functions. We focus on the asymmetry between h and h production, and display sum rules and ratio tests whi...

A s we approach the 21st century and enter the Information Age, we see the uniquely qualified electronics industry playing a vital role in realizing the new era by providing state-of-the-art technology through microelectronics, telecommunications, computer networks, and software. The advent of 32-bit microprocessors that offer the processing power of minis at a fraction of the cost opens up new...

Prior to the 1970s, the idea of introducing school students to the use of computers, or of a school owing its own computer was difficult to imagine. This situation began to change during the 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s. While microcomputers were much cheaper and more easily handled than minis and mainframes, in the late 1970s they were still quite foreign to most school teachers. This pa...

Let there be given n ordinals al, a2, • • • , an . It is well known that every ordinal can be written uniquely as the sum of indecomposable ordinals. (An ordinal is said to be indecomposable if it is not the sum of two smaller ordinals .) Denote by ¢(a) the largest of these indecomposable ordinals belonging to a . (4(a) may have a coefficient c in the decomposition of a.) Put y=minis . 0(ai), a...

Miniature synaptic events, resulting from spontaneous presynaptic release of neurotransmitter in the absence of an action potential, are often used to assay neural connectivity and are thought to play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of neuronal circuits. In this issue of Neuron, Trigo et al. identify a new class of miniature synaptic event, called "preminis," that originate fr...