We investigate adaptation under a reaching task with an acceleration-based force field perturbation designed to alter the nominal straight hand trajectory in a potentially benign manner: pushing the hand off course in one direction before subsequently restoring towards the target. In this particular task, an explicit strategy to reduce motor effort requires a distinct deviation from the nominal...

President Obama has proposed an overall budget increase of $825 million for the NIH in fiscal year 2017 compared with 2016. That money would be reserved for three efforts: the NCI's "moonshot" initiative, the Precision Medicine Initiative cohort program, and the BRAIN program.

In this paper we find bounds on the modulii of second, third and fourth Taylor-Maclaurin’s coefficients for functions in a subclass bi-close-to-convex analytic functions, which includes class studied by Srivastava et al. as particular case. Our estimates second improve upon earlier bounds. The result coefficient is new. are obtained refining well known initial Carthéodory functions.

This chapter presents ViSta-PrnCmp, the module for Principal Components Analysis (PCA) in ViSta. This procedure is capable of analyzing numerical variables so they can be represented on a lower dimensionality space. The visualization for ViSta-PrnCmp includes a scatterplot-matrix of component scores; a bi-dimensional biplot; a tri-dimensional (spin-plot) version of the biplot; a box-diamond-dot...

We present a method for calculating exciton and bi-exciton energies in type-II colloidal quantum dots. Our methodology is based on an 8-band k · p Hamiltonian of the zincblend structure, which incorporates the effects of spin-orbit interaction, strain between the core and the shell and piezoelectric potentials. Exciton states are found using the configuration interaction (CI) method that explic...