Following traumatic spinal cord injury, acute demyelination of spinal axons is followed by a period of spontaneous remyelination. However, this endogenous repair response is suboptimal and may account for the persistently compromised function of surviving axons. Spontaneous remyelination is largely mediated by Schwann cells, where demyelinated central axons, particularly in the dorsal columns, ...

High speed home networks may lead high speed non-public networks (consumer communication networks) in this ten years. We find many high speed audio and visual machines in the home which should be connected each other and to personal computers by a home network. On the other hand, people’s work is rapidly changing to work including teleworking. Home is becomming a part of office which needs a hi...

Late phase long-term potentiation (L-LTP) in the hippocampus is believed to be the cellular basis of long-term memory. Protein synthesis is required for persistent forms of synaptic plasticity, including L-LTP. Neural activity is thought to enhance local protein synthesis in dendrites, and one of the mechanisms required to induce or maintain the long-lasting synaptic plasticity is protein trans...

To fabricate a soy protein emulsion with good storage stability against microorganisms, we investigated the stability and antimicrobial activity of a b-conglycinin (7S) and chitosan (CS) mixed emulsion at acidic pHs. Results of droplet size and microstructure showed that 7S/CS mixed emulsions were stable at acidic pHs while the 7S emulsion was not. As for the storage test, results showed that t...

Functional connectivity is abnormal in autism, but the nature of these abnormalities remains elusive. Different studies, mostly using functional magnetic resonance imaging, have found increased, decreased, or even mixed pattern functional connectivity abnormalities in autism, but no unifying framework has emerged to date. We measured functional connectivity in individuals with autism and in con...

In this paper, we report our experiences and findings on the design of a fault-tolerant bus architecture comprised of two COTS buses, the IEEE 1394 and the I2C. This fault-tolerant bus is the backbone system bus for the avionics architecture of the X2000 program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. COTS buses are attractive because of the availability of low cost commercial products. However, they...

IEEE 1394 is a standard for a high performance serial bus interface. It encompasses both isochronous transfer mode, which is suitable for real-time applications, and asynchronous transfer mode, which is appropriate for delay-insensitive applications. This standard can be used as a basis for constructing a small-size local area network. Two queueing models are proposed for a network operating un...

1 [Ano98s, BH15, Bre10, PFC02a, Ste02a, Ste14a]. 1-GHz [Ano98s]. 1-terabits [MIM97]. 10 [Loc03]. 10-Gigabit [Gad07, HcF04]. 100 [Kir84a, Pat84, PSW91, ZACM14]. 100-Mops [PSW91]. 1000 [ES84]. 11[Lyl04]. 11/780 [Abr83]. 115 [JBF94]. 11FO4 [ASD05]. 12 [DTB01, Dur96, SS05]. 12-DSP [Dur96]. 1284 [Dia94b]. 1284-1994 [Dia94b]. 13 [KW02]. 1394 [SB00]. 1394-1955 [Dia96d]. 14 [WD03]. 15 [FD04]. 15-Billio...