Neurons in macaque primary motor cortex (M1) are broadly tuned to arm movement direction. Recent evidence suggests that human M1 contains directionally tuned neurons, but it is unclear which other areas are part of the network coding movement direction and what characterizes the responses of neuronal populations in those areas. Such information would be highly relevant for the implementation of...

22 Neural responses are commonly studied in terms of “tuning curves”, characterizing changes in neuronal 23 response as a function of a continuous stimulus parameter. In the motor system, neural responses to 24 movement-direction often follow a bell-shaped tuning curve, whose exact shape determines the properties of 25 neuronal movement coding. Estimating the shape of that tuning curve robustly...

We construct unramified central simple algebras representing 2-torsion classes in the Brauer group of a hyperelliptic curve, and show that every 2-torsion class can be constructed this way when the curve has a rational Weierstrass point or when the base field is C1. In general, we show that a large (but in general proper) subgroup of the 2torsion classes are given by the construction. Examples ...

In this brief note, we prove the following two Artin-Schreier curves are supersin-gular.

recently, offshore and ocean engineering have been dealing with novel materials that play a significant role in reducing the weight of structures used in the ship construction industry. 5xxx series of aluminum alloys are of the novel alloys are suitable for construction of ship hulls and the topside structures of offshore platforms. within different 5xxx aluminum alloys, aa5083 is of great impo...

The most promising source of gravitational waves for the planned kilometer-size laser-interferometer detectors LIGO and VIRGO are merging compact binaries, i.e., neutron star/neutron star (NS/NS), neutron star/black hole (NS/BH), and black hole/black-hole (BH/BH) binaries. We investigate how accurately the distance to the source and the masses and spins of the two bodies will be measured from t...

We study the exclusive decays of B meson into P-wave charmonium states χcJ(J = 0, 1) within QCD factorization approach and find that for B → χc1K decay, the factorization breaks down due to logarithmic divergences arising from nonfactorizable spectator interactions even at twist-2 order, and the decay rate is too small to accommodate the data, and that for B → χc0K decay, there are infrared div...

We discuss the transition from quasi-circular inspiral to plunge of a system of two nonrotating black holes of masses m1 and m2 in the extreme mass ratio limit m1m2 ≪ (m1+m2). In the spirit of the Effective One Body (EOB) approach to the general relativistic dynamics of binary systems, the dynamics of the two black hole system is represented in terms of an effective particle of mass μ ≡ m1m2/(m...

It is well known that crashes on horizontal curves are a cause for concern in all countries due to the frequency and severity of crashes at curves compared to road tangents. A recent study of crashes in western Sweden reported a higher rate of crashes in right curves than left curves. To further understand this result, this paper reports the results of novel analyses of the responses of vehicle...