A probabilistic information retrieval method using the Maxfrom Kantor, 1994), or (b) useful for information retrieval, imum Entropy Principle (MEP) was proposed by Cooper even if it is not true. In the present article, we examine these and Huizinga (1982). Several refinements of the MEP for questions using the TREC5 (Harman, 1996, in press) biinformation retrieval have been proposed by Kantor a...

Medicinal tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) leaves contain large amounts of an essential oil, dominated by monoterpenes. Several enzymes of the chloroplastic methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway are hypothesised to act as bottlenecks to the production of monoterpenes. We investigated, whether transcript abundance of genes encoding for enzymes of the MEP pathway were correlated with foliar t...

The major excreted protein (MEP) of malignantly transformed mouse fibroblasts is the precursor to an acid proteinase with enzymic specificity similar to that of human cathepsin L. By cross-hybridization with a mouse MEP sequence, cDNA clones of the human form of MEP in an SV40 expression vector were isolated. A 1.6 kb cDNA showed 70% deduced amino acid sequence identity with mouse MEP. The dedu...

Inspiratory loading in awake humans is associated with electroencephalographic signs of supplementary motor area (SMA) activation. To provide evidence for a functional connection between SMA and the diaphragm representation in the primary motor cortex (M1(DIA)), we tested the hypothesis that modulating SMA activity using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) would alter M1(DIA) ex...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and clinical efficacy of motor evoked potential (MEP) monitoring for supratentorial tumor surgery. METHODS Between 2010 and 2012, to prevent postoperative motor deterioration, MEP recording after transcranial stimulation was performed in 84 patients with supratentorial brain tumors (45 males, 39 females; age range, 24-80 years;...

In hamsters and inbred mice, pheromone-containing chemosensory signals originating from the animal ́s own species (conspecific) and other species (heterospecific) produce differential patterns of immediate early gene (IEG = Fos/ FRAs) expression in the medial amygdala. In males of both species, conspecific stimuli, regardless of gender or putative function, activated neurons in both anterior and...

Transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials (MEP) were examined in 33 patients within three days after stroke. Normal values for MEP and motor central conduction time (CCT) were obtained in 46 healthy controls whose MEPs were evaluated during slight voluntary muscle contraction and at rest. Two months later 23 patients were re-examined clinically and electrophysiologically. Motor function c...

Is Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) a physical principle? In this paper I tentatively suggest it is not, on the basis that MEP is equivalent to Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) inference algorithm that passively translates physical assumptions into macroscopic predictions, as applied to non-equilibrium systems. MaxEnt itself has no physical content; disagreement between MaxEnt predictions and e...

BACKGROUND Temporary vessel occlusion of the parent artery is an essential technique for aneurysm surgery. Our aim was to clarify the safe time for temporary occlusion for aneurysm surgery, that is the "safe time duration" (STD), in which brain tissue exposed to ischemia will almost never fall into even the ischemic penumbra during temporary occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA), and ev...

Sanjeeb Dash IBM Research Ricardo Fukasawa Georgia Inst. Tech. Oktay G unl uk IBM Research March 6, 2008 Abstract We study the Master Equality Polyhedron (MEP) which generalizes the Master Cyclic Group Polyhedron and the Master Knapsack Polyhedron. We present an explicit characterization of the polar of the nontrivial facet-de ning inequalities for MEP. This result generalizes similar results...