High doses of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) have been shown to cause long-lasting depletions of central serotonin (5-HT) which are indicative of neuronal toxicity. The noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist dizocilpine (DZ) attenuates depletions of 5-HT induced by MDMA. Because DZ has been shown to induce hypothermia in rat models of ischemia, the purpose of t...

We present TeMP—the first experimental system for testing validity of monodic temporal logic formulae. The prover implements fine-grained temporal resolution. The core operations required by the procedure are performed by an efficient resolution-based prover for classical first-order logic. 1 Monodic First-Order Temporal Logic First-Order Temporal Logic, FOTL, is an extension of classical first...

Abstract We present the application of a simplified thermal model for description response function low-temperature calorimeters consisting $$\hbox {TeO}_2$$ TeO 2 crystals read-out by NTD thermistors operated at temperatures $$T \sim 10$$ T</mm...

BACKGROUND Left atrial-esophageal fistula is a serious and poorly understood complication of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. The purpose of this study was to (1) develop a canine model of esophageal injury and left atrial-esophageal fistula after applications of forward-firing high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and side-firing unfocused ultrasound (SFU); (2) examine the relation...

As a multicellular animal’s tissues mature throughout embryogenesis, its cells must communicate with each another to determine their appropriate placement and physiological role. In some cases, this communication takes place through longrange, secreted signals; in others, through direct cell-cell contact. One example of the latter case is a process called lateral inhibition, wherein a developin...

Rate of heat transfer ∂u = (1) −K0 area ∂x where K0 is the thermal conductivity, units [K0] = MLT U . In other words, heat is transferred from areas of high temp to low temp. 3. Conservation of energy. Consider a uniform rod of length l with non-uniform temperature lying on the x-axis from x = 0 to x = l. By uniform rod, we mean the density ρ, specific heat c, thermal conductivity K0, cross-sec...

Early work on information flow security sought to develop theories for proving the absence of unwanted information leakage in high-assurance systems, like those that process classified data. Decades later, modern security-critical systems are more prevalent, face greater security threats, but are rarely formally proved to be information-flow secure, not least because doing so remains fairly exp...