35 Development of the mammalian visual system is not complete at birth but continues 36 postnatally well after eye opening. Though numerous studies have revealed changes in 37 development of the thalamus and visual cortex during this time, less is known about the 38 development of response properties of the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Here, we mapped 39 functional receptive fields of mouse R...

Products from Nature have a long and intriguing history of providing man with useful materials for his daily life. None is more important than the medium-chain fats found in mother's milk. Mention was made in Sanskrit medicine that freshly expressed human milk was routinely used as an "antibiotic" after eye surgery. Research in our laboratory discovered that the most active lipid ingredient (mo...

The academic research field of music information retrieval is expanding as rapidly as the MP3 collection of a stereotypical teenager. This could be no coincidence : the benefit of an automated genre classifier increases when the music collection contains several thousand tracks. Of course, there are other applications of music information retrieval. Here we highlight a few that make use of a si...

There is a consensus among applied linguistic scholars that the use of formulaic sequences contributes to fluent, well-formed, and appropriate language (e.g. Pawley and Syder, 1983; Nattinger and DeCarrico, 1992; Wray, 2002; Schmitt and Carter, this volume). The underlying belief is that preformulated sequences of language, which are stored in the mind as wholes, can be recognized and retrieved...

This paper presents modelling and analysis of a mobile 3DTV broadcast system for handheld devices. The underlying technology behind our system is the DVB-H specification which brings ordinary TV broadcast services to batterypowered handheld receivers. In our system, we simulated the broadcast of stereo video content over DVB-H to mobile handheld devices with autostereoscopic displays. In this w...

Auditory signals can take the form of “auditory displays” that communicate information redundant to visual displays. These redundant displays may allow offloading some visual workload to the auditory channel. The current study examines the effect of visual, auditory and redundant displays on the performance of a dual-task simulation of patient monitoring. Subjects performed manual compensatory ...

CONTEXT As the science and practice of syndromic surveillance (SyS) evolve, it has increasing utility for public health surveillance at the local level. Local health departments (LHDs) require specific organizational and workforce capabilities to use SyS data. In 2013, more than half of the LHDs reported using SyS, although little has been reported about LHD workforce capabilities in SyS. OBJ...

-Catenins are conserved regulators of metazoan development that function with TCF DNA-binding proteins to activate transcription. In Caenorhabditis elegans, SYS-1/ -catenin and POP-1/TCF regulate several asymmetric divisions, including that of the somatic gonadal precursor cell (SGP). In the distal but not the proximal SGP daughter, SYS-1/ -catenin and POP-1/TCF transcriptionally activate ceh-2...

beta-Catenins are conserved regulators of metazoan development that function with TCF DNA-binding proteins to activate transcription. In Caenorhabditis elegans, SYS-1/beta-catenin and POP-1/TCF regulate several asymmetric divisions, including that of the somatic gonadal precursor cell (SGP). In the distal but not the proximal SGP daughter, SYS-1/beta-catenin and POP-1/TCF transcriptionally acti...

The extreme anoxia-tolerance of freshwater turtles under cold conditions is well documented, but little is known about their cardiac performance in such situations. Using chronic catheterization techniques, we measured systemic cardiac power output (PO(sys)), systemic cardiac output (Q(.)(sys)), heart rate (fh), systemic stroke volume (V(s,sys)), systemic resistance (R(sys)) and mean arterial p...