Connection patterns of the cerebral cortex consist of pathways linking neuronal populations across multiple levels of scale, from whole brain regions to local minicolumns. This nested interconnectivity suggests the hypothesis that cortical connections are arranged in fractal or self-similar patterns. We describe a simple procedure to generate fractal connection patterns that aim at capturing th...

tarikh-e jahangosha is the most important work about kharazmshahian and the mongols. utilising imagery, rhetoric, abundant persian and arabic poems, quranic verses and traditions, and proverbs have caused the prose to resemble poetry, fading its historical goals. here, quoting verses from the mythological parts of shahnameh, rostam and sohrab stories (37verses), and rostam and esfandiar (26 ver...

A full-scale precast prestressed concrete (PC) pile-wharf specimen with a T-headed dowel bar connection detail was tested under realistic loading and boundary conditions. The testing program introduced several seismic protocols, which were determined from nonlinear dynamic analyses of typical U.S. port structure subjected to ground motions for various hazard levels. Conventional reversed cyclic...

Skin lesion segmentation is one of the pivotal stages in diagnosis melanoma. Many methods have been proposed but, to date, this still a challenging task. Variations size and color, fuzzy boundary low contrast between normal skin are adverse factors for deficient or excessive delineation lesions, even inaccurate location detection. In paper, counter these problems, we introduce deep learning met...

Anxiety and addiction disorders are two of the most common mental disorders in the United States, and are typically chronic, disabling, and comorbid. Emerging evidence suggests the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) mediates both anxiety and addiction through connections with other brain regions, including the amygdala and nucleus accumbens. Although BNST structural connections have bee...