Horseradish peroxidase was injected intracellularly into single, physiologically-identified X- and Y-cell geniculocortical axons projecting to area 17 of the cat. This injection anterogradely labeled the axon terminal fields in cortex and retrogradely labeled the somata of these same axons in laminae A and A1 of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). The laminar projections of 21 X- and 15 Y-cel...

Nature harbors crystals of dimensionality ($d$) only up to three. Here we introduce the notion \emph{projected topological branes} (PTBs): Lower-dimensional branes embedded in higher-dimensional parent crystals, constructed via a geometric cut-and-project procedure on Hilbert space lattice Hamiltonian. When such brane is inclined at rational or an irrational slope, either new periodicity quasic...

This paper presents a quantitative assessment of adaptation options in the context of forest fires in Europe under projected climate change. A standalone fire model (SFM) based on a state-of-the-art large-scale forest fire modelling algorithm is used to explore fuel removal through prescribed burnings and improved fire suppression as adaptation options. The climate change projections are provid...

The effectiveness of a system of reserves may be compromised under climate change as species’ habitat shifts to nonreserved areas, a problem that may be compounded when well-studied vertebrate species are used as conservation umbrellas for other taxa. The Northwest Forest Plan was among the first efforts to integrate conservation of wideranging focal species and localized endemics into regional...

The conservation efficiency of Protected Areas (PA) is influenced by the health and characteristics of the surrounding landscape matrix. Fragmentation of adjacent lands interrupts ecological flows within PAs and will decrease the ability of species to shift their distribution as climate changes. For five periods across the 21(st) century, we assessed changes to the extent of primary land, secon...

we establish a relationship between general constrained pseudoconvex optimization problems and globally projected dynamical systems. a corresponding novel neural network model, which is globally convergent and stable in the sense of lyapunov, is proposed. both theoretical and numerical approaches are considered. numerical simulations for three constrained nonlinear optimization problems are giv...

To identify areas on the landscape that may contribute to a robust network of conservation areas, we modeled the probabilities of occurrence of several en route migratory shorebirds and wintering waterfowl in the southern Great Plains of North America, including responses to changing climate. We predominantly used data from the eBird citizen-science project to model probabilities of occurrence ...