Some authors (Muller and Saunders 2008, Huggett and Norton, 2013) have attempted to defend Leibniz’s identity of indicernibes through weak discernibility. The idea is that if there is a symmetric, non-reflexive physical relation which holds between two particles, then those particles cannot be identical. In this paper I focus only on Muller and Saunders’ account and argue that the means by whic...

Recently, Bhaintwal and Wasan studied the Generalized Reed-Muller codes over the prime power integer residue ring. In this paper, we give a generalization of these codes to Generalized Reed-Muller codes over Galois rings.

BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to determine the level of recruitment of the muscles used in the generation of respiratory muscle force, and to ascertain whether maximal diaphragmatic force and maximal inspiratory muscle force need to be measured by separate tests. The level of activity of three inspiratory muscles and one expiratory muscle during three maximal respiratory manoeuvres was stud...

We show how to transform a Muller game with n vertices into a safety game with (n!) vertices whose solution allows to determine the winning regions of the Muller game and a winning strategy for one player.

PURPOSE To investigate the protective roles played by heme oxygenase (HO)-1 and -2 in the rat retina after ischemia-reperfusion injury. METHODS Retinal ischemia was induced in rats by increasing the intraocular pressure to 110 mmHg for 60 minutes. The expression of HO-1 and -2 in the retina was determined by Western blot, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and immunohistochemistry. To...

On April 29, 2015, the neuroscience community lost an accomplished and beloved scientist when Dominique Muller died in an accident in the French Alps south of Grenoble. He passed away doing his favorite pastime: plane gliding. Dominique had a fiery curiosity that is at the heart of good science. He lived his passion for research in the laboratory, combining experimental creativity, warm mentors...

Thioredoxin Interacting Protein (TXNIP) mediates retinal inflammation, gliosis, and apoptosis in experimental diabetes. Here, we investigate the temporal response of Muller glia to high glucose (HG) and TXNIP expression using a rat Muller cell line (rMC1) in culture. We examined if HG-induced TXNIP expression evokes host defense mechanisms in rMC1 in response to metabolic abnormalities. HG caus...