The metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR6), expressed by rod bipolar cells and ON cone bipolar cells, activates a trimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G-protein) that ultimately closes a cation channel. The G-protein remains unidentified, but the alpha subunit of Go (Go(alpha)) has been suggested as a candidate because it is present in rod bipolar cells. However, the precise subcellul...

Astrocyte-rich and astrocyte-poor cultures derived from embryonic rat cerebral cortex were compared to determine whether differences in the location of neuronal somas, dendrites, axons, synapses or astrocytes, relative to the bulk culture medium, could help to explain the large difference in neuronal susceptibility to glutamate toxicity between the two culture systems. The cultures were process...

MAE 204. Engineering Mechanics I Statics. 3 Credits. Introduction to mechanical engineering problems and their solutions through the study of statics of particles and rigid bodies. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of the static loads with the mechanical properties of the materials being considered. Introduction to the concepts of stress and strain and internal forces as applied to st...

MAE 204. Engineering Mechanics I Statics. 3 Credits. Introduction to mechanical engineering problems and their solutions through the study of statics of particles and rigid bodies. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of the static loads with the mechanical properties of the materials being considered. Introduction to the concepts of stress and strain and internal forces as applied to st...

MAE 204. Engineering Mechanics I Statics. 3 Credits. Introduction to mechanical engineering problems and their solutions through the study of statics of particles and rigid bodies. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of the static loads with the mechanical properties of the materials being considered. Introduction to the concepts of stress and strain and internal forces as applied to st...

Consider a deterministic dynamical system in a domain containing a stable equilibrium, e.g., a particle in a potential well. The particle, independent of initial conditions, eventually reaches the bottom of the well. If however, the particle is subjected to white noise, due, e.g., to collisions with a population of smaller, lighter particles comprising the medium through which the particle trav...

Three new data sets for intermolecular interactions, AHB21 for anion-neutral dimers, CHB6 for cation-neutral dimers, and IL16 for ion pairs, are assembled here, with complete-basis CCSD(T) results for each. These benchmarks are then used to evaluate the accuracy of the single-exchange approximation that is used for exchange energies in symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT), and the accura...

This study evaluated the performance of the newly developed forestry version of DRAINMOD-NII model using a long term (21-year) data set collected from an artificially drained loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation in eastern North Carolina, U.S.A. The model simulates the main hydrological and biogeochemical processes in drained forested lands. The model was calibrated using observed data dur...