Temporal tuning property of motion aftereffect (MAE) with flickering test stimuli (flicker MAE) was examined. Using sinusoidal gratings of several spatial frequencies (SF), MAE strength was measured for various adapting temporal frequencies (TF). Unlike the traditional MAE with static test field, the results indicated that flicker MAE did not depend on TF. Rather, when plotted as a function of ...

In this paper a new variation of the well known MAE (Mean Absolute Error) matching criterion for video coding applications, is introduced. The MAE criterion is simpler than the MSE criterion because of the lack of multiplication operations, but it achieves a lower performance in terms of PSNR and MSE. In this work we impose an additional statistical constraint over the MAE thus filling the perf...

A new method, using phase-reversing sinusoidal gratings to cancel perceived motion, was developed to measure the motion aftereffect (MAE). This technique was used to show the existence of a remote MAE, i.e. an MAE in areas that were not directly stimulated during adaptation. In several experiments, this remote MAE was compared to the local MAE. The remote effect was generally weaker and of shor...

Atmospheric photooxidation of isoprene is an important source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and there is increasing evidence that anthropogenic oxidant emissions can enhance this SOA formation. In this work, we use ambient observations of organosulfates formed from isoprene epoxydiols (IEPOX) and methacrylic acid epoxide (MAE) and a broad suite of chemical measurements to investigate the r...

Yan, an ETS family transcriptional repressor, is regulated by receptor tyrosine kinase signaling via the Ras/MAPK pathway. Phosphorylation and downregulation of Yan is facilitated by a protein called Mae. Yan and Mae interact through their SAM domains. We find that repression by Yan requires the formation of a higher order structure mediated by Yan-SAM polymerization. Moreover, a crystal struct...

Let k ≥ 0 and n ≥ 2 be integers. A SOMA, or more specifically a SOMA(k, n), is an n×n array A, whose entries are k-subsets of a kn-set Ω, such that each element of Ω occurs exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column of A, and no 2-subset of Ω is contained in more than one entry of A. A SOMA(k, n) can be constructed by superposing k mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order n with...

In mammals, numerous autosomal genes are subject to mitotically stable monoallelic expression (MAE), including genes that play critical roles in a variety of human diseases. Due to challenges posed by the clonal nature of MAE, very little is known about its regulation; in particular, no molecular features have been specifically linked to MAE. In this study, we report an approach that distinguis...

In 2008, potential temperature compromise of one lot of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) led to the revaccination of 13,210 Kaiser Permanente Northwest members within 28 days of receipt of their initial TIV dose. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to determine if these individuals experienced a higher rate of medically attended events (MAE) than those receiving only one TIV ...

Monoallelic expression of autosomal genes (MAE) is a widespread epigenetic phenomenon which is poorly understood, due in part to current limitations of genome-wide approaches for assessing it. Recently, we reported that a specific histone modification signature is strongly associated with MAE and demonstrated that it can serve as a proxy of MAE in human lymphoblastoid cells. Here, we use murine...

Herman Doose first described the generalized childhood epilepsy syndrome of myoclonic astatic epilepsy (MAE) in 1970, attributing a genetic cause from this first description. However, although the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) defined criteria for MAE in 1989, the diagnostic boundaries of the syndrome continue to be debated. Moreover, 40 years since Doose's first description of M...