Calcium signaling plays a role in synaptic regulation of dendritic structure, usually on the time scale of hours or days. Here we use immunocytochemistry to examine changes in expression of plasma membrane calcium ATPase type 2 (PMCA2), a high-affinity calcium efflux protein, in the chick nucleus laminaris (NL) following manipulations of synaptic inputs. Dendrites of NL neurons segregate into d...

The nuclear lamina (NL) consists of lamin polymers and proteins that bind to the polymers. Disruption of NL proteins such as lamin and emerin leads to developmental defects and human diseases. However, the expression of multiple lamins, including lamin-A/C, lamin-B1, and lamin-B2, in mammals has made it difficult to study the assembly and function of the NL. Consequently, it has been unclear wh...

Third-order auditory neurons in the avian nucleus laminaris (NL) are the first to receive binaural input. In the chick, NL consists of a monolayer of neurons with polarized dendritic arbors oriented dorsally and ventrally. Afferents from second-order neurons in the ipsilateral nucleus magnocellularis (NM) innervate the dorsal dendrites of NL neurons, distributing processes of approximately equa...

INTRODUCTION Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has the highest prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Canada. Dyslipidemia is a risk factor for CVD. This study compares the prevalence of dyslipidemia in the NL population with the rest of Canada. METHODS A cross-sectional study, using data from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN), was undertaken. The study popu...

When applied to the nonlinear matter distribution of universe, neural networks have been shown be very statistically sensitive probes cosmological parameters, such as linear perturbation amplitude ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{8}$. However, when used a ``black box,'' are not robust baryonic uncertainty. We propose architecture for constraining primordial non-Gaussianity ${f}_{NL}$, by training networ...

The electron-ion recombination rate coefficient for Si IV forming Si III was measured at the heavyion storage-ring TSR. The experimental electron-ion collision energy range of 0–186 eV encompassed the 2p nl n′l′ dielectronic recombination (DR) resonances associated with 3s→ nl core excitations, 2s 2p 3s nl n′l′ resonances associated with 2s → nl (n = 3, 4) core excitations, and 2p 3s nl n′l′ re...

Kristian Borg, MD, SE (Chair), Frans Nollet, MD (Co-chair), NL, Jan Lexell, MD, SE, Lise Kay, MD, DK, Marianne Visser, MD, NL, Antonio Toniolo, MD, IT, Laura Bertolasi, MD, IT, Arzu On, MD, TR, Alain Yelnik, MD, FR, Merete Bertelsen, PT, DK, Els Symons, NL, John McFarlane, IR, Jozef Opara, MD, PL, Johan Klavik Stanghelle, MD, NO, Enric Portell, MD, ES, Helena Burger, MD, SI, Gunilla Östlund, MD...

Sharing resources in a systematic way is essential for conducting high quality scientific research but it imposes requirements on the documentation, visibility, referability, accessibility, and long term preservation of these resources. Sharing resources only makes sense when others can actually use them, which imposes requirements of interoperability on resources. In this paper we describe how...

Vapour recompression system has been used to enhance reduction in energy consumption and improvement in energy effectiveness of distillation columns. However, the effects of certain parameters have not been taken into consideration. One of such parameters is the column heat loss which has either been assumed to be a certain percent of reboiler heat transfer or negligible. The purpose of this st...

To effectively cooperate with a human, advanced manufacturing machines are expected to execute the industrial tasks according to human natural language (NL) instructions. However, NL instructions are not explicit enough to be understood and are not complete enough to be executed, leading to incorrected executions or even execution failure. To address these problems for better execution performa...