CHEKHOV AND SHOLOKHOV: REGULATED INTERSECTIONS

Physician writers: Anton Chekhov.

Pursuing medicine means to a large extent pursuing medical science. A medical career also includes a substantial amount of writing, particularly for those who enter academia. Apart from science, during their professional lifetimes medical people are exposed to thousands of life stories, into which they, by necessity, intrude. Dealing with individual illnesses, and thus patients’ bodies, brings ...

Listening to Chekhov: narrative approaches to depression.

Dendritic Branch Intersections Are Structurally Regulated Targets for Efficient Axonal Wiring and Synaptic Clustering

Synaptic clustering on dendritic branches enhances plasticity, input integration and neuronal firing. However, the mechanisms guiding axons to cluster synapses at appropriate sites along dendritic branches are poorly understood. We searched for such a mechanism by investigating the structural overlap between dendritic branches and axons in a simplified model of neuronal networks--the hippocampa...

Moduli and Brane Intersections

We discuss the worldvolume description of intersecting D-branes, including the metric on the moduli space of deformations. We impose a choice of static gauge that treats all the branes on an equal footing and describes the intersection of D-branes as an embedded special Lagrangian three-surface. Some explicit solutions to these equations are given and their interpretation in terms of a superpot...

Bifurcations, Intersections, and Heights

In this article, we prove the equivalence of dynamical stability, preperiodicity, and canonical height 0, for algebraic families of rational maps ft : P(C)→ P(C), parameterized by t in a quasi-projective complex variety. We use this to prove one implication in the if-and-only-if statement of [BD2, Conjecture 1.10] on unlikely intersections in the moduli space of rational maps; we present the co...