Slowly, slowly in the wind

Twisting Slowly, Slowly in the Wind: The Effect of Delay on a Surety's Obligations in Virginia

The Slowly Enlarging Ventriculus Terminalis

BACKGROUND A cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) cavity within the conus medullaris has been described by the term ventriculus terminalis (VT) or the fifth ventricle. The finding of a VT on MRI imaging of the lumbar spine is often incidental but may be found in patients with low back pain or neuromuscular deficits. These lesions, when identified, are thought to regress or remain stable in terms of size...

Slowly Building Excitement

While some neurons are tuned to integrate fast and precisely timed inputs, others set behavioral states on much slower timescales. In this issue of Cell, Branco et al. demonstrate that body weight is regulated by hypothalamic neurons using a highly effective form of slow synaptic integration, which is mediated by the voltage gated sodium channel Nav1.7.

The slowly formed Guiselin brush

– We study polymer layers formed by irreversible adsorption from a polymer melt. Our theory describes an experiment which is a “slow” version of that proposed by Guiselin (Europhys. Lett., 17 (1992) 225) who considered instantaneously irreversibly adsorbing chains and predicted a universal density profile of the layer after swelling with solvent to produce the “Guiselin brush”. Here we ask what...

The "Burnside Process" Converges Slowly

We consider the problem of sampling \unlabelled structures", i.e., sampling combi-natorial structures modulo a group of symmetries. The main tool which has been used for this sampling problem is Burnside's lemma. In situations where a signiicant proportion of the structures have no non-trivial symmetries, it is already fairly well understood how to apply this tool. More generally, it is possibl...