bulbospinal noradrenergic pathways are shown to have an important role in descending inhibition of pain sensation. locus ceruleus (lc), as a rich noradrenergic nucleus in the brain stem which has projections into the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, was evaluated for antinociceptive activity by using tonic and phasic pain models in the rat. lc-lesioned rats demonstrated moderate increase in both...

The photosphere provides an important boundary condition for prominence support. The conservation of pho-tospheric flux (sometimes called line tying) sets a serious constraint on the evolution of coronal magnetic fields. This boundary condition can only be communicated to the prominence by Alfvén and magneto-acoustic waves. As a result, the boundary condition as experienced by the prominence at...

In recent work [1], we have suggested a novel approach for fine-grained and fast prominence annotation by naı̈ve listeners. Our approach relies on annotators’ “drummed” replications of a perceived utterance, modulating their drumming velocity in accordance with the perceptual prominence of consecutive linguistic units (syllables, words). The drumming velocity is then used as a fine-grained opera...

Context. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), as a large-scale eruptive phenomenon, often reveal some precursors in the initiation phase, e.g., X-ray brightening, filament darkening, etc, which are useful for CME modeling and space weather forecast. Aims. With the SOHO/SUMER spectroscopic observations of the 2000 September 26 event, we propose another precursor for CME eruptions, namely, long-time pr...

This paper examines the implications of “prominence” in search markets. We model prominence by supposing that the prominent firm will be sampled first by all consumers. If there are no systematic quality differences among firms, we find that the prominent firm will charge a lower price than its non-prominent rivals. The impact of making a firm prominent is that it will typically lead to higher ...

We explore the ability to perform automatic prosodic analysis in one language using models trained on another. If we are successful, we should be able to identify prosodic elements in a language for which little or no prosodically labeled training data is available, using models trained on a language for which such training data exists. Given the laborious nature of manual prosodic annotation, ...

Based on reasonable assumptions and mathematical approximations a one dimensional, analytical model for solar quiescent prominences is constructed, which is in both magnetohydrostatic and thermal equilibrium. Thermal equilibrium here is a balance among thermal conduction, radiation and wave heating. The wave heating (H) is assumed to be equal to a constant (EH ) times the product of pressure (p...