Two long-standing questions in neuroscience concern the mechanisms underlying our abilities to make decisions and to store goal-relevant information in memory for seconds at a time. Recent experimental and theoretical advances suggest that NMDA receptors at intrinsic cortical synapses play an important role in both these functions. The long NMDA time constant is suggested to support persistent ...

Educational quality varies in the degree to which they attempt to deal with different completing aspects of quality such as relative importance of various quality attributes of key process areas. With the emerging of information and communication technology, educational quality has drastically changed. This revolution has brought radical change in the way educational data are generated for ease...

As the government continues to evolve and implement Lead System Integrator (LSI) acquisition strategies, they have started to define numerous program initiatives that employ more integrated engineering and management processes and techniques. These initiatives are developing varying acquisition approaches that define (1) mission-level capability oriented architectures, (2) system-of-system impl...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that improving people's ability to deal with their finances, their financial capability, will directly improve their wellbeing and indirectly their health. To this end, financial capability initiatives have been funded by statutory and charitable health bodies, sometimes as part of a practice termed 'social prescribing'. DISCUSSION This paper examines financia...

The Lunar Architecture Stochastic Simulator and Optimizer (LASSO) is a simulationbased capability, based upon discrete event simulation (DES), for evaluating and optimizing flight element options for lunar transportation architectures. This simulation capability improves the ability to rapidly measure cost, reliability, and schedule impacts of various toplevel architecture decisions and individ...

This paper presents a dynamic data driven approach of describing driving variability in microscopic traffic simulations for both normal and emergency situations. A four-layer DGIT (Decision, Games, Individual and Transform) framework provides the capability of describing the driving variability among different scenarios, vehicles, time and models. A four-step CCAR (Capture, Calibration, Analysi...

This article integrates social network and exchange theory to develop a model of customer value based on three relational drivers: relationship quality (the caliber of relational ties), contact density (the number of relational ties), and contact authority (the decision-making capability of relational contacts). The results suggest that the value generated from interfirm relationships derives n...

every firm learns through firm specific methods. this learning process is operationalized by firm’s knowledge management practices. therefore, knowledge to result in successful learning should be assisted by a combinative framework which can enhance a firms’ absorptive capability. this in turn will play a decisive role for achieving competitive advantage. current literature in strategic managem...

Gregarious insects, like cockroaches, aggregate in shelters during their resting period. How do individuals reach a collegial decision? What is the relation between the distributions of the individuals and the parameter values characterizing the population and the environment? With a model based on experimental data, we demonstrated that the collegial decision is based on the relation between t...