The phototactic behavior of individual cells of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803 was studied with a glass slide-based phototaxis assay. Data from fluence rate-response curves and action spectra suggested that there were at least two light input pathways regulating phototaxis. We observed that positive phototaxis in wild-type cells was a low fluence response, with peak spectra...

This paper focuses on the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) design for a classical two-user multiple access channel (MAC) with finite-alphabet inputs. In contrast to most of existing NOMA designs using continuous Gaussian input distributions, we consider practical quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations at both transmitters, the sizes of which are assumed to be not necessarily ...

The growing use of virtualization technologies in settings such as multi-tenant compute and storage clouds challenges us to both specify and enforce the isolation of clients sharing network and compute resources. In this paper we propose a novel analytical measure of performance isolation for shared resource systems serving multiple traffic flows or computing workloads. By basing our isolation ...

Rats explore their surroundings through rhythmic movement of their mystacial vibrissae. At any given moment, multiple whiskers are simultaneously moved and may contact the surface of an object. The aim of this work is to understand how simultaneous multiple-whisker deflections are processed in the somatosensory cortex. Arrays of 25 electrodes were inserted into the vibrissal representation of b...

This paper surveys methods to represent logic functions by cascades. First, a design method for multi-rail cascades with redundant inputs is shown. It uses logic minimization of SOPs (sumof-products expressions) or ESOPs (EXOR sum-of-products expressions) of multiple-valued inputs. Then, a design method for multi-rail cascades with irredundant inputs is shown. It uses functional decompositions ...

three artificial neural networks (ann) models; general regression neural network (grnn), redial basis function (rbf) and three layer multiple perceptron network were carried out to evaluate the prediction of the apparent metabolizable energy (ame) of wheat and corn from its chemical composition in broiler. input variables included: gross energy (ge), crude protein (cp), crude fiber (cf), ether ...

Recent studies have revealed that noxious visceral inputs travel in the dorsal column pathway, and interactions between colorectal noxious and tactile inputs occur in the ventrobasal thalamus. This investigation was to test whether the somatovisceral interactions also take place in the dorsal column nuclei (DCN). Forty-five single DCN neurons of anesthetized rats responsive to colorectal disten...