The growth pattern and seasonal weight fluctuations of feral raccoons in Hokkaido were evaluated between 1999 and 2001. The growth rates in body length and body weight were described for juveniles (young of the year) and yearlings (animals born in the previous season) using the Gompertz growth model. The asymptotic body sizes for males were greater than those for females. Young raccoons born du...

Author contributions: J.Z., L.Z., X.J., J.T., Y.A., P.A.R., and R.G.K. designed Genetic or pharmacological inhibition of cytohesins protects motor neurons in vitro. A New Chapter in the Life of Cajal's Short-Axon Neurons: Separation of The authors identify circuit mechanisms that allow for stringent control of male. Abstract 20189: Renal Denervation With Neuron Targeted Nanoparticles Attenuates...

This paper presents an alternative approach for controlling the walking and balancing of a bipedal robot. The proposed method uses a neuronal. Challenge level: Create silly walk robot that uses linkages program your vehicle to 'read' colored tape road instructions( youtu.be/4M9gJQGYsTI ) NxT/EV3 Player Piano: Use the color or light sensor to 'read' a roll of paper. Build a robot from paper piec...

We present an approach to utterance representation which views utterances and their sub-constituents as instructions for contextual update: programs in a dynamic logic defined with respect to the dialogue gameboard of (Ginzburg, 1996; Fernández, 2003b). This approach allows utterance processing protocols to be represented within the grammar rather than postulated as separate dialogue processes:...

In two corpus annotation projects, we followed similar strategies for developing annotation instructions and obtained good inter-coder reliability results for both (the instructions are similar in style to Allen & Core 1996). Our goal in developing the annotation instructions was that they can be used reliably, after a reasonable amount of training, by taggers who are non-experts but who have g...

We believe that computer animation in the form of narrated animated simulations can provide an engaging, effective and flexible medium for instructing agents in the performance of tasks. However, we argue that the only way to achieve the kind of flexibility needed to instruct agents of varying capabilities to perform tasks with varying demands in work places of varying layout is to drive both a...

A photoresponsive ion carrier based on calix[4]arene was synthesized for the control of Na+ flux across lipid bilayer membranes by visible light. Calix[4]arene was chosen as a basic skeleton of a photoresponsive ion carrier because its ether derivatives are known to act as Na+ ion carriers in lipid bilayer membranes. For the synthesis of a photoresponsive carrier, dimethylaminoazobenzene was in...

Atomic instructions atomically access and update one or more memory locations. Because they do not incur the overhead of lock acquisition or suspend the executing thread during contention, they may allow higher levels of concurrency on multiprocessors than lock-based synchronization. Wait-free data structures are an important application of atomic instructions, and extend these performance bene...