Hypocretin/orexin modulates sleep-wake state via actions across multiple terminal fields. Within waking, hypocretin may also participate in high-arousal processes, including those associated with stress. The current studies examined the extent to which alterations in neuronal activity, as measured by Fos immunoreactivity, occur within both hypocretin-synthesizing and hypocretin-1 receptor-expre...

Facial expressions are often used in emotion research. Although they may differ in several relevant features such as the intensity of the facial expressions, the picture sets have not been compared systematically. Because the intensity of expressions is thought to determine the level of emotional arousal induced by the stimulus, the first aim of this study was to test whether 2 frequently used ...

Finding the exact, quantum corrected metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space in Type II string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds is an outstanding open problem. We address this issue by relating the quaternionic-Kähler metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space to the complex contact geometry on its twistor space. In this framework, Euclidean D-brane instantons are captured by contact...

W e quantify the observation by Kender and Freudenstein [6] that degenerate views occupy a significant fraction of the viewing sphere surrounding an object. This demonstrates that systems for recognition must explicitly account f o r the possibility of view degeneracy. W e show that view degeneracy cannot be detected f rom a single camera viewpoint. As a result, systems designed to recognize ob...

Over the past few years the understanding of the microscopic theory of black hole entropy has made important conceptual progress by recognizing that the degeneracies are encoded in partition functions which are determined by higher rank automorphic representations, in particular in the context of Siegel modular forms of genus two. In this brief review some of the elements of this framework are ...

As generalizations of the seniority model, four Hamiltonians are considered to investigate some of the physics associated with the pairing of parafermions of order p = 2. 2-particle and 4-particle states are explicitly constructed for HA ≡ −G A†A with A† ≡ 1 2 ∑ m>0 c † mc † −m and the distinct HC ≡ −G C†C with C† ≡ 1 2 ∑ m>0 c † −mc † m, and for the time-reversal invariant H(−) ≡ −G (A† − C†)(...

Precise definitions for different degrees of controllability for quantum systems are given, and necessary and sufficient conditions for each type of controllability are discussed. The results are applied to determine the degree of controllability for various atomic systems with degenerate energy levels and transition frequencies. Degrees of controllability for quantum systems and application to...

We show that in the worst case, Q(nd) sidedness queries are required to determine whether a set of n points in Rd is affinely degenerate, i .e . , whether it contains d + 1 points on a common hyperplane. This matches known upper bounds. We give a straightforward adversary argument, based on the explicit construction of a point set containing Q(nd) “collapsible” simplices, any one of which can b...