Neuronal circuits commonly receive simultaneous inputs from descending, ascending, and hormonal systems. Thus far, however, most such inputs have been studied individually to determine their influence on a given circuit. Here, we examine the integrated action of the hormone crustacean cardioactive peptide (CCAP) and the gastropyloric receptor (GPR) proprioceptor neuron on the biphasic gastric m...

Full-polarimetric ground penetrating radar (FP-GPR) can measure the ability of an object to change polarization electromagnetic waves. Compared traditional GPR, it has a stronger capability identify underground objects. In recent years, series decomposition methods have been applied FP-GPR data processing obtain polarimetric attributes and enhance targets identification. Different characterize ...

Thymus-expressed chemokine (TECK) has been reported to chemoattract dendritic cells, thymocytes, and activated macrophages. Here, we show that TECK is a specific agonist for a human orphan receptor called GPR-9-6. We have determined the cDNA sequence of human GPR-9-6 and cloned the corresponding murine cDNA. Human and murine GPR-9-6 expression is very high in the thymus and low in lymph nodes a...

This paper presents a novel method to calculate the reference source current and the referencecompensating current for shunt active power filters (SAPFs). This method first calculates theamplitude and phase of the fundamental load current from a recursive algebraic approach blockbefore calculating the displacement power factor. Next, the amplitude of the reference mains currentis computed with ...

In this paper, the amplitude and frequency AM–FM modulation model and a multiband demodulation analysis scheme are applied to formant frequency and bandwidth tracking of speech signals. Filtering by a bank of Gabor bandpass filters is performed to isolate each speech resonance in the signal. Next, the amplitude envelope AM and instantaneous frequency FM are estimated for each band using the ene...

Intelligent reservoir characterization using seismic attributes and hydraulic flow units has a vital role in the description of oil and gas traps. The predicted model allows an accurate understanding of the reservoir quality, especially at the un-cored well location. This study was conducted in two major steps. In the first step, the survey compared different intelligent techniques to discover ...

Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) is a powerful Bayesian method. However, the performance of GPR can be significantly degraded when the training data are contaminated by outliers, including target outliers and input outliers. Although there are some variants of GPR (e.g., GPR with Student-t likelihood (GPRT)) aiming to handle outliers, most of the variants focus on handling the target outliers ...

BACKGROUND Spindle positioning during an asymmetric cell division is of fundamental importance to ensure correct size of daughter cells and segregation of determinants. In the C. elegans embryo, the first spindle is asymmetrically positioned, and this asymmetry is controlled redundantly by two heterotrimeric Galpha subunits, GOA-1 and GPA-16. The Galpha subunits act downstream of the PAR polari...

During the last decade Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has proved its ability to act as a powerful geophysical tool for subsurface investigations. GPR is a more user friendly and cost-effective tool due to recent technological developments. Lower cost and simple operation has increased the practice of GPR in the utility locating market as well as other traditional markets. Deploying GPR methods ...