The paper defines a non-cooperative simultaneous finite game to study coalition structure formation with intra and inter-coalition externalities. The novelty of the game is that the game definition embeds a coalition structure formation mechanism. This mechanism portions a set of strategies of the game into partitionspecific strategy domains, what makes every partition to be a noncooperative ga...

Wang X, Pinter MJ, Rich MM. Ca dependence of the binomial parameters p and n at the mouse neuromuscular junction. J Neurophysiol 103: 659–666, 2010. First published November 25, 2009; doi:10.1152/jn.00708.2009. The Ca dependence of synaptic quantal release is generally thought to be restricted to probability of vesicular release. However, some studies have suggested that the number of release s...

Motor and sensory proprioceptive axons reinnervate muscles after peripheral nerve transections followed by microsurgical reattachment; nevertheless, motor coordination remains abnormal and stretch reflexes absent. We analyzed the possibility that permanent losses of central IA afferent synapses, as a consequence of peripheral nerve injury, are responsible for this deficit. VGLUT1 was used as a ...

Filatov GN, Pinter MJ, Rich MM. Role of Ca in injuryinduced changes in sodium current in rat skeletal muscle. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 297: C352–C359, 2009. First published June 3, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00021.2009.—Characteristics of voltagedependent sodium current recorded from adult rat muscle fibers in loose patch mode were rapidly altered following nearby impalement with a microelectro...

test generation. The process of test generation is automated by GOTCHA, which explores the state space described by the GDL model. The user has several alternative test generation strategies, including breadth-first search, coverage-directed search, and on-the-fly test generation. Breadth-first search and on-the-fly test generation algorithms are well known. Coverage-first search involves givin...

The use of social network analysis to examine the behavior of social animals has grown rapidly in the past decade. Highly accessible books introducing network analysis techniques to the animal behavior research community (Croft et al., 2008; Whitehead, 2008) provide a gateway to the field. Furthermore, periodical reviews outlining the progress of the field and introducing both new biological qu...

interval and that total forage production was higher for plots harvested at 6-wk compared with 4-wk intervals. Eastern gamagrass [Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.] is a perennial, The effects of plant population density on horticulwarm-season bunchgrass native to the Americas. Although much is tural and field crops is well established (Wade et al., known about the effects of fertilization and harv...