Experiments with drug-induced epilepsy in rat brains and epileptic human brain region reveal that focal cooling can suppress epileptic discharges without affecting the brain's normal neurological function. Findings suggest a viable treatment for intractable epilepsy cases via an implantable cooling device. However, precise mechanisms by which cooling suppresses epileptic discharges are still no...

Some theoretical aspects of B physics are reviewed. These include a brief recapitulation of information on weak quark transitions as described by the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, descriptions of CP asymmetries in B decays to CP eigenstates and to self-tagging modes, a discussion of final-state phases in B and charm decays, some topics on Bs properties and decays, prospects for unusua...

The utilization of co-firing (coal-biomass) in existing coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) is the fastest and most effective way to increase renewable energy mix, which has been dominated by pulverized coal (PC) boilers, particularly Indonesian context. This study aims investigate technical economic aspects conducting a pilot project three PC boiler capturing several preliminary figures before bei...

The pilot-scale NOx and SOx simultaneous removal from boiler emission was performed using radical injection and chemical hybrid process. The radical injection is often called as indirect plasma (or remote plasma) and air radicals are produced at room temperature with less than 1/10 of the flue gas flow rate. The flue gas from the boiler was in the range of 450~1,470 Nm/hr, the gas temperature o...

We report on a theoretical study showing that the leak conductance density, G{L} , in the squid giant axon appears to be optimal for the action potential firing frequency. More precisely, the standard assumption that the leak current is composed of chloride ions leads to the result that the experimental value for G{L} is very close to the optimal value in the Hodgkin-Huxley model, which minimiz...

1. Preface 1 2. The Dolbeault Moduli Space 3 2.1. Higgs bundles 3 2.2. The moduli space 8 2.3. The Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence 13 3. The Betti Moduli Space 22 3.1. Representation varieties 22 3.2. Local systems and holomorphic connections 23 3.3. The Corlette-Donaldson theorem 27 3.4. Hyperkähler reduction 32 4. Differential Equations 34 4.1. Uniformization 34 4.2. Higher order equations 3...

We introduce equations for special metrics, and notions of stability for some new types of augmented holomorphic bundles. These new examples include holomorphic extensions, and in this case we prove a Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence between a certain deformation of the Hermitian-Einstein equations and our definition of stability for an extension. §

We examine the problem of three generation quark flavor mixing in realistic, superstring derived standard–like models, constructed in the free fermionic formulation. We study the sources of family mixing in these models and discuss the necessary conditions to obtain a realistic Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) mixing matrix. In a specific model, we estimate the mixing angles and discuss the weak...

introduction: loss of inhibitory output from purkinje cells leads to hyperexcitability of the deep cerebellar nuclei (dcn), which results in cerebellar ataxia. also, inhibition of small-conductancecalcium-activated potassium (sk) channel increases firing rate  f dcn, which could cause cerebellar ataxia. therefore, sk channel activators can be effective in reducing the symptoms of this disease, ...

By use of the one-loop renormalization group equations and current experimental data, we study the off-diagonal asymmetries of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix at the GUT scale in the framework of the standard model as well as its two Higgs and supersymmetric extensions. It is concluded that the possibility of a symmetric CKM matrix at the GUT scale has almost been ruled out.