Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Evidence from Experimental and Computational Studies by Rosa Qi Yue So Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Warren M. Grill, Supervisor ___________________________ Roger C. Barr ___________________________ Craig S. Henriquez __________...

In spite of that Chinese species of the genus Omalus Panzer, 1801 were recently revised by Wei et al. (2014), the study of more material has revealed the presence of other four species: two of them are new, O. corrugatus Rosa, Wei & Xu, sp. nov. (China, Guangdong) and O. hainanensis Rosa, Wei & Xu, sp. nov. (China, Hainan); the other two are newly recorded from China, O. stella (Semenov & Nikol...

Treatment of mice with crude extract of Hibiscus rosa sinensis flowers (500 mg/kg BW) and Bougainvillea spectabilis leaves (800 mg/kg BW) for a period of 30 days indicates a significant increase in the level of hemoglobin and count of RBC but a significant decline in the level of MCH and MCV in the former case. On the other hand, in B. spectabilis treated animals, the level of hemoglobin, RBC c...

Process Algebras, PAs, are formalisms able to capture the behaviour of a computing system by, for example, giving the labelled transition system, LTS, where states are nodes and where all possible evolutions of the system are arcs; The drawing of the complete LTS is a NP-complete task, so that, the reaching of a particular ‘desired’ state is a problem which deserves some heuristic for improving...

We introduce indecomposable (hooked) Skolem sequences and we show their existence for all admissible orders. We then introduce a new construction for two-fold triple systems from two-fold Skolem sequences, and use this to motivate the concept of a two-fold Rosa sequence, whose existence we show for all admissible orders.

Trisomy 18: Frequency, Types, and Prognosis of Congenital Heart Defects in a Brazilian Cohort Rafael F.M. Rosa, Rosana C.M. Rosa, Marina B. Lorenzen, Ceres A.V. de Oliveira, Carla Graziadio, Paulo R.G. Zen, and Giorgio A. Paskulin* Graduate Program in Pathology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Sa ude de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), RS, Brazil Clinical Genetics, UFCSPA and Complexo Hospitalar Sant...

LETIZIA CAMPIONI*, JOSÉ HERNÁN SARASOLA, MIGUÉL SANTILLÁN and MARCOS MATÍAS REYES Department of Conservation Biology, Biological Station of Doñana, CSIC, c/Americo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain; Centro para el Estudio y Conservación de las Aves Rapaces en Argentina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Avda. Uruguay 151, 6300 Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina and Instituto de las Ciencias de la...

Pratylenchus vulnus is involved in a desease of Rosa noisettiana 'Manetti' rose rootstock characterized by darkening of roots, death of feeder roots, and stunting of entire plants. The disease is more severe when plants are grown in silt loam soil than when they are grown in sandy loam soil. The nematodes reproduce best in silt loam soil at 20 C. Meloidogyne hapla did not affect the growh of Ma...

This study shows that the fruit ßy,Ceratitis rosa (Karsch), has a signiÞcantly longer life span than the medßy, C. capitata (Wiedemann); the species used as a model organism for the demographics of insect aging. This was somewhat surprising given that both have similar distributions and overlapping niches. We postulate that the greater longevity of C. rosa is related to the fact that it can occ...