Professor Geoffrey Burnstock is a neuroscientist and he received his PhD Degree from University College London. He is President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College Medical School. His work has been recognised by various honours, such as ‘Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digestive Sciences’ a 2000 Janssen Award in Gastroenterology’, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of P...

Abstract—In multicast applications requiring receiver feedback, the primary impediment to receiver-set scalability stems from the feedback implosion problem. Some applications only need feedback from a single, representative receiver. For example, an adaptive video server may only need to know the video quality for the worst receiver. Soliciting a response from a receiver with the specific metr...

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Roland Brandt studied Biochemistry and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and the Free University of Berlin in Germany. He performed his doctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, after which he continued as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Neurologic Diseases (CND), Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA). By returning to Germany, he became an i...

Prof. István Bókkon graduated as a chemical engineer and later as a bioengineer at the Technical University Budapest. Then, he performed PhD studies and got pre-degree certificate at the Semmelweis University in Pharmacology. He is a professor at Vision Research Institute, Neuroscience and Consciousness Research Department in USA, and is also a lecturer at Károli Gáspár University of the Reform...

During this quarter we have concentrated on the analysis of crossover data in Antarctica from both GLAS laser 1 and laser 2. The results of these analyses are presented below. Thomas Herring gave a talk on ICESat to the faculty of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences on the day that Laser 2 was turned on. The talk has been added to the MIT ICESat web page (http://www-gpsg...

Dr. Hill received his academic training at the University of London. He was a lecturer of Pharmacology at the University of Bristol School of Medicine from 1974 to 1983 and supervisor of Pharmacology at Downing College, University of Cambridge from 1983 to 1988. He joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1983 as Head of Biology at the Park Davis Research Unit, Cambridge. In 1988, he joined Smith,...

RESEARCH INTERESTS Stress in all forms has dire consequences for the overall health of individuals. Dr. Alkadhi’s lab focuses on studying the coincidence of chronic psychosocial stress and disorders that affect brain function such as Alzheimer’s disease, hypothyroidism and sleep deprivation. We recently have developed a preclinical rat model of Alzheimer’s disease to test the role of chronic st...