Over the past decade, autonomous agents have become an increasingly mature technology to collect data over the internet. Intended originally for commercial purposes, e.g. comparing prices on internet auction sides on behalf of their owners, submitting offers or forming strategic alliances to benefit from bulk discounts, the same attributes that make them suitable in the commercial sector have r...

When skin is stretched, stimuli experienced by a cutaneous mechanoreceptor neuron are transmitted to the nerve ending through the skin. In these experiments, we tested the hypothesis that the viscoelastic response of the skin influences the dynamic response of cutaneous rapidly adapting (RA) neurons. Cutaneous RA afferent neurons were recorded in 3 species of mice (Tsk, Pallid, and C57BL6) whos...

The current study aimed to examine the influence of body fat percentage on thermal responses to water immersion at the two temperature extremes used in athletic recovery, by comparing the thermal responses of lowand high-fat individuals to immersion in hot water (HWI) or cold water (CWI). Thirty-nine subjects completed a body composition assessment (to determine low-fat and high-fat groups), an...

This year marks 200 years of patient care at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In celebration of this milestone, a unique Grand Rounds case is presented. A 450-year-old rotund man admitted 60 times presents with a classic triad of periumbilical pain, bilateral plantar burns, and a frozen scalp. Although this triad may at first strike a cord of familiarity among seasoned clinicians, the ...

Introduction 1 Types of Exocrine Sweat Glands 2 Structure of the Eccrine Sweat Gland 2 Secretory Coil 2 Reabsorptive Sweat Duct 2 Sympathetic Nervous System Control of Sweating 3 Substances Used To Determine Sweat Gland Function In Vitro 3 Formation of Primary Sweat 4 Calcium Mobilisation Mediators 4 Effect of Increased Intracellular Calcium on Sweat Secretion 5 Other Biochemical Requirements f...

An important ingredient in understanding such sentences is resolving the question of: level in/of what? protection from what? what sort of documents? danger from what? Each of these is an example coming from novels, television commercials, and news reports. In the first instance, it is from a commercial for a brand of computers. In the commercial, which is pushing the most recent version of tha...

Among cytoplasmic protein-tyrosine kinases (PTKs) Tec now forms a novel subfamily with recently identified Tec-related PTKs (Btk and ltk/Tsk). Tec is known to be abundantly expressed in myeloid cells, and multiple forms of Tec protein can be generated via the mechanism of alternative splicing. In this report, we have inveatigated 5“terminal diversity of the tec messages to demonstrate a predomi...

This paper discusses the use of genetic algorithms to enhance the efficiency of transition rule calibration in cellular automata urban growth modeling. The cellular automata model is designed as a function of multitemporal satellite imagery and population density. Transition rules in the model identify the required neighborhood urbanization level for a test pixel to develop to urban. Calibratio...