It is not clear how information related to cognitive or psychological processes is carried by or represented in the responses of single neurons. One provocative proposal is that precisely timed spike patterns play a role in carrying such information. This would require that these spike patterns have the potential for carrying information that would not be available from other measures such as s...

Spikes in the membrane electrical potentials of neurons play a major role in the functioning of nervous systems of animals. Obtaining the spikes from different neurons has been a challenging problem for decades. Several schemes have been proposed for spike sorting to isolate the spikes of individual neurons from electrical recordings in extracellular media. However, there is much scope for impr...

Seven F3 progenies and their 8 parental lines of spring wheat were evaluated for some genetic parameters viz., coefficient of variability (Cv), genetic variance (Vg), heritability percentage (h %) and genetic advance (GA) in 7 quantitative characters (grain yield and its associated traits). Highly significant (p≤0.01) differences were observed for all the characters viz. plant height, number of...

The variability of neuronal responses is proportional to the mean in many brain areas, which suggests that neural responses might follow a Poisson distribution. In this issue of Neuron, Maimon and Assad document a surprising violation of Poisson firing. Specifically, they show that there are differences in the amount of periodic structure in spike trains across cortical areas, with multimodal s...

The interactive effects of elevated [CO2] and drought on leaf photosynthesis, physiology yield in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are not well understood. This study evaluated the persistent stress (35–45% field water capacity) CO2 (ambient concentration + 200 ?mol mol–1) chlorophyll fluorescence, physiological indices, biomass, grain weight (in g m?2) two cultivars (large-spike cultivar Z175 mult...

to evaluate the genetic diversity in twenty barley genotypes, an experiment based on randomized complete block design with three replications was done at agriculture researches station of ardabil, iran in 2009-10. investigated traits of this study was included days to flowering, plant height, 1000 seed weight, number of infertile tiller, number of seed per spike, harvest index, days to maturity...

Self-Assembled Nanostructures In article number 2107925, Ender Ercan, Wen-Chang Chen, and co-workers introduce self-assembled nanostructures of perovskite (CsPbBr3) quantum dot (QD)/poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) composite nanofibrils to understand the morphology/optoelectronic relationship. The photonic artificial synapse exhibits fundamental functions, including short-term plasticity, long-ter...

the responses of isabgol (plantago ovata forsk.) to micronutrient foliar application under low irrigation condition were investigated. the experiment was carried out in agricultural research farm of zabol university, iran, during growing season of 2007-2008. the experiment was conducted in spilt plot using randomized complete block design with four replications. three irrigation regimes defined...

We rigorously prove results on spiky patterns for the Gierer-Meinhardt system [5] with a large number of jump discontinuities in the diffusion coefficient of the inhibitor. Using numerical computations in combination with a Turing-type instability analysis, this system has been investigated by Benson, Maini and Sherratt [1], [3], [9]. We first review results on the case of two segments given in...