This work investigates whether the scale-up to multi-animal exposures that is commonly applied in genomics studies provides equivalent toxicity outcomes to single-animal experiments of standard Daphnia magna toxicity assays. Specifically, we tested the null hypothesis that intraspecific interactions (ISI) among D. magna have neither effect on the life history strategies of this species, nor imp...

In a discrete multitone receiver, a time-domain equalizer (TEQ) reduces intersymbol interference (ISI) by shortening the effective duration of the channel impulse response. Current TEQ design methods such as minimum mean-squared error (MMSE), maximum shortening SNR (MSSNR), and maximum geometric SNR (MGSNR) do not directly maximize bit rate. In this paper, we develop two TEQ design methods to m...

We consider the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channel with intersymbol interference (ISI) in which a transmitter (Alice) wishes to securely communicate with a receiver (Bob) in presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). We focus on the practically relevant setting in which there is no channel state information (CSI) at Alice about either of the channels to Bob or Eve, except statistical...

OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted to determine the reproducibility of peri-implant tissue assessment using the new implant success index (ISI) in comparison with the Misch classification. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this descriptive study, 22 cases of peri-implant soft tissue with different conditions were selected, and color slides were prepared from them. The slides were shown to peri...

The increased expression of c-myc is related to neoplastic transformation and angiogenesis. Therefore, the assessment of expression of c-myc in endothelial cells and neovascularization could help to determine the biological behavior of the tumor. We analyzed neovascularization and c-myc expression in 36 medulloblastoma specimens. The results were shown by determining immunohistochemical stainin...

Fluency influences grammaticality judgments of visually presented strings in artificial grammar learning (AGL). Of many potential sources that engender fluency, symmetry is considered to be an important factor. However, symmetry may function differently for visual and auditory stimuli, which present computationally different problems. Thus, the current study aimed to examine whether objectively...

In this paper, which is an extended version of our work at LVA/ICA 2010 [1], the problem of Inter Symbol Interface (ISI) Sparse channel estimation and equalization will be investigated. We firstly propose an adaptive method based on the idea of Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm and the concept of smoothed l0 (SL0) norm presented in [2] for estimation of sparse ISI channels. Afterwards, a new no...

Action potentials in neostriatal cholinergic interneurons recorded in vivo are triggered by summation of two or three discrete synaptic depolarizations (Wilson et al., 1990). The ability and precision with which EPSPs and IPSPs regulate action potential timing was therefore investigated in vitro. Cholinergic interneurons were identified on the basis of morphological and electrophysiological cha...