We analyze the effect of noise in integrate-and-fire neurons driven by time-dependent input and compare the diffusion approximation for the membrane potential to escape noise. It is shown that for time-dependent subthreshold input, diffusive noise can be replaced by escape noise with a hazard function that has a gaussian dependence on the distance between the (noise-free) membrane voltage and t...

In this paper we present methods to generate terrain models for mountainous regions. For these regions analytical and statistical methods are unsuitable for predicting service coverage probability, call blocking and termination probabilities. Modeled terrains are used to simulate environmental conditions in integrated mobile terrestrial and satellite communications systems. A coverage analysis ...

Teleost and amphibian prey undertake fast-start escape responses during a predatory attack in an attempt to avoid being captured. Although previously viewed as a reflex reaction controlled by the autonomic nervous system, the escape responses of individuals when repeatedly startled are highly variable in their characteristics, suggesting some behavioural mediation of the response. Previous stud...

The Angel-Devil game is an infinite game played on an infinite chess board: In each move the Angel, a generalized chess king, jumps from his current square to some location at distance at most k, while his opponent, the Devil, blocks squares trying to strand the Angel. The Angel wins if he manages to fly on forever. It is a long-standing open question whether some Angel of sufficiently large po...

Migration of fine materials such as soil from the roadbed and ground will gradually pollute aggregate in arrester bed truck escape ramps. However, there are few studies on impact pollution stopping distance runaway vehicles. This paper uses discrete element method to study influence aggregates with different degrees by taking silty cohesive a typical pollutant. In this paper, process uncontroll...

Triangulated surfaces are often used to represent terrains in Geographic Information Systems (GIS); one of the primary computations on terrains is determining drainage networks. Under natural deenitions of the ow of water on a terrain represented by n triangles, we show that the river network has (n 3) worst-case complexity, where complexity is measured in the number of line segments that make ...

Nitric oxide (NO) is thought to be involved in spatial learning and memory in several brain areas such as hippocampus. This study examined the effects of post-training intrahippocampal microinjections of 1400W as a selective iNOS inhibitor on spatial memory, in anesthetized and non-anesthetized situations in rats. In the present work, 4-day training trials of animals were conducted. Spatial mem...

Nitric oxide (NO) is thought to be involved in spatial learning and memory in several brain areas such as hippocampus. This study examined the effects of post-training intrahippocampal microinjections of 1400W as a selective inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) inhibitor on spatial memory, in both anesthetized and non-anesthetized situations in rats. In the present work, 4-day training trials...

This work presents a method that allows the deformation of a terrain by modifying its heightmap in an augmented reality environment. The hierarchical structure of A48 meshes was used to represent terrains. This structure defines a parameter space to calculate the coordinates of a field in the R3 Euclidean space. In particular, this paper deals with the problem of modeling spherical terrains. An...