Electrical properties of gap-junction connected cells (input voltage and length constant) are shown to depend strongly on fluctuations in membrane and contact conductances. This opens new possibilities and incorporates a further difficulty to the analysis of electrophysiological data, since four, instead of two, parameters (the average values and the magnitude of fluctuations of the two conduct...

Introduction: Studies have shown that low frequency temporal components (<0.1Hz) in resting state BOLD fMRI reflect spontaneous fluctuations of brain physiology and metabolism, which form the basis for the widely adopted “functional connectivity” analysis to characterize the resting state using BOLD fMRI[1]. Studies also found significant linear correlations between activation induced BOLD sign...

Direct sequence spread spectrum transmissions (DSSS) are now widely used for secure communications, as well as for multiple access. Since the transmission uses a large bandwidth, the power spectral density of a DS-SS signal can be below the noise level. Hence, such a signal is difficult to detect. In this paper, we propose a method which is able to detect a spread spectrum signal hidden in the ...

Many models of early structure formation predict a period of heating immediately preceding reionization, when X-rays raise the gas temperature above that of the cosmic microwave background. These X-rays are often assumed to heat the intergalactic medium (IGM) uniformly, but in reality will heat the gas more strongly closer to the sources. We develop a framework for calculating fluctuations in t...

Symmetry breaking caused by geometric fluctuations can enable processes that are otherwise forbidden. An example is a perylene bisimide dyad whose dipole moments are perpendicular to each other. Förster-type energy transfer is thus forbidden at the equilibrium geometry since the dipolar coupling vanishes. Yet, fluctuations of the geometric arrangement have been shown to induce finite energy tra...

The brightness temperature fluctuations in the 21 cm background related to neutral Hydrogen distribution provide a probe of physics related to the era of reionization when the intergalactic medium changed from a completely neutral to a partially ionized one. We formulate statistics of 21 cm brightness temperature anisotropies in terms of the angular power spectrum, the bispectrum, and the trisp...

We present detailed predictions for the redshifted 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization. These predictions are obtained from radiative transfer calculations on the results of large scale (100/h Mpc), high dynamic range, cosmological simulations. We consider several scenarios for the reionization history, of both early and extended reionization. From the simulations we construct and analyz...

Highlights • Spontaneous hemodynamic fluctuations display spatio-temporal organization. • Task-free fMRI has become a powerful approach for studying properties of large-scale brain networks and their clinical implications. • There remain challenges in interpreting results of task-free fMRI studies, as the neural origins of spontaneous hemodynamic signals are not well understood and fMRI data al...

Recent research has suggested that the geostatistical structure of ground-penetrating radar data may be representative of the spatial structure of hydraulic properties. However, radar images of the subsurface can change drastically with application of signal processing or by changing the signal frequency. We perform geostatistical analyses of surface radar reflection profiles in order to invest...

Resting-state data sets contain coherent fluctuations unrelated to neural processes originating from residual motion artefacts, respiration and cardiac action. Such confounding effects may introduce correlations and cause an overestimation of functional connectivity strengths. In this study we applied several multidimensional linear regression approaches to remove artificial coherencies and exa...