Models of unsupervised correlation-based (Hebbian) synaptic plasticity are typically unstable: either all synapses grow until each reaches the maximum allowed strength, or all synapses decay to zero strength. A common method of avoiding these outcomes is to use a constraint that conserves or limits the total synaptic strength over a cell. We study the dynamical e ects of such constraints. Two m...

c We describe for untagged 77 experiments a specific and very fast Monte Carlo based on the Double-Equivalent-Photon Approximation. This generator takes into account the experimental constraints in order to perform approximations involving experimentally unobservable effects and to generate events only within the experimental acceptance. It allows a very fast simulation of the events of any cro...

This study investigated whether endurance training is effective for successful long-term weight maintenance after weight reduction. Fifteen male obese subjects (age, 37.3+/-5.2 years; body weight [BW], 96.2+/-13.6 kg; body mass index [BMI], 30.9+/-2.8 kg x m(-2)) participated in a 16-month exercise-intervention study. During the first 4 months, all subjects trained three to four times weekly, c...

BACKGROUND The effect on performance of protein ingestion during or after exercise is not clear. This has largely been attributed to the utilization of different scientific protocols and the neglection of accounting for factors such as differences in physical and chemical properties of protein supplements and differences in athletic performance level. METHODS We hypothesized that ingestion of...

BACKGROUND Whilst exogenous carbohydrate oxidation (CHOEXO) is influenced by mono- and disaccharide combinations, debate exists whether such beverages enhance fluid delivery and exercise performance. Therefore, this study aimed to ascertain CHOEXO, fluid delivery and performance times of a commercially available maltodextrin/ fructose beverage in comparison to an isocaloric maltodextrin beverag...

To elucidate the mechanisms underlying the differences in adaptation of arm and leg muscles to sprint training, over a period of 11 days 16 untrained men performed six sessions of 4-6 × 30-s all-out sprints (SIT) with the legs and arms, separately, with a 1-h interval of recovery. Limb-specific VO2peak, sprint performance (two 30-s Wingate tests with 4-min recovery), muscle efficiency and time-...

Instability of a viscous incompressible flow in a channel with wavy walls is investigated theoretically, numerically and experimentally. Linear stability analysis shows that appropriately chosen wall waviness leads to flow destabilization at surprisingly low Reynolds numbers. The unstable mode of disturbances forms a vortex array, which travels downstream. The remarkable feature is that the mos...

No doubt dynamic hyperinflation and lack of oxidative capacity of skeletal muscles are important causes of exercise limitation in COPD. O’Donnell and Webb and Debigaré and Maltais will convince the reader of this by the elegant experiments they have performed. The thesis we will put forward is that during the natural history of COPD the primary factors leading to impairment of exercise performa...

The entropy budget of an atmosphere in radiativeonve tive equilibrium is analyzed here. The di erential heating of the atmosphere, resulting from surfa e heat uxes and tropospheri radiative ooling, orresponds to a net entropy sink. In statisti al equilibrium, this entropy sink is balan ed by the entropy produ tion due to various irreversible pro esses su h as fri tional dissipation, di usion of...