It has been suggested that the impaired natriuretic response of the clipped kidney in two-kidney, one clip hypertensive rats is related to downregulation of renal atrial natriuretic peptide receptors. To test this hypothesis, blood volume expansion and atrial peptide binding studies were performed in this model. Infusion of 1% and then 1.5% body weight donor blood (n = 6) caused a progressive i...

Contemporary audio declipping algorithms often ignore the possibility of the presence of additive channel noise. If and when noise is present, however, the efficacy of any declipping algorithm is critically dependent on the accuracy with which clipped portions of the signal can be detected. This paper introduces an effective technique for inferring the amplitude and percentile values of the cli...

The aim of this study was to investigate ANG II induced Ca signaling in freshly isolated afferent arterioles (AA) from two-kidney, one-clip hypertensive (2K1C) rats, which have an elevated plasma and renal angiotensin II (ANG II) level, and different perfusion pressure and vascular tone in the clipped and non-clipped kidney. The Ca responses in vessels from 2K1C and control rats were similar in...

Many continuous control tasks have bounded action spaces and clip out-of-bound actions before execution. Policy gradient methods often optimize policies as if actions were not clipped. We propose clipped action policy gradient (CAPG) as an alternative policy gradient estimator that exploits the knowledge of actions being clipped to reduce the variance in estimation. We prove that CAPG is unbias...

Although many ecologists have discounted the possibility of communication between plants, recent work demonstrates that wild tobacco plants with experimentally clipped sagebrush neighbors suffer less leaf herbivory than tobacco controls with unclipped neighbors. In this report, we examine the fitness consequences of resistance induced by eavesdropping. Annual tobacco plants with clipped sagebru...