Prolonged early-life seizures are associated with disruptions of affective and cognitive function. Postictal disturbances, temporary functional deficits that persist for hours to days after seizures, have not yet been thoroughly characterized. Here, we used kainic acid (KA) to induce status epilepticus (SE) in immature rats at three developmental stages (postnatal day (P) 15, 21, or 30) and sub...

The vestibular system contributes to the performance of various spatial memory tasks, but few studies have attempted to disambiguate the roles of the semicircular canals and otolith organs in this performance. This study tested the otolithic contribution to spatial working and reference memory by evaluating the performance of otoconia-deficient tilted mice on a radial arm maze and a Barnes maze...

*Dept of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Dovehouse Street, London, UK. **Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Correspondence. P.J. Barnes, Dept of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK. Received: April 3 1997; accepted for publication April 25 1997 This document was prepared follo...

We present approximate data structures with synchronization-free construction algorithms. The data races present in these algorithms may cause them to drop inserted or appended elements. Nevertheless, the algorithms 1) do not crash and 2) may produce a data structure that is accurate enough for its clients to use successfully. We advocate an approach in which the approximate data structures are...

1. Reference and definition The formulation of the “divided cell” algorithm as an approach to the study of the values of a function f (x, y) that is a product of two inhomogeneous linear forms on a lattice in R2 appears in E. S. Barnes, “The inhomogeneous minima of binary quadratic forms (IV)”, Acta Math. 92 (1954) 235–264. Although this is the fourth paper in a series, the first three were wri...

The industrial production of alkyl tin derivatives has increased rapidly in recent years, but little is known about the hazards to man which may exist in the handling of these substances. Interest in the matter has been sharpened by the catastrophic results of a therapeutic trial of one of the group, diethyl tin di-iodide, in the treatment of furunculosis. The compound was given orally and caus...

In this paper we introduce Baxter integral Q-operators for finite-dimensional Lie algebras gll+1 and so2l+1. Whittaker functions corresponding to these algebras are eigenfunctions of the Q-operators with the eigenvalues expressed in terms of Gammafunctions. The appearance of the Gamma-functions is one of the manifestations of an interesting connection between Mellin-Barnes and Givental integral...

We suggest a new strategy for proving large N duality by interpreting GromovWitten, Donaldson-Thomas and Chern-Simons invariants of a Calabi-Yau threefold as different characterizations of the same holomorphic function. For the resolved conifold this function turns out to be the quantum Barnes function, a natural qdeformation of the classical one that in its turn generalizes Euler’s gamma funct...

Salvatore Pincherle the pioneer of the Mellin-Barnes integrals Francesco MAINARDI, Gianni PAGNINI (1) Department of Physics, University of Bologna, and INFN, Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna, Italy Corresponding Author; E-mail: [email protected] ENEA: Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment Via Martiri di Monte Sole 4, I-40129 Bologna, Italy E-mail: gianni.pagni...

The decomposed pyramid vector quantization (DPVQ) by using 16-dimensional Barnes-Wall lattice is presented and also its fast algorithm. DPVQ is motivated by a geometric structure of the memoryless Laplacian source of vectors. Its quantization vectors are the points that lie on the surface of 16-dimensional pyramid and also are points of BarnesWall lattice, which is an optimum one for this dimen...