Interneurons of the hippocampal formation are traditionally identified electrophysiologically as those cells that fire trains of weakly accommodating action potentials in response to depolarizing current injection. We studied the firing properties of nonpyramidal neurons in the five substrata of the CA3b region of hippocampus. With the use of whole cell recording methods we found that nonpyrami...

of baseline measurements, a 7-day control diet, pre HFD measurements, a 5-day HFD period, and post HFD measurements. Studies 1 and 2 differed in that study 1 included an IVGTT on day 8 and 14, whereas study 2 included a high fat meal challenge on day 8 and 14. Intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT). All volunteers were fasted and placed in the supine position prior to the IVGTT, before high...

A 76-year-old woman presented with life-limiting claudication in the left leg. Ankle brachial index (ABI) was 1.07/0.63 (right/left). Duplex ultrasound showed a decreased flow pattern of the left popliteal artery with normal flow pattern in the common femoral artery (CFA), and stenosis or occlusion of the left SFA was strongly suspected. Angiography 1 month later showed severe stenosis in the o...

The relationship of nanocomposite dispersion to dispersion techniques and other processing parameters was studied. Examining all permutations of the various factors in the laboratory is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose to map a correlation between inputs and output via a self-adaptive scattered data approximation method. The proposed greedy algorithm, sequential function approximat...

Frontier techniques, including data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), have been used to measure health care provider efficiency in hundreds of published studies. Although these methods have the potential to be useful to decision makers, their utility is limited by both methodological questions concerning their application, as well as some disconnect between the ...

Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) is a subspace learning method inspired by the human visual system, however, it is seldom seen in computer vision. Motivated by its application for unsupervised activity analysis, we develop SFA’s first implementation of online temporal video segmentation to detect episodes of motion changes. We utilize a domainspecific indefinite kernel which takes the data represent...

Obesity and saturated fatty acid (SFA) treatment are both associated with skeletal muscle insulin resistance (IR) and increased macrophage infiltration. However, the relative effects of SFA and unsaturated fatty acid (UFA)-activated macrophages on muscle are unknown. Here, macrophages were treated with palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid or both and the effects of the conditioned medium (CM) on C2C...

It is widely believed that sensory and motor processing in the brain is based on simple computational primitives rooted in cellular and synaptic physiology. However, many gaps remain in our understanding of the connections between neural computations and biophysical properties of neurons. Here, we show that synaptic spike-time-dependent plasticity (STDP) combined with spike-frequency adaptation...

This paper uses both the non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the econometric method of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to study the production technology and cost efficiency of the U.S. dental care industry using practice level data. The American Dental Association (ADA) 2006 survey data for a number of general dental practices in Colorado are used for the empirical ...