Multisensory enhancement (MSE) is the augmentation of the response to sensory stimulation of one modality by stimulation of a different modality. It has been described for multisensory neurons in the deep superior colliculus (DSC) of mammals, which function to detect, and direct orienting movements toward, the sources of stimulation (targets). MSE would seem to improve the ability of DSC neuron...

We study the origin of the diffuse stellar component (DSC) in 117 galaxy clusters extracted from a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We identify all galaxies present in the simulated clusters at 17 output redshifts, starting with z = 3.5, and then build the family trees for all the z = 0 cluster galaxies. The most massive cluster galaxies show complex family trees, resembling the merger t...

A major deficit in suitable dyes is stifling progress in the dye-sensitised solar cell (DSC) industry. Materials discovery strategies have afforded numerous new dyes; yet, corresponding solution-based DSC device performance has little improved upon 11% efficiency, achieved using the N719 dye over two decades ago. Research on these dyes has nevertheless revealed relationships between the molecul...

n important consideration during the engineering process of an antibody is both the inherent conformational stability of the antibody as well as long-term stability. Understanding these parameters and what trends they follow will be critical throughout the biotherapeutic development. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) is a potent tool in probing these qualities. As a stability indicating a...

A thorough understanding of starch gelatinization is extremely important for precise control of starch functional properties for food processing and human nutrition. Here we reveal the molecular mechanism of starch gelatinization by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in conjunction with a protocol using the rapid viscosity analyzer (RVA) to generate material for analysis under conditions t...

BACKGROUND Gliomas constitute over 90% of primary brain tumors. Accurate identification of glioma recurrence and treatment effects is important, as it can help determine whether to continue with standard adjuvant chemotherapy or to switch to a second-line therapy for recurrence. Our purpose is to compare three dimensional pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (3D-pcASL) technique and dynamic...

We previously demonstrated that human decidual stromal cells (DSC), the main cellular component of the decidua, are similar in antigen phenotype and structure to myofibroblasts, cells with contractile activity. In this work we isolated and maintained DSC in fibroblast medium, in which these cells show a stable phenotype similar to that of DSC in vivo. Flow cytometric observations showed that mo...

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) and dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are widely used to image cerebral blood flow (CBF) in stroke. This study examined how changes in tissue spin-lattice relaxation-time constant (T(1)), blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, and transit time affect CBF quantification by ASL and DSC in postischemic hyperperfusion in the same an...

This paper proposes a Dempster -Shafer theory based combining scheme for single-input single-output (SISO) systems with hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ), referred to as DSC, in which two methods for soft information calculations are developed for equiprobable (EP) and non-equiprobable (NEP) sources, respectively. One is based on the distance from the received signal to the decisio...

Supervisors: Dr. László Hunyady, DSc, professor Dr. András Balla, PhD, associate professor Official reviewers: Dr. Károly Liliom, PhD, senior research fellow Dr. Attila Reményi, PhD , senior research fellow Head of the Final Examination Committee: Dr. Zsuzsanna Fürst, DSc, professor emerita Members of the Final Examination Committee: Dr. Szabolcs Sipeki, PhD, senior lecturer Dr. Beáta Sperlágh,...