In the months after spinal cord injury, motoneurons develop large voltage-dependent persistent inward currents (PICs) that cause sustained reflexes and associated muscle spasms. These muscle spasms are triggered by any excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP) that is long enough to activate the PICs, which take > 100 ms to activate. The PICs are composed of a persistent sodium current (Na PIC) ...

We have reanalyzed data for the proposed moving group associated with β Pictoris in order to determine if the group (or part of it) is real, and, if so, to derive an improved age estimate for β Pic. By using new, more accurate proper motions from PPM and Hipparcos and a few new radial velocities, we conclude that on kinematic grounds most of the proposed members of the moving group are not, in ...

This paper investigates the scope of usage of fuzzy logic to beat the effect of multiple access interference (MAI) through block parallel interference cancellation (BPIC) in a synchronous Carrier Interferometry/MC-CDMA uplink system. The users are classified in different blocks like very strong, strong, weak and very weak based on fuzzy membership function derived from the magnitude of the rece...

36 The central hub of the cortical vestibular network in humans is likely localized in the region 37 of posterior lateral sulcus. An area characterized by responsiveness to visual motion has 38 previously been described at a similar location and named posterior insular cortex (PIC). 39 Currently it is not known whether PIC processes vestibular information as well. We localized 40 PIC using visu...

Polyriboinosinic-polyribocytoidylic acid (pIC), a synthetic dsRNA, acts as an adjuvant that boosts immune responses and protection. Intranasal (IN) administration of pIC has recently been used to adjuvant influenza virus vaccines; however, the effects of IN pIC administration on pulmonary T cell responses remain unclear. Here we show that a single IN administered dose of dsRNA into mice induced...

Building on prior research (Meyer, Foster, & Anderson, 2006), the present study examined the utility of three approaches to validate the Performance Improvement Characteristics (PIC; Hogan & Rybicki, 1998). The PIC is a job analysis instrument used to assess personal characteristics important to successful job performance. Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI; Hogan & Hogan, 1995) data in seven arc...

For a given family (Gi)i∈N of finitely generated abelian groups, we construct Dedekind domain D having the following properties. Pic(D)≅⨁i∈NGi. each i∈N, there exists submonoid Si⊆D• with Pic(DSi)≅Gi. Each class Pic(D) and all Pic(DSi) contains infinitely many prime ideals.

In this work, a microcontroller based circuit that performs the functions of an inverter /AVR hardware essentially consists of a PIC 16F877A microcontroller based circuit,. SG 3524 based modified sine-wave inverter driver circuit, a step-up. Modified sine wave inverter is designed to using pic microcontroller and push pull topology. output of control circuit for modified sine wave inverter The ...

A Particle-in-Cell (PIC) code, called Parsek2D, for the simulation of astrophysical and space plasmas is presented. Parsek2D enables simulations with large grid spacing and long time step, by means of implicit time differentiation and parallel computing. An implicit formulation of the PIC algorithm removes the severe numerical stability constraints of explicitly time-differenced PIC. Parallel s...