Primary visual cortex (V1) provides crucial insights into the selectivity and emergence of specific output features such as orientation tuning. Tuning and selectivity of cortical neurons in mouse visual cortex is not equivocally resolved so far. While many in-vivo experimental studies found inhibitory neurons of all subtypes to be broadly tuned for orientation other studies report inhibitory ne...

This chapter provides a general overview of the Barents Sea demersal trawl fishery. First, it reviews historical catch levels and current biomass status of four commercially important demersal species (cod, haddock, Greenland halibut, and redfish) and includes an overview of their management plan that has been carried out by the Joint Norwegian–Russian commission. Then, it presents the evolutio...

We studied orientation selectivity in V1 of alert monkeys and its relationship to other physiological parameters and to anatomical organization. Single neurons were stimulated with drifting bars or with sinusoidal gratings while compensating for eye position. Orientation selectivity based on spike counts was quantified by circular variance and by the bandwidth of the orientation tuning curve. T...

Recording of sensory information from afferent fibers can be used as feedback for the closed-loop control of neural prostheses. Clinical applications suggest that recording selectively from various nerve fascicles is important. Current nerve cuff electrodes are generally circular in shape and use a tripolar recording configuration. Preliminary experiments suggest that slowly changing the shape ...

The effects of operating parameters such as feed temperature and permeate-side pressure on the performance of a commercial PVA membrane in the dehydration of toluene by a pervaporation (PV) membrane system is studied in the present work. The results obtained indicate that increasing temperature in the range of 40 to 70 °C and reducing permeate pressure in the range of 1 to 10 mmHg increase memb...

Manganese oxide catalyst promoted with sodium and supported on silica exhibits fairly good activity and selectivity towards the synthesis of ethylene from methane at the optimum operating conditions. Methane and oxygen were fed into a tubular fixed bed reactor packed with catalyst under atmospheric pressure. The effects of temperature, residence time and feed composition on conversion, selectiv...

In Fukushima's neocognitron, the S-cell selectivity parameters have a profound eeect on the classiication performance of the network. To date, no one has presented a successful approach to determining these parameters so as to maximize the neocognitron's correct recognition rate. This paper presents two new algorithms for adjusting S-cell selectivities. The rst method | Sub-Optimal Feature Trai...

the complexation reactions between mg2+, ca2+, sr2+ and ba2+ metal cations with 15-crown-5 (15c5) were studied in acetonitrile (an)-methanol (meoh) binary mixtures at different temperatures using conductometric method. 15c54 forms 1:1 complexes with mg2+, ca2+ and sr2+ cations in solutions. the ma2+ cation forms a 2:1 complex (ratio of lighand to cation) in solutions. a linear relation was obse...

fischer-tropsch synthesis is a promising route for production of light olefins via co hydrogenation over transition metals. co is one of the most active metals for fischer-tropsch synthesis. some different variables such as preparation parameters and operational factors can strongly affect the selectivity of fischer-tropsch synthesis toward the special products. in the case of preparation varia...