The aim of the study was to assess the impact of selection for residual feed intake (RFI) on the behavioural activity of lines divergently selected for RFI during seven generations. In all, six successive batches from the seventh generation of selection were raised in collective pens equipped with a single-place electronic feeder (SEF) from 10 weeks of age to 100 kg BW. Each batch included four...

Abstract The present paper proposes a new Strain Energy Function (SEF) for modeling​ incompressible orthotropic hyperelastic materials with specific application to the mechanical response of passive ventricular myocardium. In order build our SEF, we have followed classical strategy based on exponential functions, but chosen work polyconvex invariants instead standard ones. Actually, in context ...

BACKGROUND Saccadic eye movements are used to rapidly align the fovea with the image of objects of interest in peripheral vision. We have recently shown that in children there is a high preponderance of quick latency but poorly planned saccades that consistently fall short of the target goal. The characteristics of these multiple saccades are consistent with a lack of proper inhibitory control ...

In what frame of reference does the supplementary eye field (SEF) encode saccadic eye movements? In this study, the "saccade collision" test was used to determine whether a saccade electrically evoked in the monkey's SEF is programmed to reach an oculocentric goal or a nonoculocentric (e.g., head or body-centered) goal. If the eyes start moving just before or when an oculocentric goal is impose...

We studied four electrophysiological variables (bispectral index (BIS), 95% spectral edge frequency (SEF), median frequency (MF) and auditory evoked potential index (AEP index) in 10 patients during emergence from anaesthesia. We compared correlation of the signals with gradually decreasing calculated blood propofol concentrations, and evaluated the signal differences between preinduction and e...

Value-based decisions could rely either on the selection of desired economic goods or on the selection of the actions that will obtain the goods. We investigated this question by recording from the supplementary eye field (SEF) of monkeys during a gambling task that allowed us to distinguish chosen good from chosen action signals. Analysis of the individual neuron activity, as well as of the po...

In this issue of Neuron, describe the activity of single neurons in the SEF of monkeys, an oculomotor area of the frontal lobe, during the performance of stereotyped sequences of saccades. The monkey had to look at one of two identical stimuli, but the only way to choose the "correct" stimulus was to learn and remember its position in each presentation of the sequence. SEF neurons could do it.

We investigate the spectral relationships between electromagnetic (EM) enhancement and surface-enhanced resonant Raman scattering (SERRS) with fluorescence (SEF), which is observed as background emission of SERRS, in context light–matter interactions subradiant plasmons molecular excitons, using single silver nanoparticle dimers a model system. focus on lowest-energy (superradiant) plasmon far-...

The photochemically induced reaction of OCSe and F(2), isolated together in an Ar matrix at about 15 K, leads to formation of the hitherto-unknown fluorocarbonylselenyl fluoride FC(O)SeF. The reaction occurs via a van der Waals complex O=C=Se...F-F that favors very early formation of the anti conformer. The presence and subsequent decay of a band assigned to the F-F vibration correlated with pe...

Bupleuri Radix (Chai-hu in Chinese and Saiko in Japanese) is one of the most important traditional Chinese crude drugs for treating hepatitis malaria and intermittent fever. B. kaoi is one of the Bupleurum spp. families locally found in Taiwan. The effects of saponin-enriched fraction (SEF) from Bupleurum Kaoi in human non-small cell lung cancer A549 cells were investigated in this study. An en...