This paper is about two arrangements of hyperplanes. The first — the Shi arrangement — was introduced by Jian-Yi Shi to describe the Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in the affine Weyl group of type A. The second — the Ish arrangement — was recently defined by the first author who used the two arrangements together to give a new interpretation of the q, t-Catalan numbers of Garsia and Haiman. In the prese...

We used in vivo microdialysis to examine extracellular levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in the striatum and the lateral septum during the forced swimming test, (FST) a behavioral test conducted in rats that is commonly used to predict the effect of antidepressant drugs. The forced swimming test consisted of a 15-min pretest swim and a 5-min test swim ...

BACKGROUND Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI) was designed to assess sleep hygiene. Although the SHI has shown adequate psychometric properties in a nonclinical sample, it has not been validated in a sample with chronic pain. Also, its factor structure, measurement error, and incremental validity over and above other factors affecting sleep quality have not been investigated in a nonclinical sample. Thu...

Turtles with a complete transection of the spinal cord just posterior to the forelimb enlargement at the D2-D3 segmental border produced coordinated rhythmic hindlimb movements. Ipsilateral stimulation of cutaneous afferents in the midbody shell bridge evoked a rostral scratch. Electrical stimulation of the contralateral dorsolateral funiculus (DLF) at the anterior cut face of the D3 segment ac...

As low-income countries are initiating health insurance schemes, Ethiopia is also planning to move away from out-of-pocket private payments to health insurance. The success of such a policy depends on understanding and predicting preferences of potential enrolees. This is because a scarce health care budget forces providers and consumers to make trade-offs between potential benefits within a he...

Earlier reports suggested that injecting normal optic nerve into organotypic cerebellar cultures from three of the central nervous system hypomyelinated mutant mice resulted in striking local increases in myelination of mutant axons. It has been questioned whether this myelin was produced by the introduced normal glia because there was no "marker" by which the genotype of an individual myelin s...

Department of Mechatronics Engineering, National Changhua University of Education, No. 2, Shi-da Road, Changhua City 500, Taiwan, ROC Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, No. 2, Shi-da Road, Changhua City 500, Taiwan, ROC College of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, No. 2, Shi-da Road, Changhua City 500, ...

† The author is with Department of electronics engineering and computer Science at Fukuoka University , Fukuoka-shi, 814-0180, ‡ The author is with Institute of Systems & Information Technologies/KYUSHU, Fukuoka-shi, 814-0001 § The author is with Department of Informatics at Kyushu University, Fukuoka-shi, 816-8580 Quantitative Evaluation of State-Preserving Leakage Reduction Algorithm for L1 D...