1 Olfactory coding: Unusual conductances contribute to sparse neural 2 representations. 3 4 Focus on “Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Inhibitory Synaptic Input of 5 Kenyon Cells as Mechanisms for Sparse Coding?” 6 7 8 Rose C. Ong and Mark Stopfer 9 10 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, US National Institutes 11 of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and Department of Biochemist...

China has been alarmed by its rapid rise in health care expenditures of social health insurance schemes. The health care expenditure per person for the 155 million people covered by the Chinese social insurance plans has been rising at an accelerative rate. We analyze why health care cost in China has risen, and show how other nations may benefit from this experience. The annual rate of increas...

abstract in this research sand drifts potential using sand rose graph software and fryberger velocity classes’ method investigated. thus wind data between 1985 and 2005 from meteorological stations of jask and kerman were analyzed to examine sand drift potential. sand drift potential amount of kerman station was 412.6 using sand rose graph and 401.09 using fryberger,s method. sand drift potenti...

The extremely high exposure levels evaluated in prior investigations relating elevated levels of drinking water arsenic and hypertension prevalence make extrapolation to potential vascular effects at lower exposure levels very difficult. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 8790 women who had recently been pregnant in an area of Inner Mongolia, China known to have a gradient of drinking wat...

Myanmar’s external economic relations during the 2010s can be broadly characterized as processes of re-integration with outside world, thus paying way for diversification away from dependence on its preeminent neighbor, China. A close examination, however, reveals a complex set dynamics in Myanmar–China relations, particularly trade sector. sectoral value chain analysis shows that China rose ra...

Virtually all Internet scams make use of domain name resolution as a critical part of their execution (e.g., resolving a spam-advertised URL to its Web site). Consequently, defenders have initiated a range of efforts to intervene within the DNS ecosystem to block such activity (e.g., by blacklisting “known bad” domain names at the client). Recently, there has been a push for domain registrars t...

China presents several macroeconomic patterns that appear inconsistent with standard stylized facts about economic development and hence inconsistent with the standard neoclassical growth model. We show that Chinese macroeconomic patterns instead appear consistent with an environment where state control of factor markets can promote aggressive output goals. We consider the micro-institutional f...