We’re back in the Milgrom-Weber affiliated interdependent values model. Today, we’re going to compare first-price to ascending auctions. Milgrom and Weber spend a bunch of time and notation demonstrating the existence of a symmetric equilibrium in the first-price auction. For our purposes, we’re going to just accept that it exists, since we don’t need a closed-form expression for bidding functi...

The cells of the intestinal epithelium provide a selectively permeable barrier between the external environment and internal tissues. The integrity of this barrier is maintained by tight junctions, specialised cell-cell contacts that permit the absorption of water and nutrients while excluding microbes, toxins and dietary antigens. Impairment of intestinal barrier function contributes to multip...

More than a decade of research has demonstrated that faces evoke prioritized processing in a core face network of three brain regions. However, whether these regions prioritize the detection of global facial form (shared by humans and mannequins) or the detection of life in a face has remained unclear. Here, we dissociate form-based and animacy-based encoding of faces by using animate and inani...

In the rabbit epicardial coronary artery, 8-tert-butyl-6,7-dihydropyrolo[3,2-e]5-methylpyrazolo [1,5-a]pyrimidine-3-carbonitrile (LP-805, greater than 0.1 microM) hyperpolarized the muscle membrane in both proximal (diameter, 1-1.2 mm) and distal (diameter, 0.1-0.2 mm) regions of intact (+E) tissue, in which endothelium is present, and endothelium-denuded (-E) tissue. LP-805-induced hyperpolari...

Daniel J. Blumenthal Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Tel: 805-893-4168 Fax: 805-893-5705 Email: [email protected]

Age (n = 805) 56.6 ± 16.5 59.3 ± 17.8 0.075 Gender (n = 805) 0.574 Male 408 (61.8%) 86 (59.3%) Colour/race (n = 805) 0.798 White 407 (61.7%) 88 (60.7%) Pardum 129 (19.1%) 30 (20.7%) Black 106 (16.1%) 21 (14.5%) Yellow 18 (2.7%) 6 (4.1%) Type of dialysis (n = 349) 0.748 Haemodialysis 239 (36.2%) 56 (38.6%) Peritoneal dialysis 46 (7.0%) 8 (5.5%) Immunosuppressive therapy (n = 803) 0.952 Yes 31 (4...

In the rabbit epicardial coronary artery, 8-tert-butyl-6,7-dihydropyrolo[3,2-e]5-methylpyrazolo [1,5-aJpyrimidine-3-carbonitrile (LP-805, >0.1 ,uM) hyperpolarized the muscle membrane in both proximal (diameter, 1-1.2 mm) and distal (diameter, 0.1-0.2 mm) regions of intact (+E) tissue, in which endothelium is present, and endothelium-denuded (-E) tissue. LP-805-induced hyperpolarization was inhi...

We use Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) data to assess retinal blood oxygen saturation. Three-dimensional disk-centered retinal tissue volumes were assessed in 17 normal healthy subjects. After removing DC and low-frequency a-scan components, an OCT fundus image was created by integrating total reflectance into a single reflectance value. Thirty fringe patterns were sampled; 10...