Sustainability and transparency in computational cognitive neuroscience

In this talk, I will discuss open science practices that aim to foster sustainability and transparency in computational cognitive neuroscience. First, I will review recent community efforts that aim to ease data sharing and analytical reproducibility, such as the reports of the OHBM Committees on Best Practice in Data Analysis and Sharing (COBIDAS) and the Brain Imaging Data Structures (BIDS). Second, I will discuss neuroimaging data sharing strategies in the light of ethical and legal constraints, such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Finally, I will discuss some common-sense guidelines for day-to-day research practice that aim to maximize the societal impact of computational cognitive neuroscience

Light Scattering in Transparent Glass Ceramics

Transparent glass ceramic materials, with microstructures comprised of dispersed nanocrystallites in a residual glass matrix, offer the prospect of nonlinear optical properties. However, good transparency requires low optical scattering and low atomic absorption. The attenuation of light due to scattering (turbidity) will depend upon the difference in refractive index of the two phases and the size and distribution of crystals in the glass. Here, we model the glass ceramic as a late-stage phase-separated structure, and compute scattering in this model. We find that the turbidity follows a k^8 R^7 relationship, where k is the wavevector of light in the glass ceramic and R is the average radius of the crystals in the glass.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

Balloon platform for extended-life astronomy research

A configuration has been developed for a long-life balloon platform to carry pointing telescopes weighing as much as 80 pounds (36 kg) to point at selected celestial targets. A platform of this configuration weighs about 375 pounds (170 kg) gross and can be suspended from a high altitude super pressure balloon for a lifetime of several months. The balloon platform contains a solar array and storage batteries for electrical power, up and down link communications equipment, and navigational and attitude control systems for orienting the scientific instrument. A biaxial controller maintains the telescope attitude in response to look-angle data stored in an on-board computer memory which is updated periodically by ground command. Gimbal angles are computed by using location data derived by an on-board navigational receiver

Development of a semipurified diet for the adult pocket mouse /Perognathus/

Semipurified diet effect on adult pocket mic

NSDL EduPak: An Open Source Education Repository Solution

4th International Conference on Open RepositoriesThis presentation was part of the session : Conference PostersEducational organizations and institutions focused on establishing specialized digital collections, conducting educational research, or providing students, teachers and instructors with discipline-oriented pedagogical products and tools require basic technology to begin building educational digital repositories. To help meet these needs, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) has announced the release of NSDL EduPak. Specifically designed for education, NSDL EduPak packages technology for digital storage, access, and workflow into a convenient bundle. This poster reviews three core EduPak components with examples of how they are used by education communities.National Science Foundatio

Growth laws and self-similar growth regimes of coarsening two-dimensional foams: Transition from dry to wet limits

We study the topology and geometry of two dimensional coarsening foams with arbitrary liquid fraction. To interpolate between the dry limit described by von Neumann's law, and the wet limit described by Marqusee equation, the relevant bubble characteristics are the Plateau border radius and a new variable, the effective number of sides. We propose an equation for the individual bubble growth rate as the weighted sum of the growth through bubble-bubble interfaces and through bubble-Plateau borders interfaces. The resulting prediction is successfully tested, without adjustable parameter, using extensive bidimensional Potts model simulations. Simulations also show that a selfsimilar growth regime is observed at any liquid fraction and determine how the average size growth exponent, side number distribution and relative size distribution interpolate between the extreme limits. Applications include concentrated emulsions, grains in polycrystals and other domains with coarsening driven by curvature

MS 197 Guide to Sharon Ostwald, RN, Papers, 1941-2014

The Sharon Ostwald, RN papers consists of 12 boxes equaling 12 cubic feet, and 3 plaques. The Sharon Ostwald, RN, collection includes photographs, school records from childhood through college, theses and dissertations, autobiographical information, awards, research and publications, procedural material, nursing garments and academic robes, media presentations on DVD, and interviews. See more at https://archives.library.tmc.edu/ms-197

Integrated research program in space nutrition Semiannual report, 1 Feb. - 31 Jul. 1970

Nutrition and breeding behavior of pocket mouse for space nutrition applicatio

Free-energy landscape of nucleation with an intermediate metastable phase studied using capillarity approximation

Capillarity approximation is used to study the free-energy landscape of nucleation when an intermediate metastable phase exists. The critical nucleus that corresponds to the saddle point of the free-energy landscape as well as the whole free-energy landscape can be studied using this capillarity approximation, and various scenarios of nucleation and growth can be elucidated. In this study we consider a model in which a stable solid phase nucleates within a metastable vapor phase when an intermediate metastable liquid phase exists. We predict that a composite critical nucleus that consists of a solid core and a liquid wetting layer as well as pure liquid and pure solid critical nuclei can exist depending not only on the supersaturation of the liquid phase relative to that of the vapor phase but also on the wetting behavior of the liquid surrounding the solid. The existence of liquid critical nucleus indicates that the phase transformation from metastable vapor to stable solid occurs via the intermediate metastable liquid phase, which is quite similar to the scenario of nucleation observed in proteins and colloidal systems. By studying the minimum-free-energy path on the free-energy landscape, we can study the evolution of the composition of solid and liquid within nuclei not limited to the critical nucleus.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, Journal of chemical physics to be publishe

The Two States in Plato\u27s Republic

Unlike the state of the Guardians which remains set up as a model in heaven, there is, in Plato\u27s view in the Republic, the faint hope that the state of the Philosopher may be possible