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Command Interneurons in the Crayfish Central Nervous System
The motor effects evoked by stimulation of each of eight command fibres in the circumoesophageal commissures of the crayfish are described. The fibres obtained appeared to have widespread connexions in all or most of the lower ganglia. For certain fibres the response was stronger on the homolateral side of the animal; for others it was symmetrical. The frequency of stimulation of a command fibre generally had a pronounced influence on the speed of the evoked response. In addition, segments of the total response could be elicited selectively by alteration of the frequency and duration of stimulation. Although the responses associated with most of the fibres were not sensitive to the fine temporal pattern of the applied stimulation, for one fibre the motor output depended clearly on the spacing of the stimulating pulses
CP Nonconservation in at the Tevatron
The reaction is found to be rather rich in exhibiting
several different types of CP asymmetries. The spin of the top quark plays an
important role. Asymmetries are related to form factors arising from radiative
corrections of the production vertex due to non-standard physics. As
illustrations, effects are studied in two Higgs Doublet Models and in
Supersymmetric Models; asymmetries up to a few percent may be possible.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures. Note: replaced due to minor problems that
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Improved Methods for Observing CP Violation in B+/- --> K+/- D0 and Measuring the CKM Phase gamma
Various methods are discussed for obtaining the CKM angle gamma through the
interference of the charged B-meson decay channels B- -> K- D0 and B- -> K-
D0-bar where the D0 and D0-bar decay to common final states. It is found that
choosing final states which are not CP eigenstates can lead to large direct CP
violation which can give significant bounds on gamma without any theoretical
assumptions. If two or more modes are studied, gamma may be extracted with a
precision on the order of +/-15 degrees given about 10^8 B-mesons. We also
discuss the case of three body decays of the D0 where additional information
may be obtained from the distribution of the D0 decay products and consider the
impact of D-D-bar oscillations.Comment: 51 pages 8 figures, typo in equation 33 correcte
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Constrained noninformative priors
The Jeffreys noninformative prior distribution for a single unknown parameter is the distribution corresponding to a uniform distribution in the transformed model where the unknown parameter is approximately a location parameter. To obtain a prior distribution with a specified mean but with diffusion reflecting great uncertainty, a natural generalization of the noninformative prior is the distribution corresponding to the constrained maximum entropy distribution in the transformed model. Examples are given
Ecosystem Food Web Lift-the-Flap Pages
In the lesson on which this practical article is based, third grade students constructed a âlift-the-flapâ page to explore food webs on the prairie. The moveable papercraft focused student attention on prairie animalsâ external structures and how the inferred functions of those structures could support further inferences about the animalsâ diets. In general, most students made simple causal connections between an animalâs observable characteristics and the food it would probably eat. Some students were also able to make multi-agent connections to develop a more complex mental model of a food web. Ultimately, the lift-the flap project was engaging to students and motivated them to focus their attention on the characteristics of animals of different ecosystems to infer their probable diets
Time dependent CP asymmetry in decay to probe the origin of CP violation
Since the CP violation in the system has been investigated up to now only
through processes related to the -- mixing, urgently required is
new way of study for the CP violation and establishing its origin in the
system independent of the mixing process. In this work, we explore the
exclusive decay to obtain the time-dependent CP
asymmetry in decay process in the standard model and the
supersymmetric model. We find that the complex RL and RR mass insertion to the
squark sector in the MSSM can lead to a large CP asymmetry in
decay through the gluino-squark diagrams, which is not predicted in the
Standard Model induced by the -- mixing.Comment: 10 pages, 4 eps figure
Texture of Yukawa coupling matrices in general two-Higgs-doublet model
We discuss possible parallel textures of the Yukawa coupling matrices in the
generaltwo-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM). In those textures the flavor changing
neutral currentsare naturally suppressed. Motivated by a phenomenologically
successful texturewith four texture zeros in the standard model, we propose a
predictive ansatz for the Yukawa coupling matrices with the same texture in the
general 2HDM. Compared with the six texture-zero based ansatz proposed by Cheng
and Sher, it is in a better agreement with the data of quark mixings and CP
violation. The four texture-zero based ansatz predicts a different hierarchy in
the Yukawa coupling matrix elements. As a consequence, in the lepton sector,
the related Yukawa couplings are less constrained by the experimental upper
bound of , which allows significantly larger predictions for
other processes. The contributions from neutral scalar interactions to the
lepton number violation decay modes are
calculated in both ansatz. It is shown that the predictions from the four
texture-zero based ansatz could be two order of magnitude greater than that
from the six texture-zero based one. The branching ratio of and
can reach and 1.3\tiems 10^{-10}
respectively. The predicted ratio of is also
larger and almost parameter independent. Those differences make the two ansatz
to be easily distinguished by the future experiments.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
Importance of resource selection and social behavior to partitioning of hostile space by sympatric canids
Investigations into mechanisms of resource partitioning are particularly suited to systems where nascent interactive behaviors are observable. Wolf (Canis lupus) recolonization of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem provided such a system, and we were able to identify behaviors influencing the partitioning of resources by coyotes (Canis latrans) and wolves. We observed coyoteâwolf interactions immediately after wolf recolonization, when reemergent behaviors mediating the outcome of competitive interactions were detectable and mechanisms of spatial avoidance were identifiable. Although coyotes used the same space as wolves, they likely minimized risk of encounter by making adaptive changes in resource selection based on perception of wolf activity and potential scavenging opportunities. When exploiting carrion subsidies (i.e., wolf-killed ungulates), coyotes relied on social behaviors (i.e., numerical advantage in concert with heightened aggression) to mitigate escalating risk from wolves and increase resource-holding potential. By adapting behaviors to fluctuating risk, coyotes might reduce the amplitude of competitive asymmetries. We concluded coyotes do not perceive wolves as a threat requiring generalized spatial avoidance. Rather, the threat of aggressive interactions with wolves is spatially discrete and primarily contained to areas adjacent to carrion resources
Lepton Flavor Violation in the Two Higgs Doublet Model type III
We consider the Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) of type III which leads to
Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) at tree level in the leptonic sector.
In the framework of this model we can have, in principle, two situations: the
case (a) when both doublets acquire a vacuum expectation value different from
zero and the case (b) when only one of them is not zero. In addition, we show
that we can make two types of rotations for the flavor mixing matrices which
generates four types of lagrangians, with the rotation of type I we recover the
case (b) from the case (a) in the limit , and with the
rotation of type II we obtain the case (b) from (a) in the limit Moreover, two of the four possible lagrangians correspond to the models
of types I and II plus Flavor Changing (FC) interactions. The analitical
expressions of the partial lepton number violating widths and are derived for the cases (a) and (b) and both
types of rotations.In all cases these widths go asymptotically to zero in
the decoupling limit for all Higgses. We present from our analysis upper bounds
for the flavour changing transition and we show that such bounds
are sensitive to the VEV structure and the type of rotation utilized.Comment: 7 pages RevTeX4, 4 figures postscript, new section added and some new
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Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors in Neuroscience Research
Adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) are increasingly useful preclinical tools in neuroscience research studies for interrogating cellular and neurocircuit functions and mapping brain connectivity. Clinically, AAVs are showing increasing promise as viable candidates for treating multiple neurological diseases. Here, we briefly review the utility of AAVs in mapping neurocircuits, manipulating neuronal function and gene expression, and activity labeling in preclinical research studies as well as AAV-based gene therapies for diseases of the nervous system. This review highlights the vast potential that AAVs have for transformative research and therapeutics in the neurosciences
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