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Characterization of spatio-temporal epidural event-related potentials for mouse models of psychiatric disorders.
Distinctive features in sensory event-related potentials (ERPs) are endophenotypic biomarkers of psychiatric disorders, widely studied using electroencephalographic (EEG) methods in humans and model animals. Despite the popularity and unique significance of the mouse as a model species in basic research, existing EEG methods applicable to mice are far less powerful than those available for humans and large animals. We developed a new method for multi-channel epidural ERP characterization in behaving mice with high precision, reliability and convenience and report an application to time-domain ERP feature characterization of the Sp4 hypomorphic mouse model for schizophrenia. Compared to previous methods, our spatio-temporal ERP measurement robustly improved the resolving power of key signatures characteristic of the disease model. The high performance and low cost of this technique makes it suitable for high-throughput behavioral and pharmacological studies
Casimir effect with a helix torus boundary condition
We use the generalized Chowla-Selberg formula to consider the Casimir effect
of a scalar field with a helix torus boundary condition in the flat
()-dimensional spacetime.
We obtain the exact results of the Casimir energy density and pressure for
any for both massless and massive scalar fields. The numerical calculation
indicates that once the topology of spacetime is fixed, the ratio of the sizes
of the helix will be a decisive factor. There is a critical value of
the ratio of the lengths at which the pressure vanishes. The pressure
changes from negative to positive as the ratio passes through
increasingly. In the massive case, we find the pressure tends to the result of
massless field when the mass approaches zero. Furthermore, there is another
critical ratio of the lengths and the pressure is
independent of the mass at in the D=3 case.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Mod. Phys. Lett.
Doping dependance of the spin resonance peak in bilayer high- superconductors
Motivated by a recent experiment on the bilayer
YCaBaCuO superconductor and based on a bilayer
model, we calculate the spin susceptibility at different doping densities in
the even and odd channels in a bilayer system. It is found that the intensity
of the resonance peak in the even channel is much weaker than that in the odd
one, with the resonance position being at a higher frequency. While this
difference decreases as the doping increases, and both the position and
amplitude of the resonance peaks in the two channels are very similar in the
deeply overdoped sample. Moreover, the resonance frequency in the odd channel
is found to be linear with the critical temperature , while the resonance
frequency increases as doping decreases in the even channel and tends to
saturate at the underdoped sample. We elaborate the results based on the Fermi
surface topology and the d-wave superconductivity.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Preventing eternality in phantom inflation
We have investigated the necessary conditions that prevent phantom inflation
from being eternal. Allowing additionally for a nonminimal coupling between the
phantom field and gravity, we present the slow-climb requirements, perform an
analysis of the fluctuations, and finally we extract the overall conditions
that are necessary in order to prevent eternality. Furthermore, we verify our
results by solving explicitly the cosmological equations in a simple example of
an exponential potential, formulating the classical motion plus the stochastic
effect of the fluctuations through Langevin equations. Our analysis shows that
phantom inflation can be finite without the need of additional exotic
mechanisms.Comment: 8 pages, V2 references added. V3 version published in Phys. Rev.
Latest Observational Constraints to the Ghost Dark Energy Model by Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach
Recently, the vacuum energy of the QCD ghost in a time-dependent background
is proposed as a kind of dark energy candidate to explain the acceleration of
the universe. In this model, the energy density of the dark energy is
proportional to the Hubble parameter , which is the Hawking temperature on
the Hubble horizon of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe. In this
paper, we perform a constraint on the ghost dark energy model with and without
bulk viscosity, by using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method and the
combined latest observational data from the type Ia supernova compilations
including Union2.1(580) and Union2(557), cosmic microwave background, baryon
acoustic oscillation, and the observational Hubble parameter data.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Magnetic transitions and magnetodielectric effect in the antiferromagnet SrNdFeO
We investigated the magnetic phase diagram of single crystals of
SrNdFeO by measuring the magnetic properties, the specific heat and the
dielectric permittivity. The system has two magnetically active ions, Fe
and Nd. The Fe spins are antiferromagnetically ordered below 360
K with the moments lying in the ab-plane, and undergo a reorientation
transition at about 35-37 K to an antiferromagnetic order with the moments
along the c-axis. A short-range, antiferromagnetic ordering of Nd along
the c-axis was attributed to the reorientation of Fe followed by a
long-range ordering at lower temperature [S. Oyama {\it et al.} J. Phys.:
Condens. Matter. {\bf 16}, 1823 (2004)]. At low temperatures and magnetic
fields above 8 T, the Nd moments are completely spin-polarized. The
dielectric permittivity also shows anomalies associated with spin configuration
changes, indicating that this compound has considerable coupling between spin
and lattice. A possible magnetic structure is proposed to explain the results.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures, submitted to PR
Geographical effects on epidemic spreading in scale-free networks
Many real networks are embedded in a metric space: the interactions among
individuals depend on their spatial distances and usually take place among
their nearest neighbors. In this paper, we introduce a modified
susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model to study geographical effects on
the spread of diseases by assuming that the probability of a healthy individual
infected by an infectious one is inversely proportional to the Euclidean
distance between them. It is found that geography plays a more important role
than hubs in disease spreading: the more geographically constrained the network
is, the more highly the epidemic prevails.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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