Kilohertz electrical stimulation evokes robust cellular responses like conventional frequencies but distinct population dynamics by Cara R. Ravasio, Krishnakanth Kondabolu, Samuel Zhou, Eric Lowet, Erynne San Antonio, Rebecca A. Mount, Sukhneet K. Bhogal, Xue Han

“…At the network level, all frequencies lead to pronounced population suppression except 1 kHz in the cortex, which evokes balanced excitatory and inhibitory population effects. …”
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AC_ICAP: A Flexible High Speed ICAP Controller by Luis Andres Cardona, Carles Ferrer

“…It was implemented in both Virtex-5 and Kintex7 FPGAs. Results of reconfiguration time showed that run-time reconfiguration of single LUTs in Virtex-5 devices was performed in less than 5 μs which implies a speed-up of more than 380x compared to the Xilinx XPS_HWICAP controller.…”
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The Effect of Dantonic Pill on β-Catenin Expression in a Rat Model of Streptozotocin-Induced Early Stage of Diabetic Nephropathy by Zhou Shuhong, Lv Hongjun, Cui Bo, Xu Li, Shi Bingyin

“…Including an analysis of the general metabolic index and renal function, immunohistochemical staining and reverse transcription real-time PCR for β-catenin were performed in the renal cortex of the rat models every 4 weeks. After the treatments of DP and irbesartan, the albuminuria level, kidney weight/body weight, and thickness of the glomerular basement membrane were decreased, but the expression of β-catenin was not downregulated in the renal cortex. …”
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Rationale for the Use of Cord Blood in Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy by Izabela Zdolińska-Malinowska, Dariusz Boruczkowski, Dominika Hołowaty, Paweł Krajewski, Emilian Snarski

“…In several animal models of HIE, CB decreased oxidative stress, cell death markers, CD4+ T cell infiltration, and microglial activation; restored normal brain metabolic activity; promoted neurogenesis; improved myelination; and increased the proportion of mature oligodendrocytes, neuron numbers in the motor cortex and somatosensory cortex, and brain weight. …”
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Astrocyte and Neuronal Plasticity in the Somatosensory System by Robert E. Sims, John B. Butcher, H. Rheinallt Parri, Stanislaw Glazewski

“…Changing the whisker complement on a rodent’s snout can lead to two forms of experience-dependent plasticity (EDP) in the neurons of the barrel cortex, where whiskers are somatotopically represented. …”
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A two-stage contour optimization network for building outline extraction from remote sensing images by Youping Xie, Bin Feng, Longjie Luo, Bin Hu, Li Cao, Fan Lei

“…We directly extract and predict the location of each contour vertex of the building outline by designed model. …”
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Thalamic spindles and Up states coordinate cortical and hippocampal co-ripples in humans. by Charles W Dickey, Ilya A Verzhbinsky, Sophie Kajfez, Burke Q Rosen, Christopher E Gonzalez, Patrick Y Chauvel, Sydney S Cash, Sandipan Pati, Eric Halgren

“…While the thalamus synchronizes spindles and Up states in the cortex for memory, it is not known whether it may also organize co-ripples. …”
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Higher skeletal muscle mitochondrial oxidative capacity is associated with preserved brain structure up to over a decade by Qu Tian, Erin E. Greig, Christos Davatzikos, Bennett A. Landman, Susan M. Resnick, Luigi Ferrucci

“…Higher in vivo skeletal muscle oxidative capacity via MR spectroscopy (post-exercise recovery rate, kPCr) is associated with less ventricular enlargement and brain aging progression, and less atrophy in specific regions, notably primary sensorimotor cortex, temporal white and gray matter, thalamus, occipital areas, cingulate cortex, and cerebellum white matter. …”
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Formation of Residual Bubbles in Diesel Engine Nozzle and Their Influence on Initial Jet by Xiaonan Ni, Hua Wen

“…When the residual bubble was in the front of the orifice, the initial tip was formed at the front of jet, and then, it stretched into a thin ligament due to vortex ring motion around the jet.…”
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Efficient Continuation Methods for Computing Ground States of Quasi-2D Rotating Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates by B.-W. Jeng, P.-H. Su, M.-I. Char

“…Further, by adding the ratio of dipolar interaction strength to contact interaction strength as the second continuation parameter, we propose an efficient two-parameter continuation method which can effectively show the change of the ground-state vortex structures as the dipolar interaction strength gradually increases. …”
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Pinning in High-Tc Superconductors by Ernst Helmut Brandt

“…In highly anisotropic Bi- and Tl-based HTSC, thermal depinning occurs at rather low T, since short vortex segments ("pancake vortices" in the CuO layers) can depin individually with very small activation energy.…”
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Calculation of the criteria deviator and the vector of normal to the deviator section of the yield surface for the Murnaghan elastic-plastic material 1 by O. L. Shved

“…The criterion deviator is decomposed into the sum of three deviators as isotropic, anisotropy and the vortex. Anisotropy deviator is formed from anisotropic structures of the second and third degrees of the specific potential energy of elastic deformation. …”
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Performance Prediction of Cross-Flow Fans Using Mean Streamline Analysis by Jae-Won Kim, Eun Young Ahn, Hyoung Woo Oh

“…Comparison of overall performance predictions with test data of a cross-flow fan system with a simplified vortex wall scroll casing and with the published experimental characteristics for a cross-flow fan has been carried out to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed method. …”
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CFD Simulation of a New Dynamic-Static Stirred Model and Its Application in the Leaching Process of Chromite by Bin He, Lanfeng Guo, Renlong Liu, Facheng Qiu, Xuejun Quan

“…Meanwhile, the velocity distribution and trailing vortex near the blade are analyzed. Finally, the differences between traditional stirred blade and dynamic-static combined stirred blade in the oxidation leaching process of chromite are compared. …”
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RESEARCH ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PHYSICAL FIELD OF MOLTEN ZINC IN HOT DIP GALVANIZING POT by SUN ShouQun, WEI ZhongShuang, DAI XiChun, LU HuaYang

“…Through the standard k-ε turbulence model and the geometric model of galvanizing pot and molten zinc,the author finds out the distribution regularities of the physical fields（ such as speed,temperature and concentration field） and the laws of these physical quantities changing with time,and determines the distribution characteristics of the vortex. The theoretical calculations can be used to predict the distribution regularity of zinc dross and the danger zone of the dross removing operation,provide important theoretical basis for the design of dross removing robot,and ensure the quality of zinc coating and improve the efficiency of dross removing.…”
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Continuous Sliding Mode Control of Flow-Induced Vibrations by A. Baz

“…Vortex-induced vibrations of flexible circular cylinders and galloping oscillations of square prisms are controlled using a robust continuous sliding mode (CSM) controller. …”
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Towards analogue black hole merger by Solnyshkov, Dmitry, Septembre, Ismaël, Malpuech, Guillaume

“…We demonstrate that because of these losses, a single vortex becomes a center of a convergent flow, which allows describing it by an analogue Kerr black hole metric with a dynamically evolving origin. …”
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Analysis of Flow and Pressure Pulsation in Draft Tube of Francis Turbine under Different Guide Vane Opening by REN Haibo, YU Bo, WANG Kui, WANG Luobin

“…In order to explore the influence of the opening of the movable guide vane on the flow and pressure pulsation in the draft tube of the Francis turbine,the steady and unsteady numerical simulations were carried out by establishing a three-dimensional full-flow channel model of a Francis turbine in a power station in southwest China,and the flow characteristics and pressure pulsation of the draft tube of the Francis turbine under different guide vane opening of the rated head were studied.The results show that with the increase in guide vane opening,obvious alternating vortices appear in the straight cone section of the draft tube,which cause low-frequency pressure pulsation in the draft tube.The uniformity of pressure and velocity distribution in the draft tube gradually deteriorates,and the main frequency amplitude of pressure pulsation at the elbow section of the draft tube increases first and then decreases.The vortex zone of the draft tube causes the pressure pulsation of low frequency and high amplitude in the draft tube.…”
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Hydrodynamic Numerical Simulation of the Sipaikou Reach of the Yellow River in Ningxia Based on MIKE 3 by LIU Xin, LI Chunguang, LAN Bin, HUANG Chuanji, HE Jinsha

“…The calculation results show that, the elliptical vortex runningcounterclockwise with a long radius of about 128.824 m and a short radius of about 71.939 m wasformed at the contact position of the end of the spur dikes and river intake.After implementationof the “curve cut-off” project,there is a sudden change in the boundary conditions of theriverbed, resulting in very complicated flow motion in the study area. …”
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Protocol for a Phase 2 randomized controlled patient-assessor blinded study: efficacy and safety of combined cortical and cerebellar dual-target transcranial magnetic stimulation f... by Jing Xu, Na Cao, Yan Qu, Suhang Shang, Xincheng Liu, Xuexin Wang, Fangfang Hu, Xuerong Bai, Qiumin Qu, Meng Zhang, Hongmei Cao

“…Abnormal cerebello-thalamo-cortical (CTC) loop function are thought to be significant pathogenic causes of ET, with the cerebellum and cortex are common targets for ET treatment. In recent years, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been recognized as a promising brain research technique owing to its noninvasive nature and safety. …”
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