Maintenance of memory in a cortical network model 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Synaptic plasticity experiments: hippocampus and neocortex Initial experiments demonstrating synaptic plasticity were performed by Bliss and Lømo (1973), in which they demonstrated, for the first time, the ability to change the excitatory postsynaptic...

Individual effect of post-activation potentiation after a re-warm-up

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Freestyle Swimming (Front-Crawl) In international competition, swimming races are held in each of the competitive strokes including freestyle (usually front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Freestyle is the most economical of the strokes,...

The Cushioning Effect of Immigrant Mobility: Evidence from the Great Recession in Spain 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » International Migration: What is all the fuss about? Migration from places of economic disparity and the lack of opportunity is fundamental to our species existence. Dating back to the exodus of Homo sapiens...

Measuring Historical Over-representation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Malawian Context Background on Educational Inequalities Malawi is a landlocked country located in the South-East of Sub-Saharan Africa. It was a former British colony before achieving independence in 1964. Leadership was then...

Collective excitation in a large ensemble of cold atoms 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Collective excitation in a large ensemble of cold atoms Developing coherent protocols that allow storage and manipulation of quantum states carried by light is crucial for quantum information science, including quantum networks and...

Improving RNNs Training through Global-Local Losses 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Improved recurrent neural network training While we dedicated Part I to introducing new optimization algorithms, in Part II we focus on novel methods for complex tasks. The excellent performance obtained on simple problems...

A tensorial formulation for hyper-graph matching 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Building a category-level object detector Suppose we could store all possible images of a given category (for instance, cars). Let us call these images the prototypes. Once a test image is given, we...

RUBIDIUM CONDENSATE AND RAMAN BEAMS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » An Analogy with Optical Lasers In the very general picture depicted in figure 1.3, the atom laser can be thought of as an analog to the well-known optical laser. The following points briefly...

Water suitability for domestic use and irrigation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Climate and hydrology The regional climate in the central Haouz is semiarid with a high spatial and temporal heterogeneity. In the plain, the semiarid climate is characterized by low and heterogenous rainfall, with...

Computational Neuroscience, Statistical Mechanics and the hippocampus 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Statistical Mechanics Approach At this point, the reader may wonder why on earth this thesis is labeled \theoretical physics". Statistical mechanics is indeed a branch of physics, but the reason for this...