Abstract In the adult visual system, functionally distinct retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) within each eye project to discrete targets in the brain.In the ferret, RGCs encoding Lamps light increments or decrements project to independent On and Off sublaminae within each eye-specific layer of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN).Here we report

The article describes the features of linguistic and culturological commenting on lexical units related to the nominations of the traditional Russian costume.The focus is on the lexemes that denote the type of fabric.The research objective was to identify the cultural connotative component in the semantics of clothing nominations, associated with t

Although gender is often acknowledged as a determinant of health, measuring its components, other than biological sex, is uncommon.The Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) quantifies self-attribution of traits, indicative of gender roles.The BSRI has been used with participants across cultures and countries, but rarely Eggs in an older population in Brazi

One of the main challenges in computer vision is image classification.Nowadays the number of images increases exponentially every day; therefore, it is important to classify them in a reliable way.The conventional image classification pipeline usually consists on extracting local image features, encoding them as a feature vector and classify them u

Abstract Background Our purpose is to develop a testable biological hypothesis to explain the known increased risk of breast cancer associated with extensive percent mammographic density (PMD), and to reconcile the apparent paradox that although PMD decreases with increasing age, breast cancer incidence increases.Methods We used the Moolgavkar mode