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Isolate or combine: population receptive field size in (un)crowding

Michael Herzog, Bogdan Draganski, Ayberk Ozkirli, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska

Crowding, the deterioration of object recognition in clutter, is traditionally explained with models that are hierarchical, feedforward and local. These models suggest that a “bottleneck” at the earliest stages of visual processing leads to an irretrievabl ...

2021

Fatal attraction-The role of hypoxia when alpha-synuclein gets intimate with mitochondria

Hilal Lashuel, Grégoire Millet, Johannes Burtscher, Muhammed Muazzam Kamil Syed

Alpha-synuclein aggregation and mitochondrial dysfunction are main pathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD) and several other neurodegenerative diseases, collectively known as synucleinopathies. However, increasing evidence suggests that they may ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2021

The effect of spokesperson attribution on public health message sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel

It is urgent to understand how to effectively communicate public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous work has focused on how to formulate messages in terms of style and content, rather than on who should send them. In particular, little ...

2021

Graphical details: the secret life of Christopher Wren's drawing of the weather clock

Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

Historians have unanimously credited Christopher Wren with having constructed a weather clock (a self-registering instrument) in the early 1660s. This conclusion was based on the account of the French diplomat Balthasar de Monconys, which included a sketch ...

2021

On the necessity of including vapor kinetics to model the specific surface area evolution in snow

Michael Lehning, Henning Löwe

Vapor fluxes in snow are often inferred from the temperature field by assuming vapor concentrations in local thermodynamic equilibrium with the temperature. Here we give evidence that, at the pore scale, this picture is in clear contradiction with the obse ...

2021

Brain plasticity dynamics during tactile Braille learning in sighted subjects: Multi-contrast MRI approach

Bogdan Draganski

A growing body of empirical evidence supports the notion of diverse neurobiological processes underlying learning-induced plasticity changes in the human brain. There are still open questions about how brain plasticity depends on cognitive task complexity, ...

2021

Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?

Hilal Lashuel, Mohamed Bilal Fares, Somanath Jagannath

Lewy bodies (LBs) are α-synuclein (α-syn)-rich intracellular inclusions that are an important pathological hallmark of Parkinson disease and several other neurodegenerative diseases. Increasing evidence suggests that the aggregation of α-syn has a central ...

2021

Self-consistent Hubbard parameters from density-functional perturbation theory in the ultrasoft and projector-augmented wave formulations

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni

The self-consistent evaluation of Hubbard parameters using linear-response theory is crucial for quantitatively predictive calculations based on Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory. Here, we extend a recently introduced approach based on density-fu ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

A novel fatigue life prediction methodology based on energy dissipation in viscoelastic materials

Thomas Keller, Ghazaleh Eslami

This paper introduces a new fatigue life prediction methodology for viscoelastic materials in the tension-tension fatigue loading region. The model was established based on the total amount of energy dissipated during fatigue loading, and offers two main a ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

The formation of Coasean institutions to provide university knowledge for innovation: a case study and econometric evidence for Switzerland

Dominique Foray

"Coasean" institutions are an alternative institutional form that provides a solution to some market and coordination failures. As such they can weaken considerably the case for public subsidies in a vast range of context. They are "market-based" and an in ...

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