Early experience of tactile stimulation influences organization of somatic sensory cortex

Visual experience is essential for the establishment of the cerebral cortical circuitry that allows normal binocular vision. For example, the pattern of right-eye, left-eye dominance columns is permanently altered by simply closing an eye of a young primate. A critical issue is whether environmental factors also influence the development of other cortical sensory areas. In the present experiments we manipulated the tactile experience of young rats by depriving them of the sensory information that is normally provided by their large facial whiskers. Electrophysiological analyses showed that simply trimming the whiskers from the day of birth results in pronounced abnormalities in the response properties of single neurons in the adult somatic sensory cortex. Thus functional plasticity in response to early experience appears to be a fundamental aspect of cortical development.     

宁夏南部黄土高原地区土地适宜性评价研究

根据联合国粮农组织（ＦＡＯ）土地评价纲要的分类体系，采用定性与定量相结合的方法，对宁夏南部黄土高原地区的土地进行了适宜性评价，并给出了该地区的土地适宜性能、质量等级、数量分布及亚级的数量和分布特征．     

基于SUMO软件的异构交通流仿真平台车辆模型开发与集成

采用实车参数和实际道路试验数据对基于SUMO软件的车辆模型进行优化,构建了具备自动驾驶全工况测试能力的高保真车辆运行特性模型,并与SUMO软件交通流仿真集成,形成了面向混合异构交通流的仿真平台。最后,通过典型交通运行场景对集成效果进行准确性和可用性验证。     

Odorous urine following asparagus ingestion in man

Summary The production of odorous urine after the ingestion of asparagus has been shown to occur in 43% of 800 volunteers investigated. This characteristics is reproducible over a 12-month-period and has been shown to remain with individuals for virtually a lifetime. Family studies suggest that the ability to produce the odorous urine is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.     

Predictable eye-head coordination during driving.

Large changes in the direction of gaze are made with a combination of fast saccadic eye movements and rather slower head movements. Since the first study on freely moving subjects, most authors have agreed that the head movement component of gaze is very variable, with a high 'volitional' component. But in some circumstances head and eye movements can be quite predictable, for example when a subject is asked to shift gaze as quickly as possible. Under these conditions, laboratory studies have shown that the eye and head motor-systems both receive gaze-change commands, although they execute them in rather different ways. Here I reconsider the way gaze direction is changed during free movement, but in the performance of a task where the subject is too busy to exert conscious control over head or eye movements. Using a new portable and inexpensive method for recording head and eye movements, I examine the oculomotor behaviour of car drivers, particularly during the large gaze changes made at road junctions. The results show that the pattern of eye and head movements is highly predictable, given only the sequence of gaze targets.     

Tumorigenic conversion of primary embryo fibroblasts requires at least two cooperating oncogenes

Transfection of embryo fibroblasts by a human ras oncogene does not convert them into tumour cells unless the fibroblasts are established and immortalized before transfection. The embryo fibroblasts become tumorigenic if a second oncogene such as a viral or cellular myc gene or the gene for the polyoma large-T antigen is introduced together with the ras gene.