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Deep Material Network (DMN) has recently emerged as a data-driven surrogate model for heterogeneous materials. Given a particular microstructural morphology, the effective linear and nonlinear behaviors can be successfully approximated by…
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This paper presents the results of our recent work on studying the effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and medication on the dynamics of brain local field potential (LFP) signals used for behavior analysis of patients with Parkinson s…
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Segmenting the fine structure of the mouse brain on magnetic resonance (MR) images is critical for delineating morphological regions, analyzing brain function, and understanding their relationships. Compared to a single MRI modality,…
We present a theoretical study of the orbital magnetoresistance in a unixial anisotropic metal within the relaxation-time approximation. The appearance of a new dimensionless scale, delta=4t_perp/epsilon_F, allows the possibility of a new…
We enlarge our results from the study of the hopping mechanism of the oscillation excitation transport in 1D model of one biology-like macromolecular chain to the case of a system composed from two 1D parallel macromolecular chains with…
Several works reported increased differentiation of neuronal cells grown on graphene; however, the molecular mechanism driving axon elongation on this material has remained elusive. Here, we study the axonal transport of nerve growth factor…
We describe a chain of unidirectionally coupled adaptive excitable elements slowly driven by a stochastic process from one end and open at the other end, as a minimal toy model of unresolved irreducible uncertainty in a system performing…