NaCl crystal growth in gelatin

A drop of aqueous gelatin solution with a little NaCl salt is allowed to dry. Large crystals of salt form,, followed by multifractal dendrites in between.

Science > Chemistry > Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry

Keywords: Crystallization, complex fluids, dendritic growth, multi-fractal

Posted by: Sujata Tarafdar

Posted on: 14 Sep 2014

Participatory Research to foster Innovation in Agriculture - A capacity building event (Aug 2014)

Participatory agricultural research has emerged as an internationally acknowledged method to integrate farmers experience and skills into the innovation proc...

Science > Environmental Science > Agroecology

Keywords: Participatory Research

Posted by: Gurbir S. Bhullar

Posted on: 13 Sep 2014

Learning and Memory, Autoshaping test

autoshaping training & testing

Science > Neuroscience > Neural Circuits

Keywords: Autoshaping

Posted by: Alfredo Meneses

Posted on: 07 Sep 2014

Danko Nikolic speaks on ideasthesia

A talk given at the SoundThinking conference, Frankfurt, 2013.

Science > Psychology > Consciousness Research

Keywords: ideasthesia, synesthesia

Posted by: Danko Nikolic

Posted on: 03 Sep 2014

Computational Imaging - Peyman Milanfar at Technion Computer Engineering conference

Computational Imaging: Never Think You've Seen the Last of Anything Lecture by Prof. Peyman Milanfar of University of California Santa Cruz at the TCE confer...

Science

Keywords: computational photography, Image Enhancement, image processing, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted

Posted by: Peyman Milanfar

Posted on: 02 Sep 2014

Single Doppler pattern with frontal discontinuity

Made in Matlab and based on the Wood and Brown (1986) paper. I disabled the wind direction profile.

Science > Earth Science > Atmospheric Science

Keywords: doppler radar

Posted by: Raul Valenzuela

Posted on: 24 Aug 2014

Adolfo M. García - Neurocognitive determinants of performance variability among world-language users

This video features a lecture on the bilingual brain given by Dr. Adolfo M. García at the University of Science and Technology (Beijing, China), during the Journal of World Languages Launch Symposium.

Science > Neuroscience

Keywords: neurolinguistics, bilingualism, world languages

Posted by: Adolfo M. García

Posted on: 23 Aug 2014

Neurolinguistics according to Lamb: An interview by way of introduction

This video contains an interview granted by American neurolinguist Sydney Lamb to Dr. Adolfo M. García. It is intended to introduce the basics of neurolinguistics to lay audiences. The interview is...

Science > Neuroscience

Keywords: neurolinguistics, Relational Network Theory, lamb, Linguistic models

Posted by: Adolfo M. García

Posted on: 22 Aug 2014

Cell Press Neuron Video Abstract - Dr. Mirko Santello, Dr. Paola Bezzi and Prof. Andrea Volterra

This video shows how glial cells are controlling the signal strength of neurons by the release of glutamate but only under the presence of TNF alpha. The crucial role of TNF alpha is shown with...

Science > Neuroscience > Cellular Neuroscience Archive

Keywords: astrocyte, TNFalpha, Synaptic Transmission

Posted by: Mirko Santello

Posted on: 09 Aug 2014

Research for Lunch - D'méisproochegt Gehir/ The multilingual brain

Research for Lunch: 31/01/2014 The multilingual brain. Is a multilingual education beneficial for children? What are the optimal conditions under which a child can become perfectly multilingual?...

Science > Psychology > Cognition

Keywords: Multilingualism, cognitive control

Posted by: Pascale Engel de Abreu

Posted on: 04 Aug 2014

Molecular modeling of azole inside P450 enzyme

The system is composed of an azole antifungal, and cytochrom p450 enzyme. Iron atom is shown as pink ball, the ligand is colored, and surrounding residues from the receptor are shown in grey. The...

Science > Bioengineering and Biotechnology > Computational Genomics

Keywords: antifungals, Azoles, P450, enzyme, Ligand, ligands, YASARA, Molecular modeling, force field

Posted by: Yasser Gaber

Posted on: 04 Aug 2014

The Medical Doctor (MD) and the Sale representative

The Medical Doctor and the Sale Representative discuss drug X. Side effects and benefits in terms (or not as is with the sale rep.) of the number needed to treat or NNT.

Science > Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Posted by: Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson

Posted on: 03 Aug 2014

Independence assumption: Guilty or not guilty

Two students talking about the importance of knowing about the independence assumption. Sally Clark.

Science > Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Posted by: Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson

Posted on: 03 Aug 2014

The cult of significance testing (the p value)

Published on 2 Nov 2012 The detrimental effects of significance testing on scientific thought and practice continue unabated. The myths surrounding the discontinuation of significance testing are...

Science > Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Posted by: Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson

Posted on: 03 Aug 2014

Publish or Perish (the p value)

The chances of publishing a manuscript. Researcher and editor having a civil discussion. The p value might get a mention or two - or well heaps.

Science > Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Posted by: Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson

Posted on: 03 Aug 2014

An in vivo Assay for Monitoring Behavioral Output in the Stomatogastric Nervous System

An in vivo Assay for Simultaneous Monitoring of Neuronal Activity and Behavioral Output in the Stomatogastric Nervous System of Decapod Crustaceans SHORT ABSTRACT We present an experimental method...

Science > Neuroscience > Neural Circuits

Keywords: stomatogastric ganglion, Central pattern generators (CPG), sensorimotor integration, cancer borealis, crab, crustacean

Posted by: Wolfgang Stein

Posted on: 31 Jul 2014

Who you calling bird brained?

This short doco was made Mariya Semenova from the Science Communication Department at the University of Otago. For any of the papers mentioned, feel free to ...

Science > Psychology > Comparative Psychology

Posted by: Damian Scarf

Posted on: 28 Jul 2014

Penn State University, The Genome Sciences Institute at the Huck - Pushing the Frontier

Understanding the function and evolution of genomes and the implications on how organisms live in their environments and thrive or get sick, requires a combi...

Science > Genetics > Computational Genomics

Posted by: Marylyn D Ritchie

Posted on: 25 Jul 2014

What makes us musical animals

What makes us musical animals Lecture at TEDxAmsterdam 2011

Science > Neuroscience > Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience

Keywords: music cognition, musicality, Music Perception.

Posted by: Henkjan Honing

Posted on: 23 Jul 2014

Sildes da palestra Comportamento Motor nos Transtornos Psiquiátricos

Palestra apresentada no XV Congresso Mineiro de Psiquiatria. Belo Horizonte_ 27 a 29/06/2013.

Science

Posted by: Guilherme Menezes Lage

Posted on: 29 Jun 2014

Nadine Ravel LabEx CORTEX conference 21 11 12

Title: Detecting learning-induced modulation of oscillatory activities in a neural network: a new functional imaging?

Science > Neuroscience > Behavioral Neuroscience Archive

Keywords: learning and memory, oscillations

Posted by: Nadine RAVEL

Posted on: 25 Jun 2014

Dynamics of Olfactory Neural Codes

In our study we construct the olfactory neural network wiring from data and establish a dynamical model for olfactory neural codes. For more information please contact: Dr. Eli Shlizerman...

Science > Ecology and Evolution > Ecosystems Ecology

Keywords: Data-driven Modeling, data-driven decision making, dimensionality reduction, Olfactory Neural Coding, neuronal networks, insect olfaction, odor discrimination, networks, network dynamics, functional connectomics, olfactory dynamics, coherent structures

Posted by: Eli Shlizerman

Posted on: 20 Jun 2014

Why women don't drive Ferraris, and what men should do on first dates.

Steve talks with Prof Gad Saad, applied evolutionary psychologist and consumer scientist, about how evolution drives consumption behaviors, why women don't d...

Science > Psychology > Biological Psychology

Keywords: consumer behavior, Consumer Psychology, evolutionary psychology

Posted by: Gad Saad

Posted on: 18 Jun 2014

The Evolutionnary Roots of Human Decision Making: Dr Gad Saad at TEDxDawsonCollege

Gad Saad is Professor of Marketing at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), and the holder of the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Beha...

Science > Psychology > Biological Psychology

Keywords: psychology of decision making, evolutionary psychology, behavioral decision theory, heuristics and biases

Posted by: Gad Saad

Posted on: 18 Jun 2014

TEDxConcordia - Gad Saad - The Consuming Instinct

Marketing prof Gad Saad discusses the biological and evolutionary roots of our consuming instinct. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spiri...

Science > Psychology > Consumer Psychology

Keywords: consuming instinct, evolutionary psychology, Consumer Psychology, Evolution, Molecular, consumer behavior

Posted by: Gad Saad

Posted on: 18 Jun 2014