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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Huxley"”.
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Aldous Huxley : a study in a changing philosophy
… besides being art, "is also philosophy," Aldous Huxley says in Vulgarity in Literature. Throughout the years in which he has been writing, Huxley has never lost sight of this dictum. His philosophy has ever formed an integral part of all that he has produced, and especially has it been basic in …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… the works of Heraclitus, Francis Bacon, T.H. Huxley and Darwin as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and strategies (as discursive practices, performances and techniques) form a genealogy that bridges rhetorical …
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A computational framework for similarity estimation and stimulus reconstruction of Hodgkin-Huxley neural responses
… frequencies, a behaviour modelled by the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. Inthe presence of chaotic oscillations, similarity between neural responses depends on their temporal nature as firing times and amplitudes together reflect the true dynamics of theneuron. This thesis presents a method to estimate …
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Qualitative Models of Neural Activity and the Carleman Embedding Technique.
… qualitatively like the four variable Hodgkin-Huxley space clamped system and is more mathematically tractable than the Hodgkin Huxley model, thus allowing the action potential and other properties of the Hodgkin Huxley system to be more readily be visualized. In this thesis, it is shown that …
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Hitchhiking Through the Fire
… king. In the middle of this grim hell-on-earth, Huxley, a young boy, lives with his idealistic father. When the father is killed, Huxley falls in with Bracken, a rugged gun-forhire, a desperado in every sense of the word. Against his instincts, Bracken is compelled to deliver Huxley to safety, …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… how Jack London, Robert Hugh Benson, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell adopt anti-utopian perspectives to show the inherent flaws of supposed utopian belief systems. Building off of Gregory Claeys and Lyman Sargent’s definition of the anti-utopian genre, I attest that London, Benson, Huxley …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… by Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence, this dissertation argues that the short story form is ideally suited to expressing concerns about precisely the opposite occurring. Writing between 1880 and 1930, Hardy, Joyce, Rhys, Huxley and Lawrence all posited that …
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A Study of Ionic Permeability Changes Underlying Excitation in Myelinated Nerve Fibers of the Frog
<p>Investigations by Huxley and Stämpfli of the dependence of the resting potential and of the action potential at the node of Ranvier upon the ionic composition of the bathing medium provided evidence that the electrical activity resulted from a sequential alteration of the membrane permeability …
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… the visions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley within the context of the new media age. In <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business</em> Neil Postman draws a dichotomy between the prophecies of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. He claims that Orwell's …
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Nonlinear observer design and synchronization analysis for classical models of neural oscillators
… models of neural oscillators, the Hodgkin- Huxley model, the Fitzhugh-Nagumo model, the Morris-Lecar model, and the Hindmarsh-Rose model. Analysis techniques for nonlinear systems were used to develop a set of observers and perform synchronization analysis on the aforementioned neural …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… first-person accounts of Jean Cocteau, Aldous Huxley, and Walter Benjamin, I argue that representations of drug intoxication reveal the extent to which European modernists draw upon similar qualitative structures when giving form to their experiences. More specifically, I argue that it is by …
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Modulations of calcium binding and of energy coupling by the calcium pump of sarcoplasmic reticulum
… has developed, starting with the experiments of Huxley and Taylor (1958) and Huxley and Straub (1958), that, under physiological conditions, contraction in skeletal muscle is triggered by depolarisation of the membranes of the T-tubules. This results in the release of ca 2 + into the myoplasm …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… while the work of William Morris, Aldous Huxley and Kurt Vonnegut rejected science in preference for a different social order. More's Utopia and Bacon's New Atlantis were written at a time when feudal, agricultural society was being transformed by new discoveries and techniques. In a later …
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Mathematical modelling of pulsatility in neuroendocrine systems.
… oxytocin. A model first described by Hodgkin and Huxley is used as a starting point for the derivation of a description comprising a system of coupled non-linear partial differential equations. The equations have been based wherever possible on experimental data relevant to the system being …
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"Weird Sex Science" in Britain, ca. 1900-1939: Narratives of Naturalisation and Eradication
… how leading biologists, F. A. E. Crew and Julian Huxley chief among them, exploited semi-popular and popular platforms, including Britain’s newspapers, to relate their sexological studies of sex variations to their social and eugenic agendas. In order to better understand this dynamic use of …
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Distribution of Farey Series and Free Path Lengths for a Certain Billiard in the Unit Square
… of zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. In 1971 Huxley obtained a vast generalization of Franel's theorem for the zeros of a fixed Dirichlet L-function. In light of the difficulties surrounding the Riemann Hypothesis, in 1973 Niederreiter showed that it is, nevertheless, possible to obtain a best …
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Modelling the synaptic plasticity underlying habituation, sensitization and classical conditioning of the Aplysia Californica Gill Siphon withdrawal reflex
… well known neuron models, including the Hodgkin Huxley equations and the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire model. Also included is a brief description of some neural coding schemes. The next chapter explains the basic functioning of synapses and introduces some common forms of synaptic plasticity. This is …
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The Love of Learning in the Industrialized Age: Useful Knowledge, Imagination, and the Education of the Nineteenth-Century British Working Classes
… Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Henry Huxley, and William Forster.</p><p>Recognizing “use” and “useful” to be situation–based terms whose meanings, at times, depend upon who will “use” the education, this dissertation focuses on the …
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Action Potential Simulation of the Hirudo Medicinalis's Retzius Cell in MATLAB
<p>Modification of Hodgkin and Huxley’s experimentally derived set of nonlinear differential equations was implemented to accurately simulate the action potential of the <em>Hirudo Medicinalis’s</em> Retzius cell in <em>MATLAB</em> under analogous conditions to those found in the Retzius cell …
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The Effects of Composition on Weld Solidification Cracking in Low Alloy High Tensile Steels
… a number of commercial high tensile steels. The Huxley cracking test was employed for assessing the crack susceptibility of these steels. Oxygen analysis of weld and parent metals was made in order to determine the oxygen pick-up during welding. In addition examination of weld microstructure and …
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