The Phaistos Disc Has Stumped Experts for 100 Years. An Old Theory Might Have Nailed Its Purpose.

Discovered in 1908, the disc is covered in undecipherable symbols that have perplexed experts and led to numerous theories ...
IEEE

Modeling Pyramidal Absorbers Using the Fourier Modal Method and the Mode Matching Technique

Abstract: The problem of plane wave diffraction from the periodic structure of an infinite PEC wall lined with pyramidal absorbers is considered. A hybrid method based on the R-matrix Fourier modal ...
GitHub

A PyTorch implementation for PyramidNets (Deep Pyramidal Residual Networks)

To train additive PyramidNet-200 (alpha=300 with bottleneck) on ImageNet-1k dataset with 8 GPUs: CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 python train.py --data ~/dataset ...
GitHub

Read and write TIFF files

store NumPy arrays in TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) files, and read image and metadata from TIFF-like files used in bioimaging. Image and metadata can be read from TIFF, BigTIFF, OME-TIFF, GeoTIFF, ...
IEEE

Accurate Modeling of Antenna Structures by Means of Domain Confinement and Pyramidal Deep Neural Networks

Abstract: The importance of surrogate modeling techniques has been gradually increasing in the design of antenna structures over the recent years. Perhaps the most important reason is a high cost of ...
Frontiers

Why have cortical layers? What is the function of layering? Do neurons in cortex integrate information across different layers?

This research topic was suggested by Robert Sachdev to bring together a series of articles dealing with the laminar organization of the neocortex. By convention, there are six cortical layers but this ...
Cfr.org

The Chinese Communist Party

Under the command of Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party faces a host of domestic and international challenges as it aims to bolster China’s great-power status. The CCP has had a monopoly on power ...
C&EN

Ultrasmall, Coating-Free, Pyramidal Platinum Nanoparticles for High Stability Fuel Cell Oxygen Reduction

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Ultrasmall (<5 nm diameter) noble metal nanoparticles with a high fraction of {111} ...
PNAS

Altered integration of excitatory inputs onto the basal dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most commonly known cause of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We found that while control animals integrate subthreshold feedforward excitatory inputs linearly, this ...