Cortically-controlled population stochastic facilitation as a plausible substrate for guiding sensory transfer across the thalamic gateway.

The thalamus is the primary gateway that relays sensory information to the cerebral cortex.While a single recipient cortical cell receives the convergence of many principal relay cells of the thalamus, each thalamic cell in turn integrates a dense and distributed synaptic feedback from the cortex.During sensory processing, the influence of this fun

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Politics and Emerging Media: The Revenge of Publicity

Emerging media technologies and applications have accompanied by an explosion of diverse means and practices for engaging in public life, raising the possibility of an invigorated and improved democratic politics.Investment in this possibility is premised on acceptance of the FIBER norms associated with publicity, specifically access to information

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Lessons in Public Touchscreen Development

In Patches October 2010, the NCSU Libraries debuted its first public touchscreen information kiosk, designed to provide on-demand access to useful and commonly consulted real-time displays of library information.This article presents a description of the hardware and software development process, as well as the rationale behind a variety of design

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