Many neurons display bistability--coexistence of two firing modes such as bursting and tonic spiking or tonic spiking and silence.Bistability has been proposed to endow neurons with richer forms of information processing in general and to be involved in short-term memory in particular by allowing a brief signal to elicit long-lasting changes in fir
A case of Ustilago spp. infection identified by whole genome sequencing in a pediatric patient undergoing open-chest extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Objectives: Patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are susceptible to fungal infections, also from rare or emerging pathogens.We present a case of a 3-year-old male patient hospitalized for respiratory failure and subjected to open-chest ECMO support, with a fungal infection from a pathogen not identifiable by standard metho
Broadening the Bandwidth of Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials with Embedded Square Frames
A narrow frequency bandwidth of epsilon-near-zero metamaterials limits the use of many optical, microwave, and electronic devices.In this paper, we propose a recipe to broaden the operational bandwidth by employing a structure of properly tailored square frames Accessories nested within each other.To illustrate this effect, we derive the effective