A new analysis method to measure the propagation of different membrane currents along complex dendritic trees reveals the conditions leading to burst firing in a computational model of place cells.

BACKGROUND: Hypertension induces structural and functional damage in multiple organs. Evidence of subclinical damage ...

Falling charges: The particle drop tower used in the experiment. (Courtesy: N Mujica) Static electricity is an everyday phenomenon, but it is not well understood. Researchers at the University of ...

This article presents an application for failure probability in long-pipeline gas systems through the development of trend curves over time for the attributes of corrosion wear, which are related to ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. VaR measures the likelihood of a specific loss ...

The gambling industry has been actively voicing its concern about the encroachment of prediction markets on sports betting. Critics say prediction markets are little more but sports betting with some ...

Reliable earthquake recurrence probability assessment is crucial for seismic hazard mitigation but remains challenging due to sparse paleoseismic data on individual faults. We present an enhanced ...

When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...

Probability Distribution Notes: Probability is a fundamental aspect of mathematics that helps us understand and quantify uncertainty. Mastery of this subject is essential for students, as it has ...