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Office of Student ResearchComparative Medicine: Integrative Cell Signaling & Neurobiology of Metabolism (ICSNM)Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences: Reproductive Neurosciences Group
Research Interests
Neurotransmission; Neurotransmitter response and synaptic plasticity; Cellular physiology of neuropeptides (hypocretin/orexin, melanin concentrating hormone, neuropeptide Y, ghrelin, leptin, and a-MSH); Ion channels (Na+, Ca2+, K+ channels); Electrophysiology/patch clamp recording; calcium imaging; Hypothalamus/lateral hypothalamic area; Energy homeostasis/feeding regulation; Sleep homeostasis and regulation; Drug addiction more...
- Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Physiology, China, 1996
Selected Publications
- Liu, Z.W., Faraguna, U., Cirelli, C., Tononi, G., Gao, X.B. (2010) Direct evidence for wake-related increases and sleep-related decreases in synaptic strength in rodent cortex. J Neuroscience 30: 8671-8675.
- Rao, Y., M. Lu, F. Ge, D.J. Marsh, S. Qian, A.H. Wang, M.R. Picciotto, X.-B. Gao. (2008) Regulation of synaptic efficacy in hypocretin/orexin containing neurons by melanin concentrating hormone in the lateral hypothalamus. Journal of Neuroscience 28: 9101-9110.
- Rao, Y., Z.-W. Liu, E. Borok, R.L. Rabenstein, M. Shanabrough, M. Lu, M.R. Picciotto, T.L. Horvath, and X.-B. Gao. (2007) Prolonged wakefulness induces experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in hypocretin/orexin neurons. Journal of Clinical Investigation 117: 4022-4033.


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how in the WORLD did the hawks beat this thunder team by 9
Ibaka was like "how in the h*ll did he make that?"
Anybody got some Visine? Extra strength.
So nice to see Rivers make a shot.
My Anthony Davis website: http://thebrow.uphero.com/
I mean where is the Lopez from the first 3 games?
People need to relax, legit, lets be real, Davis is still thin and young, really young, relax!
New Orleans Pelicans-Seattle Seahawks-Atlanta Braves-Anaheim Ducks
RIP HunnyB
This fits HunnyB/FlyGirl so well- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzTiSEfM00
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Final score: 132 to 72!
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This is a long process. There are going to be nights like tonight. It is the reason why we will be good in years to come.
Pitiful first half hornets. I still have very high hopes this season but cmon
Seriously, what's there to fight about in this game? Monty going crazy!
Oh so Kendrick isn't going to get into it with a Hornets player but with the Hornets coach? Really? LMBO!
I'm already looking towards tomorrow.
Monty at least has fight.
looking for team to bandwagon, pls help
Love the passion outta Monty! Now if only his team would show that kind of sac.
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The other title of this question could also be: How to improve my creativeness?
During the past years I noticed that a loot of my small applications that I write in my free time to ease my life could also be useful for some of my friends. They asked me to get them a copy. Even if the applications are working as they should I feel a little bit embarrassed because they GUIs are all looking really ugly.
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The purpose of this section is to explain how to download and install MapBuilder
The design philosophy of MapBuilder is to minimize the server requirements, but for a web application you will need a web server to serve your pages at a minimum. (The exception to this is for applications that don't need to load XML documents from outside the web, in which case you can also load your application using the file:// protocol. For example, try loading the simple demo by double clicking on the index.html file from a directory explorer view.)
There are 2 server side scripts that may be required, depending on your application. Applications can be written so that these are not required at all; the Simple demo is one example where all XML documents are served from the same domain and there is no "save" functionality in the page.
A proxy script to bypass JavaScript security restrictions when loading documents that originate from a different domain than yours. Javascript security prevents a website at http://mywebsite.org to post to another domain, eg http://mywfs.org , so instead a proxy is set up on the server like http://mywebsite.org/mapbuilder/proxy.php which forwards requests to http://mywfs.org.
In order to enable the proxy, you should install mapbuilder into a servlet like tomcat using mapbuilder.war or alternatively ensure that the PHP module is enabled in your Apache configuration.
MapBuilder is available as .zip file for use in a Apache/PHP environment, as well as a .war file for J2EE servlet containers like Jakarta Tomcat. Installation is generally just a matter of expanding the archive into the correct directory. All server-side scripts are automatically available by installing the appropriate archive. More details on each environment are available in the following pages.
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Download the xxx-war.zip archive and extract the mapbuilder.war file to the Tomcat webapps directory. Depending on your Tomcat setup, you may or may not have to restart Tomcat, the default tomcat setup will expand the .war file automatically. Installation details for other servlet containers may vary.
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Download the MapBuilder zip file and unpack it into a web accessible directory. With Apache this will be the htdocs directory. Installation details for other web servers may vary.
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and across the country still aren't happy enough with BO being re-elected because they are still clinging massively to the 'divide and conquer' theme. Even to the point that racial searching in crowds at the acceptance/concedence speeches are being bantered back and forth. Good grief.
It only proves that BO's ability to totally divide the country into race, gender, religious, age, and wealth groups worked. Doesn't it just make you all so proud of that moron who still lies about loving this country since it was so obviously the ONLY way he could win?
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Alan Jacksonsinger, songwriter
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This tall, blond country singer has made legions of female fans weak in the knees with homegrown love ballads delivered in his unmistakable Georgia accent. Jackson held various blue-collar jobs before signing with Arista for his debut album, Here in the Real World (1990), which has sold nearly one million copies. His second album, Don't Rock the Jukebox, was released in 1991. Jackson's charm and good looks have graced such television shows as Hee Haw and Grand Ole Opry.
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Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi), and it has a population of about 11 million people. Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups, the Dutch-speakers (about 60%), mostly Flemish, and the French-speakers (about 40%), mostly Walloons, plus a small group of German-speakers. Belgium's two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region, officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish Region. A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia.
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This is an introductory unit that aims to allow students to examine the structure of the Australian sports system. Students will be encouraged to review past trends that have shaped the sports system, gain an understanding of the current status of agencies and organisations nationally and internationally, and to draw upon this information to explore future directions in the organisation and governance of sport. Emphasis is also placed on conducting internal analyses of a variety of agencies and organisations, with a specific reference to employment in the sport industry plus, an analysis of the skills utilised by the sport manager.
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17. Hummingbird Centre (Okeefe): Beauty and the Beast
[by] John Martins-Manteiga,
curator Dominion Modern and the recent Toronto Mean City exhibit
There is a scene in the final act of the horror film, Trilogy of Terror where a voodoo-possessed Karen Black sits, a towering figure, legs straddling, jagged teeth, Bride-of-Frankenstein hair and butcher knife in hand as she jabs again and again into the floor-boards waiting for her victim to arrive.
On June 3, 2005 Dan Brambilla, CEO of the Hummingbird Centre presented the latest redevelopment plans on the future of the Centre to community stakeholders. In a nutshell Dan Brambilla's plans call for the addition of a condo tower on the southwest corner of the Hummingbird with additional lower storey wings projecting out north and south.
Dan Brambilla's redevelopment dreams were in limbo until he heard architect Daniel Libeskind say, "I would love to build a condo tower in Toronto." And with those inspiring words come the latest, grandest and grotesque plans yet.
Libeskind presented a slide show that showed the Hummingbird Centre site.
consumed by a very tall winged shaped tower. wrapping his scheme in a talk that was confused, hurried, full of psycho-poetic babble. And then he threw in a pseudo ode to multi-culturalism, and a nod to Torontos racial diversity.
His scheme is anything and everything you want it to be. The Hummingbird will have a condo on its site, and be an "entry point" where tourists will be debriefed and treated to a "world class" tribute to the arts, racial diversity and multiculturalism, while at the same time fight against discrimination and racism. The new entrance on Yonge Street will be shaped (I kid you not) like a globe welcoming the world into its womb.
Dan Brambilla envisions a cultural centre "on the amusement level of Disneyland."
When I sat listening to Liebeskind and viewing his graphic presentation, all I could think of was Karen Black, engulfing her victim, cannibalising and consuming it. I saw Dickinsons masterwork destroyed and devoured by Liebeskinds condo tower hovering maniacally over the Hummingbird like some vulture, wings straddling and suffocating it. If the plan is to build a tower that is out of proportion, out of joint andhas no business being on the same site, fine. But be honest enough to say that. Please don't drag every politically correct cliche on board to pad your argument to put a condo on the site.
When is it going to be okay to leave one of our treasured buildings alone? When are we going to say enough already? My advice to Dan Brambilla is build your condo somewhere else and restore the Hummingbird. If you are found with a budget shortfall, find new acts or performers to fill that shortfall. The Hummingbird is ours. It was a gift from E.P. Taylor to the citizens of Toronto. It belongs to us, with all its grace and beauty. If he does this, future generations will remember him for that, for having the courage and vision to be the caretaker of this modern jewel.
If this city is serious about preserving mid 20th century architecture then here's what should happen:
·-Restore the Hummingbird, this is architect Peter Dickinson's masterpiece!
·-Restore white marble proscenium walls that framed the lobby and obscured the escalators removed by misguided renovators who wanted to "fix" what they perceived as mistakes.
·-Restore the interior. Restore the vaulted ceiling. Remove the barrage of signs that take away form the architects original vision.
·-Maintain and restore the Hummingbird Centre's original site plan and landscaping.
·-Restore the Centre's original name. This after all was a gift to the city by E.P. Taylor and OKeefe Breweries.


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I have worn the same fragrence (L'Interdit - Givenchy) since I was 17 years old (50 years ago). A number of perfume shops have tried to tell me that the newest release is the same - absolutely incorrect. The fragrence is totally different from the original. I would like to know if the fragrence is still being manufactured - it appears there are a number of us interested in ordering the perfume. From reading the reviews, it seems we all feel the same about the original fragrence - absolutely wonderful.
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I wore L'Interdit for years, then they stopped selling it in the USA. When it re-appeared they changed the scent . I just loved the original fragrance and was very disappointed. Will they ever change back to the original? Thank you
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My sister and I have been wearing this for years. Whenever I find it, I buy two, she does the same. However, the last batch we bought smelled completely different and I wonder if your last reviewer is right and they have 'improved' it! What a shame. I will try another bottle though and keep fingers crossed. We used to get it from Harrods! They would call us when it came in and then mail it. Very smart. Doesnt seem to happen any more.
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Gallery: Talk To Me Exhibit at MoMA Examines Communication Between Peop...
Antonelli, working with curatorial assistant Kate Carmody, divided the exhibit into six categories: objects, bodies, life, city, worlds, and double entendre. The designs emphasize our increasing desire to share information and have a personal dialogue with objects is driving force behind design. Fittingly, the curators set up a blog where they shared all of the possible submissions as they planned the show. Pieces in the final show range from furniture and accessories to machines and buildings.
Some of the designs, like the BIX Communicative Display Skin, are already implement in the real world. Created by Jan and Tim Elder of realities:united, the skin transforms the facade of a biomorphic art museum in Austria into a gigantic urban screen. Light rings atop the screen can be adjusted for brightness, and the screen can be used to enhance the museum's communication with the community. MoMA writes, "The modular system embodies a vision of architecture as a changing, moving, and performing medium and demonstrates an accessible, eco-conscious (for its era) integration of media surfaces in urban landscapes."
Many of the objects in the show are clever ideas that give silent everyday things a voice. Botanicalls, a gadget designed by a group of students in 2006 while in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, lets house plants talk to their owners. The device uses moisture sensors in a plant's soil to send messages that are either tweeted or read allowed on a recording to let its caretaker know when it needs a drink. While Botanicalls is a playful idea, the technology used could be implemented and adapted for a number of situations.
The double entendre category has some of the most playful and fun ideas that allow visitors to interact with the art. Becoming Animal, by Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos, is a particularly intriguing design that lets you virtually become a dog and interact with the mythical Kerberos, the three-headed gate keeper of the underworld. In the installation, you'll wear a dog mask made of heavy silkscreened paper and be guided by three actors. Kerberos will respond with real emotions, showing love, hate, and anger through sounds, facial expressions and gestures.
While we can show you images of the designs and explain how they work, the only way you can get the full interactive experience of Talk to Me is to see it for yourself. As the curators write, "Designers are using the whole world to communicate, transforming it into a live stage for an information parkour and enriching our lives with emotion, motion, direction, depth, and freedom." Talk to Me is an excellent exploration, even experience, of this idea, while at the same time expanding the idea of what a museum exhibition should be.
The exhibit will be on view at MoMA through November 7.
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I think you have grievously misread Harris' thesis. He is using the example of muslim suicide bombers and the text of islam as evidence, but Harris is equally hard on christian moderates and fundamentalists, and states the case over and over again that all religious faith (believing in the existence of supernatural beings) is the problem.
From The End of Faith, chapter 4, The Problem with Islam:
While my argument in this book is aimed at faith itself, the differences between faiths are as relevant as they are unmistakable. There is a reason, after all, why we must now confront Muslim, rather than Jain terrorists in every corner of the world. Jains do not believe anything that is remotely likely to inspire them to commit acts of suicidal violence against unbelievers. By any measure of normativity we might wish to adopt (ethical, practical, epistemological, economic, etc.), there are good beliefs and there are bad ones—and it should now be obvious to everyone than Muslims have more than their fair share of the latter.
To say that Harris isn't especially hard on Islam ignores chapter 4.
One facet of Sam's book I have not seen mentioned here, and that is propaganda… Where it is most clear, however, is the chapter on Islam.
Why is singling out Islam propaganda? Propaganda implies an underlying doctrine. What doctrine is Harris trying to propagate that requires singling out Muslims if they don't deserve it? Maybe he's trying to win market share from Michael Savage?
Sam doesn't want you thinking that those in Washington who typically act and vote against the will of the population should be your biggest fear-it is those evil menacing fundamentalists.
Why does it matter to Harris whether we think those in Washington should be our biggest fear? Is he a secret government agent on a mission to win atheists over to the Neocon point of view?


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