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Justin S. Morrill CdV (from House Representatives, 38th Congress Album)
No full textThe photograph features a portrait of Justin S. Morrill (United States Representatives from Vermont). On its verso, it has a Mathew Brady backmark. The CdV is included in an album containing CdVs of Lincoln\u27s cabinet members as well as senators and representatives from the 38th Congress.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-cdv/1152/thumbnail.jp
Ipsilateral and contraletral transfer of tactile learning
No full textWe examined the spatial organization of perceptual learning in a cortex- dependent task. Rats learned a tactile task using four whiskers on one side of the snout, all others being clipped. These trained whiskers were then clipped and prosthetic whiskers were attached. Subsequent performance was found to be determined by the location of the prosthetic whiskers. There was partial transfer of learning to neighbouring whisker positions. In addition, there was partial transfer of learning to whisker positions on the other side of the snout, but only if the prosthetic whiskers were symmetrically opposite the trained whiskers. These findings suggest that neural changes underlying perceptual learning are distributed according to the topographic organization of the sensory cortical map. (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Party Influence in Congress and the Economy
No full textTo understand the extent to which partisan majorities in Congress influence economic policy, we compare financial market responses in recent midterm elections to Presidential elections. We use prediction markets tracking election outcomes as a means of precisely timing and calibrating the arrival of news, allowing substantially more precise estimates than a traditional event study methodology. We find that equity values, oil prices, and Treasury yields are slightly higher with Republican majorities in Congress, and that a switch in the majority party in a chamber of Congress has an impact that is only 10-30 percent of that of the Presidency. We also find evidence inconsistent with the popular view that divided government is better for equities, finding instead that equity valuations increase monotonically, albeit slightly, with the degree of Republican control.
Litigation and the value of tobacco companies
No full textFrank A. Sloan, Justin G. Trogdon, Carrie A. Mathew
The topography of tactile learning in humans
No full textThe spatial distribution of learned information within a sensory system can shed light on the brain mechanisms of sensory-perceptual learning. It has been argued that tactile memories are stored within a somatotopic framework in monkeys and rats but within a widely distributed network in humans. We have performed experiments to reexamine the spread of tactile learning across the fingertips. In all experiments, subjects were trained to use one fingertip to discriminate between two stimuli. Experiment 1 required identification of vibration frequency, experiment 2 punctate pressure, and experiment 3 surface roughness. After learning to identify the stimuli reliably, subjects were tested with the trained fingertip, its first and second neighbors on the same hand, and the three corresponding fingertips on the opposite hand. As expected, for all stimulus types, subjects showed retention of learning with the trained fingertip. However, the transfer beyond the trained fingertip varied according to the stimulus type. For vibration, learning did not transfer to other fingertips. For both pressure and roughness stimuli, there was limited transfer, dictated by topographic distance; subjects performed well with the first neighbor of the trained finger and with the finger symmetrically opposite the trained one. These results indicate that tactile learning is organized within a somatotopic framework, reconciling the findings in humans with those in other species. The differential distribution of tactile memory according to stimulus type suggests that the information is stored in stimulus-specific somatosensory cortical fields, each characterized by a unique receptive field organization, feature selectivity, and callosal connectivity
American Gods: fanboys and superheroes in the twentieth century
No full textThis paper details the development of comic book fan culture through the twentieth century. It examines the growing cultural relevance of comic book material and explores the narrative and thematic links between Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" and 1980s conceptions of masculinity and heroism.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Justin Man
Learning through maps: Functional significance of topographic organization in primary sensory cortex
No full textThe presence of 'maps' in sensory cortex is a hallmark of the mammalian nervous system, but the functional significance of topographic organization has been called into question by physiological studies claiming that patterns of neural behavioral activity transcend topographic boundaries. This paper discusses recent behavioral and physiological studies suggesting that, when animals or human subjects learn perceptual tasks, the neural modifications associated with the learning are distributed according to the spatial arrangement of the primary sensory cortical map. Topographical cortical representations of sensory events, therefore, appear to constitute a true structural framework for information processing and plasticity
Lizzo “Truth Hurts” Co-Author Allegations
No full textFamous recording artist, Lizzo, filed a preemptive lawsuit on October 23rd, 2019 to disprove allegations that Justin and Jeramiah Raisen and Justin “Yves” Rothman deserve author credit for her song, “Truth Hurts.”Lizzo is seeking a declaratory judgment that the alleged authors have no interest in the copyright or right to share profits. The Raisens and Rothman claim that the lyric “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch”, which originated from a popular internet meme, was a part of an unreleased demo, which Lizzo recorded at the Raisen’s studio, and on the final track. Lizzo claims that Rothman believes that she will pay him to stop making accusations against her, simply because he was present at a writing session for the demo track.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on November 11, 2019. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
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Lizzo “Truth Hurts” Co-Author Allegations
No full textFamous recording artist, Lizzo, filed a preemptive lawsuit on October 23rd, 2019 to disprove allegations that Justin and Jeramiah Raisen and Justin “Yves” Rothman deserve author credit for her song, “Truth Hurts.”Lizzo is seeking a declaratory judgment that the alleged authors have no interest in the copyright or right to share profits. The Raisens and Rothman claim that the lyric “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch”, which originated from a popular internet meme, was a part of an unreleased demo, which Lizzo recorded at the Raisen’s studio, and on the final track. Lizzo claims that Rothman believes that she will pay him to stop making accusations against her, simply because he was present at a writing session for the demo track.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on November 11, 2019. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
The topography of tactile working memory
No full textTo investigate the contribution of topographically organized brain areas to tactile working memory, we asked human sub-jects to compare the frequency of two vibrations presented to the same fingertip or to different fingertips. The vibrations ranged from 14 to 24 Hz and were separated by a retention interval of variable length. For intervals 1 sec, subjects were accurate when both vibrations were delivered to the same fingertip but were less accurate when the two vibrations were delivered to different fingertips. For 1 or 2 sec intervals, subjects performed equally well when comparing vibrations delivered either to the same finger or to corresponding fingers on oppo-site hands, but they performed poorly when the vibrations were delivered to distant fingers on either hand. These results sug-gest that working memory resides within a topographic frame-work. As a further test, we performed an experiment in whic
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