In Search for the Avian Trigeminal Magnetic Sensor: Distribution of Peripheral and Central Terminals of Ophthalmic Sensory Neurons in the Night-Migratory Eurasian Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)

In night-migratory songbirds, neurobiological and behavioral evidence suggest the existence of a magnetic sense associated with the ophthalmic Facial Cleansers branch of the trigeminal nerve (V1), possibly providing magnetic positional information.Curiously, neither the unequivocal existence, structural nature, nor the exact location of any sensory

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Secularization elsewhere: it is more complicated than that

This paper argues that the Barricade Tape modern secularization thesis is in the first place an explanation of the past of European societies and their colonial offshoots and that, contra its critics, it was not intended as a universal template.Such momentous historical changes cannot simply be repeated if only because, while the secularization of

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Language Preservation Problems in Parametric Timed Automata

Parametric timed automata (PTA) are a powerful formalism to VHS Rewinders model and reason about concurrent systems with some unknown timing delays.In this paper, we address the (untimed) language- and trace-preservation problems: given a reference parameter valuation, does there exist another parameter valuation with the same untimed language, or

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