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U.S. neuroscientists have identified a neuronal mechanism that helps people rapidly distinguish similar, yet distinct, places — helping explain deja vu.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Picower Institute for Learning and Memory say their finding might lead to treatments for memory-related disorders, as well as for the confusion and disorientation that plague some elderly individuals.
Study co-author Professor Susumu Tonegawa said forming memories of places and contexts engages a part of the brain called the hippocampus. Tonegawa and colleagues have been exploring how each of the three hippocampal subregions — the dentate gyrus, CA1 and CA3 — contribute to learning and memory.
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led team of neuroscientists has determined the 98 percent of brain activity considered background noise is, in fact, important.
Indiana University Associate Professor Olaf Sporns and doctoral student Christopher Honey note brains are always active, even when people are at rest. In the resting state, waves of neural activity ripple through the brain, creating fluctuating and ever-changing patterns. Sporns and Honey say such offer insights into what the brain does while idle.
Some people see the brain in terms of inputs and outputs, like a computer. If you provide an input, youll get a particular output, said Honey. We take a different
FINSHASTRA, the publication of X-Fin was launched last year with the aim of promoting B-School students to express their well thought out and researched views on topics of financial interest.
This publication is sponsored by: ICICI Bank
For the upcoming publication articles are invited on the following topic :
1. Industry Analysis : You can choose industry of your choice. Below is a brief description of what you are can to do in Industry Analysis. The list is merely indicative and not exhaustive.
In industry analysis you are supposed to define the industry, list the standard factors used to profile an industrys economic
Thirty years after a Revolution''grün''drehte the plains around this city in India basket of bread, a group of government officials ambitious, expensive and local councillors High-Tech entrepreneur tries something almost as ambitious transformation of these sleepy farm country in the capital 'Technology Centre of northern India .'''' Chandigarh,''glossy brochures explain that potential investors,''the city with his head.''Chandigarh was designed and built by the Swiss-modernist Le Corbusier, born in 1950 - replacing the former capital of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, was absorbed by partition. Now
Stoutly defending scientists, Union minister for science and technology Kapil Sibal said his ministry's image would be "untarnished" despite the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report alleging non-utilisation of funds for research.
In an interview to The Times of India here on Monday, he regretted the low budgetary allocation for his ministry. Excerpts: The CAG has accused scientists of not utilising funds drawn from the ministry for research.
Why? Yes. We have been asked by the CAG to explain why the funds granted to some institutions were not utilised.
But you must note that a majority of institutions like the Indian Institute of
Faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, have decided to wait until the Supreme Court order, it is accessible from Monday, before a decision on their future.
Given that the next consultation, if ever, in July-end, many faculty members are of the opinion that the situation could change in their favour as Murli Manohar Joshi can no longer, as before the MHRD minister after the elections.
The SC has governed IIMS MHRD and the opening of a dialogue on the issue of fees helm. If it is not sorted it, the SC to hear the case again in mid-July.
"We commend
University Park, Pa. -– A Smeal College of Business MBA student is scheduled to appear on the CNBC program "Fast Money" on Friday (July 27) during the television show's "Grade the Trade" segment.
Second-year MBA student Jason Munson will have 30 seconds to explain what stocks he would buy and sell under a specific scenario described by the show's host, Dylan Ratigan. When he's finished, the show's panel of financial analysts will critique his stock advice and assign him a letter grade.
"Fast Money" airs at 8 p.m. Eastern time on CNBC.
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Forced by the government to delay the declaration on the results of the entrance, at the beginning of Indian Institute of Management, fear the loss of the best and brightest to other business schools.
I do not know if it IIM class, students can register and pay fees for the second season-B-schools, with their list of candidates before their IIM administrations fear.
The European Union human resource development ministry yesterday a circular to IIMS, IITS and other higher education institutions require a central funding freeze on the Declaration on the final results until a new directive .
The IIMS had planned to explain
The decline Sumantra Ghosal is a great loss for researchers and practitioners even in the field of strategic management and leadership.
By CK Prahalad, Ghosal was one of two Indians in recent times, the weightiest contributions to the theory and practice of strategic management.
During Prahalad building the heart of its competence in resource based on the expanded vision of the first company Edith Penrose, in the late 1950's and later by Birger Wernerfelt in the years 1980, Ghosal, for its part, constructed on the perspective skills Prahalad For a new perspective not only of the company, but the economy as a
Community internship must for MBA students
The Department of Management Studies of Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College of Engineering has initiated a mandatory Community Internship Programme for MBA students.
For this purpose, the college has signed memorandums of understanding with two non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Helping Hand and Dream School Foundation, both of which will play the role of lead NGOs for the internship programme.
It is a three-week intensive management training course designed to expose MBA students to a variety of social and economic challenges facing todays underprivileged population. Heres how the college authorities explain the rationale behind the internship: At
Students of the Mangayarkarasi College of Arts and Science for Women, Paravai, had a brainstorming session on women's rights when they were asked to raise their voice against violation of their rights.
At a legal awareness programme organised recently by the NSS, the students were educated about laws, rights and how to fight violations.
The advocate, R. Gandhi, urged them to be courageous and stressed that remaining sentimental made women vulnerable to be trapped while men escaped punishment.
"If an ordinary woman does not question and speak out, it means, in effect, she is endorsing violations of rights," Mr. Gandhi said, answering queries
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