A LAYERED CONTROL ARCHITECTURE OF SLEEP AND AROUSAL

A Layered Control Architecture of Sleep and Arousal

Sleep and wakefulness are promoted not by a single neural pathway but via wake or sleep-promoting nodes distributed across layers of the brain.We equate each layer with a brain region in proposing a layered subsumption model for arousal based on a computational architecture.Beyond the brainstem the layers include the diencephalon (hypothalamus, tha

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Simplex Generic Toponyms in Four English-speaking Jurisdictions

Toponymic literature generally recognizes three main structures in English: those with a specific + generic element (e.g.Tweed River, Mount White); those that consist of a specific element alone (e.g.Perth, Washington); and less commonly, here those with a generic element preceded by the definite article (e.g.The Bend, The Bluff).There are of cours

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