Surely, Governor, no one is pleased that Iraq is descending backward into nightmarish misery punctuated by bombings and Shiite autocracy.
Since the late 1970s (e.g. Rockland and Pandya 1979), it has been known that extrinsic corticocortical (ignoring thalamocortical) connections between areas in the visual system have distinct laminar characteristics, which depend on whether they are ascending (forward) or descending (backward).
Prehensile-fingered climbers descend backward and generally with a walking type of leg sequence.
I informed my climbing partner that the avalanche risk was just too great and I descended — backward!
The most recent layers are thick and airy, while the older layers are thin and dense, which means that to drill down through the ice is to descend backward in time, at first gradually and then much more rapidly.
David Brown, whose four children, Sam, 8, Mallory, 6, and the twins, Henry and Julia, 4, were at the Pelham Country Club using three different plastic sliders: a long purple sled that seats up to five ("that's our favorite one," Mr. Brown said), a small orange sled and a dish that always spins around so that the rider descends backward.
Explanatory variables with a p value < 0.25 were included in the multivariable model using a stepwise descending method (backward).
This paper refers to extrinsic connections between cortical areas (and subcortical structures and the spinal cord) as afferent, efferent, ascending, descending, forward, backward, driving and modulatory.
The participant is asked to recall the numbers in ascending numerical order (forward) or descending numerical order (backward).
In summary, the available evidence suggests ascending connections in the motor system have a forward character and descending connections are backward in nature.
Conversely, predictions are thought to be conveyed from deep pyramidal cells by backward (descending) connections, to target the superficial pyramidal cells encoding prediction error (Bastos et al., 2012; Mumford, 1992).
