Connected people around the world were appalled by Bush policies — from the trashing of habeas corpus to renditions — but felt powerless to influence them.
The combination of strengthening and pruning HVC input to RA led to a dramatic reduction in LMAN's capacity to drive rendition-to-rendition variability in RA neurons.
How rendition-to-rendition variability in LMAN firing is regulated, and whether it contributes to learning-related changes in motor variability, remains to be explored.
Therefore, on the same dataset of the three most frequent syllable types, we estimated rendition-to-rendition consistency of overall syllable shape by means of spectral cross-correlation.
Finally, males produced their three most frequent syllables with lower rendition-to-rendition variability corresponding to higher consistency in terms of repeating more faithfully the MPF of these syllables when singing reactively.
The time constant of integration in the simulations was 0.2 ms. In order to quantify the rendition-to-rendition variability, first the RA spike train for the i-th rendition was converted into instantaneous firing rate R i (t) as follows: R i (t ) = 1 t k + 1 i − t k i , t k i < t < t k + 1 i, where t k i is the time of k-th RA spike in i-th rendition.
When paired with the strengthening and pruning of HVC-RA connections, however, weakening LMAN input by as much as 50% explained less than 20% of the overall decrease in the rendition-to-rendition variability of RA firing.
As a measure for rendition-to-rendition consistency, we calculated the CV of spectrotemporal parameters in the three syllables which were produced most often by a given subject in both contexts.
Fleet Foxes MySpacee page features a homemade video of them singing an aching version in a forest, while the YouTube page of the clip is full of congratulations, with one commenter stating how the rendition moved them to tears.
For instance, when it comes to "extraordinary rendition" (the term for shipping suspects to other countries for interrogation), she said that America did not send them anywhere where it knows they will be tortured.
