We live in a noisy world. There is no place on the Earth where it is possible to have the experience of complete silence, not even the deepest place in the ocean. Billions of living and nonliving objects around us produce ...

In adulthood, mossy fibers (MFs), the axons of granule cells of the dentate gyrus (DG), release glutamate onto CA3 principal cells and interneurons. In contrast, during the first week of postnatal life MFs release ...

In this thesis we study some issues of the nonperturbative dynamics of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories. we consider SQCD with two chiral superfields in the adjoint representation and superpotential deformations, whose ...