The brain's capacity to analyse and interpret information is limited ultimately by the input it
receives. This sets a premium on information capacity of sensory receptors, which can be …

Seeing begins in the photoreceptors, where light is absorbed and signaled to the nervous
system. Throughout the animal kingdom, photoreceptors are diverse in design and purpose. …

Phototransduction in invertebrate microvillar photoreceptors is thought to be mediated by
the activation of phospholipase C (PLC), but how this leads to gating of the light-sensitive …

… RC Hardie is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of …
Kaltenbacher and RC Hardie, “High-resolution infrared image reconstruction using multiple …

… dissociated ommatidia (Hardie, 1991a, 1991b; Ranganathan … it was therefore suggested
(Hardie, 1991a) that the trp gene product … reported (Hardie, 1991a). A detailed reexamination …

… Hardie is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Dayton. Prior to teaching at the Univeristy of Dayton, Dr. Hardie …

Early detection of lung nodules is extremely important for the diagnosis and clinical management
of lung cancer. In this paper, a novel computer aided detection (CAD) system for the …

Practically no other invertebrate has been used so extensively for the investigation of the visual
system as the fly, particularly the genera Musca, Calliphora and Drosophila. The reasons …

… In fly, under appropriate conditions, a component due to the steady accumulation of
metarhodopsin may be observed (Hardie, unpublished) but significant slow phase adaptation still …

COMPARED with the variety of neuromodulatory agents acting through second messenger
systems, the number of fast neurotran-smitters which directly activate ion channels is limited. …