Visually-guided arm reaching movements are produced by distributed neural networks within parietal and frontal regions of the cerebral cortex. Experimental data indicate that (I) single neurons in these regions are broadly tuned to parameters of movement; (2) appropriate commands are elaborated by populations of neurons; (3) the coordinated action of neurons can be visualized using a neuronal p...

OBJECTIVES To determine the optimal threshold of blood and urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) to predict moderate to severe acute kidney injury (AKI) and persistent moderate to severe AKI lasting at least 48 consecutive hours, as defined by an adjudication panel. METHODS A multicentre prospective observational study enrolled intensive care unit (ICU) patients and recorded...

 Abstract—Many natural and manmade dynamical systems that are modeled as large nonlinear multi-oscillator systems like power systems are hard to analyze. For such systems, we propose a nonlinear modal decoupling (NMD) approach inversely constructing as many decoupled nonlinear oscillators as the system’s oscillation modes so that individual decoupled oscillators can be easily analyzed to infer...

AIM To assess magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and faecal calprotectin to detect endoscopic postoperative recurrence in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). METHODS From two tertiary centers, all patients with CD who underwent ileocolonic resection were consecutively and prospectively included. All the patients underwent MRI and endoscopy within the first year after surgery or after the restor...

Studies on respiratory muscle resting by negative pressure ventilation (NPV) in patients with stable COPD have given conflicting results. Probable explanations lie in criteria of patients' selection, method of NPV application, and lack of supervision of respiratory muscle rest. Thirteen hypercapnic patients with COPD were, therefore, randomly assigned to either a NPV group or a control group. T...

Land degradation in drylands is the process in which undesirable conditions emerge due to human and natural causes. Despite the particularly deleterious effects of degradation, and it’s potentially irreversible nature, regional assessments have provided conflicting extents, rates, and severities of degradation, both globally and regionally. Current monitoring of degradation relies upon the dete...

Decoupled architectures have previously been investigated in the context of high performance scientific computing. For general purpose computing, however, superscalar processors have proven to be flexible in providing high performance across a wide range of applications. To achieve this goal, these architectures have incorporated enormous amounts of complexity to obtain modest performance impro...

We examined the quantitative electrocardiographic differentiation of acute pericarditis from normal variant ST-T changes. The ECGs of 19 patients with acute pericarditis were compared with those of 20 subjects with typical normal variant changes. Patients were excluded if their ECGs demonstrated conditions that markedly altered repolarization. The positive predictive values (PPV) and negative p...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies quantifying moderate and severe carotid stenosis by direct millimeter measures on CT angiography (CTA) did not consider how prevalence and gender may influence classification cutoff values. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hundred nineteen carotid arteries were evaluated in consecutive patients with known or suspected carotid artery disease. Millimeter measu...