OBJECTIVE It has been claimed that urethral hypermobility and resting urethral pressure can largely explain stress incontinence in women. In this study we tried to replicate these findings in an unselected cohort of women seen for urodynamic testing, including as many potential confounders as possible. STUDY DESIGN This study is a retrospective analysis of data obtained from 341 women. They a...

Phosphorus (P) is an indispensable nutrient for arable crops, but at the same time, contributes to excessive eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems. Knowledge about P essential assess possible risks of being transported towards vulnerable Our objective was characterize along a catena from and wetland soils sediments shallow lagoon Baltic Sea. The characterization soil sediment samples included mo...

The technique of macro EMG is used to investigate the motor unit architecture in a number of pathological conditions. Amplitude and area are the most commonly used criteria, but these parameters alone are not sufficient to assess the complexity of the macro MUP morphology. In an attempt to examine the morphology of the macro MUP in more detail, additional measures were investigated including, (...

In this paper we present a template-based method of motion estimation which tracks two-handed-gestures. In our method the gesturing information of temporal motion and spatial luminance is fully utilized. The dominant motion of the detected region corresponding to the tracked object (some hand or the head) is computed. Using this result the object template is warped to yield a prediction templat...

We consider the fundamental problem of matching a template to signal. do so by M-estimation, which encompasses procedures that are robust gross errors (i.e., outliers). Using standard results from empirical process theory, we derive convergence rate and asymptotic distribution M-estimator under relatively mild assumptions. also discuss optimality estimator, both in finite samples minimax sense ...

Limitations associated with global measures of function in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and the qualitative nature of needle electromyography have stimulated the development of alternate means of monitoring disease severity and progression in ALS. Thus, the objective of this study was to examine the ability of one these techniques, decomposition-based quantitative electromy...

This Article addresses the future of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in an entirely reformed primary care landscape under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Given health centers’ ability to fill crucial access gaps that will remain after health reform, FQHCs stand to undertake an increased role and are thus vital to the implementation of the ACA. Yet questions remain as to whether curren...

Decomposition-enhanced spike-triggered averaging (DE-STA) has been developed as a method for obtaining a motor unit number estimate (MUNE). We describe the method and report control data for the first dorsal interosseous/adductor pollicis and thenar muscles and reliability in the thenar muscles. Seventeen subjects (ages 20-50 years) took part in the study. The maximum M potential was elicited w...