OBJECTIVES This study evaluates whether contrast-enhanced (CE) cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) can be used to identify critical isthmus sites for ventricular tachycardia (VT) in ischemic and nonischemic heart disease. BACKGROUND Fibrosis interspersed with viable myocytes may cause re-entrant VT. CE-CMR has the ability to accurately delineate fibrosis. METHODS Patients who underwent VT abla...

This study focuses in on a moment of live performance in which the entrainment amongst a musical quartet is threatened. Entrainment is asymmetric in so far as there is an ensemble leader who improvises and expands the structure of a last chorus of a piece of music beyond the limits tacitly negotiated during prior rehearsals and performances. Despite the risk of entrainment being disturbed and p...

Linguistic entrainment, the phenomena whereby dialogue partners speak more similarly to each other in a variety of dimensions, is key to the success and naturalness of interactions. While there is considerable evidence for both lexical and acoustic-prosodic entrainment, little work has been conducted to investigate the relationship between these two different modalities using the same measures ...

When interacting individuals entrain, they begin to speak more like each other. To support research on entrainment in cooperative multi-party dialogues, we have created a corpus where teams of three or four speakers play two rounds of a cooperative board game. We describe the experimental design and technical infrastructure used to collect our corpus, which consists of audio, video, transcripti...

The output precision and information transmission was studied in a model neocortical neuron that was driven by a periodic presynaptic spike train with a variable number of inhibitory inputs on each cycle. Spike-timing precision was maintained during feedforward propagation during entrainment. The range of presynaptic "ring rates and precision for entrainment was determined. During entrainment t...

The auditory system displays modulations in sensitivity that can align with the temporal structure of the acoustic environment. This sensory entrainment can facilitate sensory perception and is particularly relevant for audition. Systems neuroscience is slowly uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying the behaviorally observed sensory entrainment effects in the human sensory system. The prese...

The air conditioning system of most commercial aircrafts consists a main system, which operates on the principle mix ventilation, and personalized called gasper. Field studies show that passengers prefer to keep gasper parcially open or redirect it away from head due discomfort. Therefore, there is demand characterize flow this device for future improvements. In way, present work aims experimen...

Entrainment to environmental light/dark (LD) cycles is a central function of circadian clocks. In Drosophila, entrainment is achieved by Cryptochrome (CRY) and input from the visual system. During activation by brief light pulses, CRY triggers the degradation of TIMELESS and subsequent shift in circadian phase. This is less important for LD entrainment, leading to questions regarding light inpu...