introduction: parkinson s disease (pd) is a common progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which its onset is later in adults and it s incidence increases in people aged between 55 and 60 years. dexterity, because of it s role at upper extremity function and person independency in function, is assessed in rehabilitation. purdue- pegboard test often is used in rehabilitation clinical settings...

Production test and device I/O characterization are different tasks. Measurements and analysis associated with these different tasks need quite different tools. 1 Serial Data Links – the future is “bright” – ! " # $ #% ! & ' ( # ) ( " * # + , ( . / # 2 Design Qualification vs Production Test It is absolutely necessary to distinguish clearly between design qualification/characterization and the ...

Over the past two decades, naturalistically minded philosophers have expended a fair amount of ______________________________ This paper presents the leading idea of my doctoral dissertation and thus has been shaped by the reactions of all the members of my thesis committee: Charles Chastain, Walter Edelberg, W. Kent Wilson, Dorothy Grover, and Charles Marks. I am especially grateful for the he...

Double-stranded DNA "overstretches" at a pulling force of about 65 pN, increasing in length by a factor of 1.7. The nature of the overstretched state is unknown, despite its considerable importance for DNA's biological function and technological application. Overstretching is thought by some to be a force-induced denaturation and by others to consist of a transition to an elongated, hybridized ...

We propose a CUSUM type test for constant correlation that goes beyond a previously suggested correlation constancy test by considering Spearman’s rho in arbitrary dimensions. By using copula-based expressions, we simultaneously extend a previously suggested copula constancy test. We calculate the asymptotic null distribution using an invariance principle for the sequential empirical copula pro...

We introduce a data-based approach alternative to the rule-based parameter approach toward system identification. Motivated by the design-intensive problem of the parameter approach, the Self-organizing Associative Memory (SAM) system seeks to represent the system using a subset of stored training data. We surmise that knowledge is association between memorized objects, not memorized rules. We ...

introduction: a large body of evidence points to oxidative stress as prime candidate mediating the behavioral impairments and memory deficits in alzheimer's disease (ad). it has been demonstrated that hyperoxia preconditioning activates complex endogenous neuroprotective mechanisms including an increase in capacity of antioxidant defence mechanisms. the aim of this study was to investigate...