The nitroglycerin-flicker test, as suggested and modified by Krasno and Ivy, has been used to test normal individuals and patients with a variety of cardiovascular diseases. The hypothesis that this test would serve as an index of the presence of vascular disease or spasm elsewhere in the body than the retina was explored. These studies have failed to justify the drawing of conclusions based on...

Voltage flicker problems have long existed in several of the distribution areas served by the Taiwan Power Company. In the past, those research results indicating that the estimated 10 V Δ value based on the conventional method is significantly smaller than the survey value. This paper is used to study the relationship between the voltage flicker problems and harmonic power variation for the po...

Attention biases sensory processing toward neurons containing information about behaviorally relevant events. These attentional biases apparently reflect the combined influence of feature enhancement and suppression. We examined the separate influence of enhancement and suppression in visual processing by determining whether responses to an unattended flicker were modulated when the flicker fea...

This paper proposes a new method of monitoring and analyzing voltage flicker based on wavelet packet transform and virtual instrument, and establishes an arithmetic model of the system. First, through the wavelet package transform, we can extract the amplitude modulation waveform, get the accurate time when the voltage flicker occurs and stops, and count the frequency and amplitude of voltage f...

Interactions between direction-selective mechanisms for motion were examined in strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia. Amblyopes were found to have a marked reduction in sensitivity to flicker or movement when the amblyopic eye was presented with a combination of two gratings drifting in opposite directions at the same velocity (i.e., a counterphase grating). Sensitivity to flicker of the coun...

Endothelial dysfunction is a key pathogenic mechanism of CVD. The retinal microvascular network offers a unique, non-invasive window to study endothelial function. Recently, dynamic measurement of retinal vessel caliber using flicker light stimulation has been used to evaluate potential endothelial dysfunction and other mechanisms in CVD. A variety of studies now indicate that retinal vasodilat...

Voltage flicker problems have long existed in several of the distribution areas served by the Taiwan Power Company. In the past, those research results indicating that the estimated 10 V Δ value based on the conventional method is significantly smaller than the survey value. This paper is used to study the relationship between the voltage flicker problems and harmonic power variation for the po...

Gamma band modulations in neural activity have been proposed to mediate attentional processes. To support a causal link between gamma activity and attentional selection, we attempt to evoke gamma oscillations by a 50-Hz subliminal flicker. We find that a subliminal 50-Hz flicker at a target location, before target presentation, speeds up and enhances target detection and discrimination. This ef...

Owing to violent and stochastic load fluctuation, different voltage flicker components may exist in different phases. Traditionally, the averages of three single-phase values are given. However, in this paper, it wants to investigate a fast computation algorithm to calculate directly the equivalent three-phase values. After the voltage waveforms of three phases are recorded, the voltage flicker...

The human visual sensitivity to sinusoidal flickering light is generally band-pass tuned to temporal frequency, probably due to retinal physiological properties consist of low-pass and following high-pass filtering processes. It is also shown that the temporal sensitivity of visual cortex has a band-pass shape. Meanwhile, for the flickering lights with two or more frequency components, flicker ...