impulsivity features of individuals affect their movement patterns when learning sports skills. therefore, this study examined the effect of different levels of motor impulsivity on learning basketball basic skills. 3 groups of boys aged between 10 and 12 who were selected according to motor impulsivity levels participated in a basketball skills training course along with a control group (the s...

A minimum expected gamma (γ) pass rate for VMAT plan verification using ArcCHECK was established based on the RTTQA, TG119 test cases and 10 clinical plans with varying levels of complexity. The impact of the ‘Measurement Uncertainty’ parameter as available in the ArcCHECK software on γ pass rate was studied for both global and local γ analysis. Our results show that excluding measurement uncer...

ABSTRACT:In this paper, an improved design of a tunable optical filter device made up of alternating layers of MgF2 and Ta2O5is proposed. Different configurations of this narrow band pass (NBP) optical filter are used for whole visible spectral range (400nm-700nm).We report on the calculated values of the design parameters, such as pass band wavelength, 3-dB bandwidth and quality factor for dif...

Frequency-modulated (FM) sweeps are common components of vocalizations, including human speech. Both sweep direction and rate influence discrimination of vocalizations. Across species, relatively less is known about FM rate selectivity compared with direction selectivity. In this study, FM rate selectivity was studied in the auditory cortex of anesthetized 1- to 3-mo-old C57bl/6 mice. Neurons w...

Background Myocardial blood flow (MBF) imaging in gene-modified mice may be used to elucidate molecular mechanisms that underlie coronary vascular function and dysfunction. First pass Gd-enhanced MRI is well-established in humans and has been recently investigated in mice[1-3]. The rapid heart rate and small size of the heart present challenges to performing quantitative first pass imaging in m...

The visual evoked potential (VEP) in the mouse is characterized and compared to responses obtained with the electroretinogram (ERG). The results indicate that: 1, the VEP originates in the visual cortex; 2, the rod and cone pathways contribute separately to the VEP; 3, temporal tuning functions for rod and cone ERGs are low pass and band pass, respectively; VEP tuning functions are both band pa...

In recent work, the all-pass transform (APT) was proposed as the basis of a speaker adaptation scheme intended for use with a large vocabulary speech recognition system. It was shown that APT-based adaptation reduces to a linear transformation of cepstral means, much like the better known maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR), but is specified by far fewer free parameters. Due to its line...