Sørensen used a slide-wire potentiometer to make his pH measurements. Here a known potential is applied to counterbalance the potential of the hydrogen cell (i.e. the hydrogen electrode plus the counter electrode) and to reduce its current output to zero, at which point the value of the applied counter-potential is equal to that of the cell potential. Since the point of balance is indicated by...

Neurodevelopmental disorders such as spina bifida meningomyelocele (SBM) are often associated with dysrhythmic movement. We studied rhythm discrimination in 21 children with SBM and in 21 age-matched controls, with the research question being whether both groups showed a strong-meter advantage whereby rhythm discrimination is better for rhythms with a strong-meter, in which onsets of longer int...

PURPOSE The goals of this investigation were to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of the Angioflow meter system with use of in vitro and in vivo methods and to compare it to the standard Transonics HD01 system in a clinical setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Angioflow meter system consists of a 6-F endovascular catheter and a laptop computer containing proprietary software for this applic...

Musicians often say that they not only hear but also "feel" music. To explore the contribution of tactile information to "feeling" music, we investigated the degree that auditory and tactile inputs are integrated in humans performing a musical meter-recognition task. Subjects discriminated between two types of sequences, "duple" (march-like rhythms) and "triple" (waltz-like rhythms), presented ...

Communication and co-operation processes in healthcare and welfare require the involvement of all parties involved, including health professionals as well as patients. Generally, professionals can and will easily communicate via trusted health networks. To enforce both communication and co-operation between professionals and patients and to guarantee the required degree of involvement of patien...

Context.\p=m-\Clinician-educators have concerns about their ability to be promoted and the criteria used by medical school promotion committees. Objective.\p=m-\To discover the criteria and methods that medical school promotion committees use to make decisions about the promotion of clinician-educators. Methods.\p=m-\In June 1996 we mailed a questionnaire to chairpersons of all medical school p...

We present a quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) investigation of the component dynamics in an aqueous Poly(vinyl methyl ether) (PVME) solution (30% water content in weight). In the glassy state, an important shift in the Boson peak of PVME is found upon hydration. At higher temperatures, the diffusive-like motions of the components take place with very different characteristic times, reveal...

In 2018, Solar Cycle 24 entered into a solar minimum phase. During this period, 11 million zenithal night sky brightness (NSB) data were collected at different dark sites around the planet, including astronomical observatories and natural protected areas, with identical broadband Telescope Encoder Sky Sensor photometers (based on Unihedron Quality Meter TLS237 sensor). A detailed observational ...

BACKGROUND Glucose meter performance is commonly measured in several different ways, including the relative bias and coefficient of variation (CV), the total error, the mean absolute relative deviation (MARD), and the size of the interval around the reference value that would be necessary to contain a meter measurement at a specified probability. This fourth measure is commonly expressed as a p...