Introduction:The overlap syndrome, consisting ofobstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) and chronic obstructvie pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major problem in COPD patients. OSHAS corresponds to the likelihood of systemic hypertension.The present study was aimed to evaluate the association between apnea-hypopnea index and diastolic blood presssure (DBP) in overlap  patients. Materials...

We recorded articulatory data to investigate the influence of consonantal coarticulation resistance on consonant-vowel timing in Polish onset clusters. While recent studies found different onset-vowel timing patterns depending on the position of the sibilant within the cluster, it is widely unknown how onset-vowel timing interacts with different degrees of coarticulation resistance of the vowel...

We propose an ultrametric breaking of replica symmetry for diluted spin glasses in the framework of RandomMulti-Overlap Structures (RaMOSt). Such proposal is closer to the Parisi theory for non-diluted spin glasses than the current theory based on the iterative approach. Our approach permits to formulate an ansatz according to which the Broken Replica Symmetry trial function depends on a set of...

This article tries to give some guidelines to optimize the 3G-2G and 3G-3G handovers, from the extracted experience of a real network in development. The purpose of the adjustment of the 3G-2G handover parameters is to offer the users with dual terminals a quality, equal or better than those ones with only 2G terminals, where in general, the 3G coverage is minor that the 2G one. On the other ha...

Test-retest reliability of individual functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) results is of importance in clinical practice and longitudinal experiments. While several studies have investigated reliability of task-induced motor network activation, less is known about the reliability of the task-free motor network. Here, we investigate the reproducibility of task-free fMRI, and compare it t...

Based on Fredrickson's ((1998). What good are positive emotions? Review of General Psychology, 2, 300-319.; (2001). The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. American Psychologist, 56, 218-226) broaden-and-build theory and Aron and Aron's ((1986). Love as expansion of the self: Understanding attraction and satisfaction. New York: He...

A discrete-time retrieval dynamics for a class of random-bond models with infiniterange interactions is studied in a unified picture. The Hopfieid model of neural networks with the Hebb leaning rule is considered together with the Ising random-anisotropy-axis model in the strong-anisotropy limit. The main overlap (magnetization), the residual overlap and its dispersion, as well s t h e correlat...