Introduction: Fully refocused steady-state free precession (SSFP) is a fast imaging sequence offering high SNR efficiency. Extensions to SSFP such as fluctuating equilibrium [l] and linear combination SSFP [2] enable water-fat separation and immunity to off-resonance. Because of the volatile transient response during the approach to steady state, data acquisition is usually delayed until this t...

We evaluated a response-blocking procedure for reducing the self-injurious hand mouthing of 2 adults with profound disabilities. The procedure reduced mouthing in both cases. The results suggest research is warranted to delineate the behavioral process responsible for the effect of response blocking and to determine the procedure's long-term utility.

seismic ground motion is profoundly affected by geometrical and mechanical properties of soil deposits overlaying bedrock. local seismic ground response of saturated soil deposits was studied in literature by applying the effects of soil stress state and index properties on the strain-dependent normalized shear modulus reduction, g/g0, and damping ratio, d, curves in an equivalent linear analys...

Dimension reduction aims to reduce the complexity of a regression without requiring a pre-specified model. In the case of multivariate response regressions, covariance-based estimation methods for the k-th moment based dimension reduction subspaces circumvent slicing and nonparametric estimation so that they are readily applicable to multivariate regression settings. In this article, the covari...

The Sound Reduction Index of a partition can be measured according to the method described by ISO 140. This paper reports experimental results obtained with a new measurement method based on the determination of the impulse response in two rooms separated by the partition. In fact, it is possible to show that, by evaluating the Schroeder integral plot, we can calculate energy levels and reverbe...

The potential of sucrose to reduce the pain response in a group of healthy premature infants was investigated. Fifteen infants of 32-34 weeks postmenstrual age were tested in a blind crossover manner on two separate occasions no more than two days apart. Either 1 ml of 25% sucrose solution or sterile water was syringed into the baby's mouth 2 minutes before routine heel lancing. Response to the...

Control of civil engineering structures for earthquake hazard mitigation represents a relatively new area of research that is growing rapidly. Control systems for these structures have unique requirements and constraints. For example, during a severe seismic event, the external power to a structure may be severed, rendering control schemes relying on large external power supplies ineffective. M...

The exceedingly large size of fault dictionaries constitutes a fundamental obstacle to their usage. We outline a new method to reduce significantly the size of fault dictionaries. The proposed method partitions the test set and a combined signature is stored for each partition. The new approach aims to provide high diagnostic resolution with a small number of combined signatures. The experiment...

In this study, control performance of a smart base isolation system consisting of a friction pendulum system (FPS) and a magnetorheological (MR) damper has been investigated. A fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is used to modulate the MR damper so as to minimize structural acceleration while maintaining acceptable base displacement levels. To this end, a multi-objective optimization scheme is used t...

In this paper, we propose a useful algorithm that can be applied to reduce the response time of speech recognizers based on HMM’s. In our algorithm, to reduce the response time, promising HMM states are selected by single Gaussians. In speech recognition, HMM state likelihoods are evaluated by the corresponding single Gaussians first, and then likelihoods by original full Gaussians are computed...