Huntington's disease (HD) is a congenital, progressive, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive, motor, and psychological disorders. Clinical diagnosis of HD relies on the manifestation of movement abnormalities. In this study, we introduce a mathematical method for HD detection using step spacing. We used 16 walking signals as control and 20 walking signals as HD. We took a s...

Abstract Predators that hunt dangerous prey require specialized predatory tactics to avoid counter-attack. Usually, these reduce the probability of detection. The assassin bugs Stenolemus bituberus and S. giraffa rely on stealth or mimicry web-building spiders. Paradoxically, however, tap spiders with their antennae prior attacking, leaving vulnerable detection Here, we tested function tapping....

Reading-impaired children have difficulty tapping to a beat. Here we tested whether this relationship between reading ability and synchronized tapping holds in typically-developing adolescents. We also hypothesized that tapping relates to two other abilities. First, since auditory-motor synchronization requires monitoring of the relationship between motor output and auditory input, we predicted...

We propose in this paper a model for accounting for the increase in long-range correlations observed in asynchrony series in syncopation tapping, as compared with synchronization tapping. Our model is an extension of the linear phase correction model for synchronization tapping. We suppose that the timekeeper represents a fractal source in the system, and that a process of estimation of the hal...

INTRODUCTION Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a common in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients; especially in premature and low birth weight ones. Surgery is indicated when there is pneumoperitoneum. Other therapies include conservative observation or primary peritoneal drain (PPD). This study was conceived to evaluate peritoneal tapping, rather than primary peritoneal drain (PPD) as ...

Query by tapping (QBT) is a content trieval method that can retrieve a song by taking the u er’s tapping or clapping at the note onsets of the intended song in the database for comparison. This paper proposes a new query-by-tapping algorithm that aligns the IOI (i ter-onset interval) vector of the query sequence with songs in the dataset by building an IOI ratio matrix, and then applies a dynam...

background: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of two types of rehabilitation techniques, including aerobic and strengthening exercises on patients with knee rheumatoid arthritis (ra). methods: 48 male patients with knee ra were randomly assigned into 3 groups, including aerobic exercises, strengthening exercise, and control. the two first groups completed their treatment ...