Direct volume rendering has been an active area of research for over two decades. Transfer function design remains a difficult task since current methods, such as traditional 1D and 2D transfer functions are not always effective for all datasets. Various 1D or 2D transfer function spaces have been proposed to improve classification exploiting different aspects, such as using the gradient magnit...

OBJECTIVES To examine auditory cortical potentials in normal-hearing subjects to intensity increments in a continuous pure tone at low, mid, and high frequency. METHODS Electrical scalp potentials were recorded in response to randomly occurring 100 ms intensity increments of continuous 250, 1000, and 4000 Hz tones every 1.4 s. The magnitude of intensity change varied between 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8...

We study the amplification of information transfer in excitable systems. We show that excitable systems residing in a steady state near a bifurcation point to complex oscillatory behavior incorporate several frequencies that can be exploited for a resonant amplification of information transfer. In particular, for excitable neurons that reside in a steady state near a bifurcation point to ellipt...

Water tunnel experiments have been performed to examine how large scale, high intensity freestream turbulence affects heat transfer through a laminar flat plate boundary layer. Time-Resolved Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (TRDPIV) was used to examine the flow field along with timeresolved heat transfer from the wall. The surface heat flux was measured with a newly developed thin-film sensor...

Light propagation in multimode fibers is known to experience various nonlinear effects, which are being actively studied. One of the interesting effects brightness enhancement at Raman conversion beam graded index (GRIN) fiber due cleanup amplification and mode selective feedback laser cavity based on Bragg gratings (FBGs) with special transverse structure. It also possible explore random distr...

Second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detectors will operate at temperatures noticeably above room temperature. Study was done to determine what effect elevated temperatures would have on the Q and coating thermal noise of the detector mirrors. Results show that increased temperature increases loss angle in a manner that is more significant at higher frequencies. Trends show that...

iintroduction: repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) modulates the excitability of cortical neural networks. the effect of rtms on excitability of cortical networks depends on its frequency. according to the previous reports, a distinction is made between low (<1hz) and high frequencies of rtms. low frequencies of rtms inhibit seizure but high frequencies increase it. in the curre...

introduction: neural stimulation is a promising new technology for the treatment of medically-intractable seizures.  transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) is a simple, non-invasive, low cost technique which is widely used in neurophysiology. in a few studies that have been performed at different frequencies the therapeutic effects of this technique were not obvious. repetition of low frequenc...