BACKGROUND Cognitive dysfunction and changes in body composition share common pathophysiological pathways. The aim of the present paper was to evaluate whether changes in appendicular muscle mass (AMM) and fat mass (FM) are associated factors with an increased risk of cognitive dysfunction in community-dwelling older women. METHODS A nested case-control study was performed in 181 women aged 7...

The combination of ultrasound and microbubbles allows treatment indications that would be impossible or too risk adverse with conventional surgery. During treatment, subharmonic ultraharmonic components can only generated from are great interest for intraoperative monitoring. However, the microbubble emissions several orders magnitude lower in power compared to fundamental frequency component a...

Background: Antimicrobial medicine (AMM) utilization patterns and rational drug use are important topics in today’s world wrought with AMM resistance, irrational prescription of antibiotics, lack proper training such as stewardship programmes for medical graduates general practitioners. Our objective was to perform an audit the antimicrobial pattern, evaluate rationality use, a cost analysis th...

The first paper for this lecture [1] categorizes various options for supporting speculative multithreading in hardware, while the second [2] describes a way to implement it in software without specific architectural support. The class discussion covered the requirements and tradeoffs of software, hardware, and hybrid support for speculative multithreading. Thread-level speculation (TLS) is a wa...

We investigate the use of phonetic motor invariants (MIs), that is, recurring kinematic patterns of the human phonetic articulators, to improve automatic phoneme discrimination. Using a multi-subject database of synchronized speech and lips/tongue trajectories, we first identify MIs commonly associated with bilabial and dental consonants, and use them to simultaneously segment speech and motor ...

TheRADARSAT-1AntarcticMapping Project (RAMP) is a collaboration betweenNASAandthe CanadianSpaceAgency tomapAntarcticausing synthetic aperture radar (SAR).The first Antarctic MappingMission (AMM-1) was successfully completed in October 1997. Data from the acquisition phase of the 1997 campaign have been used to achieve the primary goalof producing the first high-resolution SAR imagemap ofAntarct...

Equations of motion for mean firing rate, fluctuation and synchrony have been derived with the use of the augmented moment method (AMM) for the generalized rate-code model including additive and multiplicative noise (H. Hasegawa, Phys. Rev. E 75, 051904 (2007)). We have investigated the response of a neuronal ensemble to three kinds of inputs: mean-driven, fluctuation-driven and synchrony-drive...

Land cover mapping provides spatial information on the physical properties of Earth’s surface for various classes wetlands, artificial and constructions, vineyards, water bodies, etc. Having reliable land is crucial to developing solutions a variety environmental problems, such as destruction important wetlands/forests, loss fish wildlife habitats. This has made become one most widespread appli...