Neurodevelopmental disorders such as spina bifida meningomyelocele (SBM) are often associated with dysrhythmic movement. We studied rhythm discrimination in 21 children with SBM and in 21 age-matched controls, with the research question being whether both groups showed a strong-meter advantage whereby rhythm discrimination is better for rhythms with a strong-meter, in which onsets of longer int...

Computational modeling has traditionally played an important role in dissecting the mechanisms for cardiac dysfunction. Ventricular electromechanical models, likely the most sophisticated virtual organs to date, integrate detailed information across the spatial scales of cardiac electrophysiology and mechanics and are capable of capturing the emergent behavior and the interaction between electr...

Ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) actuators have considerable potential for a wide range of applications. Although IPMC actuators are widely studied for their electromechanical properties, most studies have been conducted at the ambient conditions. The electromechanical performance of IPMC actuators at higher temperature is still far from understood. In this study, the effect of temperature ...

PURPOSE The goals of this investigation were to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of the Angioflow meter system with use of in vitro and in vivo methods and to compare it to the standard Transonics HD01 system in a clinical setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Angioflow meter system consists of a 6-F endovascular catheter and a laptop computer containing proprietary software for this applic...

Musicians often say that they not only hear but also "feel" music. To explore the contribution of tactile information to "feeling" music, we investigated the degree that auditory and tactile inputs are integrated in humans performing a musical meter-recognition task. Subjects discriminated between two types of sequences, "duple" (march-like rhythms) and "triple" (waltz-like rhythms), presented ...

Objectıves: Many systemic diseases including cardiovascular disturbances have been described in psoriatic patients. In the previous studies, left ventricul (LV) subclinical myocadial dysfunction was reported in the psoriasis patients. To evaluate the effect of psoriasis on left atrial (LA) functions, which is an important determinant left ventricular filling, atrial electromechanical coupling a...

A suspended, doubly clamped single-wall carbon nanotube is characterized at cryogenic temperatures. We observe specific switching effects in dc-current spectroscopy of the embedded quantum dot. These have been identified previously as nano-electromechanical self-excitation of the system, where positive feedback from single-electron tunneling drives mechanical motion. A magnetic field suppresses...

This paper is used to investigate a novel decentralized pole placement design method of lead-lag type power system stabilizers using hybrid differential evolution (HDE). Since the local speed deviations are used as the feedback signals, the stabilizers could be easily implemented. In the design procedures, it wants to place the electromechanical modes within a designated region in the complex v...

BACKGROUND Glucose meter performance is commonly measured in several different ways, including the relative bias and coefficient of variation (CV), the total error, the mean absolute relative deviation (MARD), and the size of the interval around the reference value that would be necessary to contain a meter measurement at a specified probability. This fourth measure is commonly expressed as a p...