Auditory cortical activity is entrained to the temporal envelope of speech, which corresponds to the syllabic rhythm of speech. Such entrained cortical activity can be measured from subjects naturally listening to sentences or spoken passages, providing a reliable neural marker of online speech processing. A central question still remains to be answered about whether cortical entrained activity...

BACKGROUND High-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) has been utilized as a rescue oxygenation therapy in adults with ARDS over the last decade. The HFOV oscillating piston can generate negative pressure during the exhalation cycle, which has been termed active exhalation. We hypothesized that this characteristic of HFOV entrains CO(2) into the inspiratory limb of the circuit and increases...

A fundamental property of circadian clocks is that they entrain to environmental cues. The circadian genes, Period1 and Period2, are involved in entrainment of the mammalian circadian system. To investigate the roles of the Period genes in photic entrainment, we constructed phase response curves (PRC) to light pulses for C57BL/6J wild-type, Per1(-/-), Per2(-/-), and Per3(-/-) mice and tested wh...

In the vertebrate spinal cord, a neural circuit called the central pattern generator produces the basic locomotory rhythm. Short and long distance intersegmental connections serve to maintain coordination along the length of the body. As a way of examining the influence of such connections, we consider a model of a chain of coupled phase oscillators in which one oscillator receives a periodic f...

Tunnel fire smoke control is an important issue in the area of tunnel safety. Inspired by compartmentation buildings, it worth investigating whether a can be partitioned water mist system into zone and safety zones. If so, people move from safe through system. Obviously, essential question to examine what extent fire-induced heat blocked Thus, present paper, CFD simulations were conducted inves...

Submitted for the MAR14 Meeting of The American Physical Society Entrainment of a Synthetic Oscillator through Queueing Coupling1 PHILIP HOCHENDONER, WILLIAM MATHER, NICHOLAS BUTZIN, CURTIS OGLE, Virginia Tech — Many biological systems naturally exhibit (often noisy) oscillatory patterns that are capable of being entrained by external stimuli, though the mechanism of entrainment is typically ob...

In conversation, speakers have been shown to entrain, or become more similar to each other, in various ways. We measure entrainment on eight acoustic features extracted from the speech of subjects playing a cooperative computer game and associate the degree of entrainment with a number of manually-labeled social variables acquired using Amazon Mechanical Turk, as well as objective measures of d...