In the present study the effect of the cold pressor test (CPT) on the processing of electrical single pulses (SP) with changing amplitude and pulse trains (PT) with fixed amplitude was analysed using subjective pain ratings and evoked potentials. Healthy subjects were electrically stimulated at the left middle fingertip in a CPT and control protocol. In the CPT protocol the hand was immersed in...

Considering that the existing experimental limit for CPT violation is still poor, we explore various possible ways to test CPT symmetry in CP -violating B decays at e+e− B factories. We find that it is difficult to distinguish between the effect of direct CP violation and that of CPT violation in the time-integrated measurements of neutral B decays to CP eigenstates such as ψKS and π +π−. Inste...

Considering that the existing experimental limit for CPT violation is still poor, we explore various possible ways to test CPT symmetry in CP -violating B decays at e+e− B factories and hadron machines. We find that it is difficult to distinguish between the effect of direct CP violation and that of CPT violation in the time-integrated measurements of neutral B decays to CP eigenstates such as ...

The Continuous Performance Test (CPT) is a widely used measure of sustained attention, which is a preferred tool for assessing various mental functions. A well-established norm for CPT is essential when choosing a suitable threshold for classifying individuals as either case (CPT impairment) or non-case. The CPT performance of 900 adults who were randomly chosen from a community survey was meas...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the vasomotor function of human coronary collateral vessels. The purpose of this study was to examine collateral flow under a strong sympathetic stimulus (cold pressor test, CPT). METHODS In 30 patients (62 +/- 12 years) with coronary artery disease, two subsequent coronary artery occlusions were performed with random CPT during one of them. Two minutes before...

INTRODUCTION Cognitive training (CT) has been reported to improve cognition in older adults. Its combination with protective factors such as physical activity (CPT) has rarely been studied, but it has been suggested that CPT might show stronger effects than pure CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS Healthy older adults (aged 50-85 years) were trained with CPT (n=15) or CT (n=15). Interventions were cond...

BACKGROUND Transplant-associated coronary arteriopathy is manifested in its early stages by paradoxical coronary artery constriction in response to endothelium-dependent vasodilator stimuli such as the cold pressor test (CPT) and is a major cause of death or retransplantation. Estrogen has vasoactive properties that abolish coronary artery endothelial dysfunction in native hearts. We hypothesiz...

Neuropsychological tests target specific cognitive functions; however, numerous cognitive subcomponents are involved in each test. The aim of this study was to decompose the components of two frontal executive function tests, Go/NoGo (GNG) and cued continuous performance task (CPT), by analyzing event-related potentials (ERPs) of 24 subjects both in time and time-frequency domains. In the time ...

Penetration testing is one of the oldest methods for assessing the security of a computer system. The idea behind penetration testing methodologies is that the penetration tester should follow a pre-scripted format during test as dictated by the methodology. A penetration testing methodology was proposed in this research. It is also important to consider a policy that should be followed by both...

Penetration testing is widely used to help ensure the security of web applications. Using penetration testing, testers discover vulnerabilities by simulating attacks on a target web application. To do this efficiently, testers rely on automated techniques that gather input vector information about the target web application and analyze the application’s responses to determine whether an attack ...