Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain given as intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) can induce long-term potentiation (LTP)-like changes in the stimulated hemisphere and long-term depression (LTD)-like changes in the opposite hemisphere. We evaluated whether LTP- and LTD-like changes produced by iTBS in acute stroke correlate with outcome at 6 months. We evaluated the...

To determine if a transient increase in uterine blood flow (BF) and estradiol-17 beta (E2 beta) secretion occurs during maternal recognition of pregnancy in ewes (as previously observed for sows and cows), 40 nonpregnant (NP) ewes were assigned in equal numbers to surgery on d 9, 11, 13 or 15 postestrus (d 0 = day of estrus). For 20 NP ewes (five/day), each uterine horn (UH) was flushed with sa...

Let M be a coadjoint semisimple orbit of a simple Lie group G. Let Uh(g) be a quantum group corresponding to G. We construct a universal family of Uh(g) invariant quantizations of the sheaf of functions on M and describe all such quantizations. We also describe all two parameter Uh(g) invariant quantizations on M , which can be considered as Uh(g) invariant quantizations of the Kirillov-Kostant...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the electromyographic (EMG) activity of smooth musc1es of uterine cervix (UC) and uterine horn (UH) in sheep during pregnancy and parturition in time/frequency domain and to recognize the differences between the two activities. The uterine electromyographic activity was recorded in eight sheep by electrodes, surgically implanted on UC and UH during pregnanc...

‖f(u)− f(v)‖−1 ≤ L‖u− v‖−1. We drop the dependence of f on x to emphasis the nonlinearity in u. Let Vh ⊂ H 0 (Ω) be the linear finite element space associated to a quasi-uniform mesh Th. The nonlinear Garlerkin method is: find uh ∈ Vh such that (2) Auh = f(uh) in Vh, where A : H 0 (Ω)→ H−1(Ω) is the elliptic operator defined by −∆. We shall assume the existence and locally uniqueness of the sol...

Endemic nosocomial Legionnaires disease has occurred at our medical center for several years. Two subtypes of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (UH-1 and RH-1) have been isolated in approximately equal numbers from hospital potable water. However, almost all clinical isolates have been UH-1. To assess potential differences in virulence, 50% lethal doses (LD50) and 50% infective doses (ID50) of...

New uniform error estimates are established for finite element approximations uh of solutions u of second-order elliptic equations Lu = f using only the regularity assumption ‖u‖1 ≤ c‖f‖−1. Using an Aubin–Nitsche type duality argument we show for example that, for arbitrary (fixed) ε sufficiently small, there exists an h0 such that for 0 < h < h0 ‖u− uh‖0 ≤ ε‖u− uh‖1. Here, ‖ · ‖s denotes the n...

Looking for words that might cue backchannel feedback, I did a statistical analysis of the interlocutors’ words preceding 3363 instances of uh-huh in the Switchboard corpus. No clear cueing words were found, but collateral findings include the existence of semantic classes that slightly increase the likelihood of an upcoming uh-huh, the fact that different classes have their effects at differen...