AIM To determine the sites of adaptation responsible for improved stance stability after balance (=sensorimotor) training, changes in corticospinal and spinal excitability were investigated in 23 healthy subjects. METHODS Neural adaptations were assessed by means of H-reflex stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and conditioning of the H-reflex by TMS (Hcond) before and after 4...

Abstract. The health risks of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ambient ozone (O3) have been widely recognized in recent years. An accurate estimate PM2.5 O3 exposures is important for supporting risk analysis environmental policy-making. aim our study was to construct random forest models with high-performance daily average concentration maximum 8 h (O3-8 hmax) China 2005–2017 at a spatial r...

We bound the geodesic residual finiteness growths of closed hyperbolic manifolds that immerse totally geodesically in non-compact right-angled reflection orbifolds, extending work of the fourth author from the compact case. We describe a rich class of arithmetic examples to which this result applies, and apply the theorem to give effective bounds on the geodesic residual finiteness growths of m...

Solar sensor nodes equipped with micro-solar subsystems [1] provide a novel approach to harvest ambient energy, which partially alleviated the energy-limitation in traditional wireless sensor networks. However, it also poses new challenges that the amounts of energy harvested by nodes are dynamic and unbalanced among them thus network life cannot be necessarily prolonged if no well-designed ene...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to evaluate the long term clinical and electrophysiological outcome by recording the H reflex in a consecutive series of six patients treated by selective tibial neurotomy for spastic equinus foot. METHOD The amplitudes of Hmax reflexes, Mmax responses, and Hmax:Mmax ratio were recorded in six patients with chronic lower limb spasticity, before and after su...

Background: The disorder of reflex and motor function in patients affected by stroke causes negative impact on the performance of movement patterns and affects the functional activities. Objectives: To investigate the immediate effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and cryotherapy interventions on the spinal reflex excitability and in the voluntary electromyography (EMG)...