Effective emotion regulation is essential for children's positive development. Polyvagal theory provides a framework for understanding how parasympathetic regulation of cardiac activity contributes to children's adaptive versus maladaptive functioning. Maintenance of cardiac respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) under social challenge should support emotion regulation and behavioral adjustment. Ch...

This technical note describes a robust version of moving averages, that enables reliable monitoring of the evoked potential (EP) signals. A cluster analysis (CA) procedure is introduced to robustify the signal averaging (SA). It is implemented via a Hopfield neural network (HNN), which performs selection of the trials forming a cluster around the current state of the EP signal. The core of this...

This article investigates the impact of the legislative powers of the European Parliament (EP), particularly the co-decision procedure. After explaining the development of the legislative procedures, the article analyses the extent to which the different procedures have been used since their creation. It then considers how growing legislative power has affected the EP’s internal development, ho...

We present a theoretical and numerical investigation of the effect of a timevarying external driving force on interface growth. First, we derive a relation between the roughening exponents which comes from a generalized Galilean invariance, showing how the critical dimension of the model is tunable with the external field. We further conjecture results for the exponents in two dimensions, and f...

The nuclear reaction Ne(p, γ)Na has been investigated in the astrophysical interesting energy region from Ep = 600 keV to Ep = 1400 keV. Furthermore several resonances of the reaction Al(p, γ)Si have been measured in an energy range of Ep = 400 keV to Ep = 1400 keV to determine the calibration and efficiency of the detector setup. The experiments and corresponding measurements have been perform...

In vivo electroporation (EP) has proven to significantly increase plasmid transfection efficiency and to augment immune responses after immunization with plasmids. In this study, we attempted to establish an immunization protocol using intradermal (i.d.) EP. BALB/c mice were immunized with a plasmid encoding HIV-1 p37Gag, either i.d. with the Derma Vax EP device, intramuscularly (i.m.) without ...

AIMS To establish the dose-response for pharmacodynamics (bronchodilatation), safety and pharmacokinetics for a nebulized formulation of the long acting muscarinic antagonist glycopyrrolate (EP-101) with a high efficiency nebulizer in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS Patients with moderate to severe COPD (GOLD II/III), with reversible lung function, were enr...

In this paper, we put forward a matching algorithm SMA between cloud computing services of multiple input/output parameters, which considers the semantic similarity of concepts in parameters based on WordNet. Moreover, a highly efficacious service composition algorithm Fast-EP and the improved FastB+-EP are presented. Then QoS information is utilized to rank the search results. At last, we show...

The pharmacological properties and subtypes of prostanoid receptors involved in the prejunctional modulation of [(3)H]norepinephrine release from sympathetic neurons were studied using isolated rabbit aorta. Rings preincubated with [(3)H]norepinephrine were washed with physiological salt solution that contained cocaine plus corticosterone, uptake(1) and uptake(2) inhibitors, respectively, and r...

Endophytic fungi are widely present in internal plant tissues and provide different benefits to their host. Medicinal plants have unexplored diversity of functional fungal association; therefore, this study aimed isolate endophytic associated with leaves medicinal Ephedra pachyclada evaluate growth-promoting properties. Fifteen isolated endophytes belonging Ascomycota, three genera, Penicillium...