BACKGROUND Myoclonic status epilepticus (MSE) is rarely found in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) and its clinical features are not well described. We aimed to analyze MSE incidence, precipitating factors and clinical course by studying patients with JME from a large outpatient epilepsy clinic. METHODS We retrospectively screened all patients with JME treated at the Department of Neurology, ...

The goal of this paper is to characterize the best achievable performance for the problem of estimating an unknown parameter having a sparse representation. Specifically, we consider the setting in which a sparsely representable deterministic parameter vector is to be estimated from measurements corrupted by Gaussian noise, and derive a lower bound on the mean-squared error (MSE) achievable in ...

Melinjo (Gnetum gnemon L.) seed extract (MSE) and its active ingredient gnetin C (GC), a resveratrol dimer, have been shown to possess a broad spectrum of pharmacological activities. In this study, we investigated the antitumor activity of MSE and GC using human and murine tumor cell culture models in vitro. The antitumor activity of GC was compared with trans-resveratrol (tRV), a stilbenoid po...

We describe our participation in the Multilingual Summarization Evaluation 2005. We describe the Columbia summarizers that were used in our submission and discuss the evaluation, drawing conclusions about the performance of our summarizers, discussing the state of multilingual summarization in general and also listing issues that need consideration for future evaluations.

Sieve electrodes provide a chronic interface for stimulating peripheral nerve axons. Yet, successful utilization requires robust axonal regeneration through the implanted electrode. The present study determined the effect of large transit zones in enhancing axonal regeneration and revealed an intimate neural interface with an implanted sieve electrode. Fabrication of the polyimide sieve electro...

Since introduced in early 2000, multiscale entropy (MSE) has found many applications in biosignal analysis, and been extended to multivariate MSE. So far, however, no analytic results for MSE or multivariate MSE have been reported. This has severely limited our basic understanding of MSE. For example, it has not been studied whether MSE estimated using default parameter values and short data se...

We consider the classical problem of missing-mass estimation, which deals with estimating total probability unseen elements in a sample. The estimation has various applications machine learning, statistics, language processing, ecology, sensor networks, and others. naive, constrained maximum likelihood (CML) estimator is inappropriate for this since it tends to overestimate observed elements. S...

BACKGROUND Memory self-efficacy (MSE) is the belief about one's mastery of memory functioning. In healthy elderly, memory complaints are related to MSE rather than to objectively measured memory capacity. MSE has scarcely been studied in patients that suffered a stroke. The aim of this study was twofold: (1) to examine whether memory capacity and MSE can predict the presence of memory complaint...

To the web user, a Meta Search Engine (MSE) appears much like a regular search engine (SE). MSE, unlike an SE does not have an index. Instead, it dynamically queries multiple search engines; extracts, fuses and re-ranks results and presents to users. Generally, an MSE is developed from scratch even if the focus is on improving fusion ranking, query modification or domain specific search. This p...

AIM Resveratrol is a popular ingredient in dietary supplements. Some patients concomitantly use dietary supplements and medicines in Japan. In the present study, we determined whether trans-resveratrol and melinjo (Gnetum gnemon L.) seed extract (MSE), which contains resveratrol dimers, interacted with drugs using a mouse model. METHODS Male C57BL/6J mice were fed experimental diets containin...