This paper examines filtering on a sphere, by first examining the roles of spherical harmonic magnitude and phase. We show that phase is more important than magnitude in determining the structure of a spherical function. We examine the properties of linear phase shifts in the spherical harmonic domain, which suggest a mechanism for constructing finiteimpulse-response (FIR) filters. We show that...

in the present study, the effects of intra-hippocampal microinjections of morphine (an opioid agonist) and naloxone (an opioid antagonist) were investigated in the formalin-induced orofacial pain in rats. orofacial pain was induced by subcutaneous injection of formalin (1 %, 50 μl) in the upper lip region and the time spent of face rubbing was measured in 3-min blocks for 45 min. formalin induc...

background: to investigate the status of the nuclear medicine (nm) centers in iran for the performance of dose calibrators, 18 out of 54 centers providing nm services in iran were randomly selected and inspected in 1997. in the first phase of the study the selected centers were inspected for performing of quality control (qc) tests of dose calibrators. the linearity of the activity response, pr...

Circadian rhythms possess the ability to entrain their internal phase to that of the environment. This ability relies on the phase response of circadian gene regulation to different environmental cues, of which light is the most obvious and important. Analyzing phase response of oscillatory systems requires the development of methods specific for these systems’ attributes, such as the period an...

background: potassium citrate (k‑cit) is one of the medications widely used in patients with urolithiasis. however, in some cases with calcium oxalate (caox) urolithiasis, the significant response to alkaline therapy with k‑cit alone does not occur. there is scarce published data on the effect of magnesium chloride (mg‑cl2) on urolithiasis in pediatric patients. this study aimed to evaluate the...

The estimation of glottal flow with inverse filtering requires typically subjective evaluation of the obtained flow waveforms by the experimenter. In this paper, we propose a straightforward method that yields an objective analysis tool to be used in the assessment of the quality of inverse filtered glottal flow estimates. The method computes the negative derivative of the phase response, the g...