The objective of this study was to examine the role of dopamine (DA) receptors in the nucleus accumbens (ACB) in controlling feedback regulation of mesolimbic somatodendritic DA release in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of Wistar rats using ipsilateral dual-probe in vivo microdialysis. Perfusion of the ACB for 60 min with the DA uptake inhibitor GBR-12909 (10-1,000 microM) or nomifensine (10-...

Orthostatic intolerance, one of the principle causes of syncope, can occur secondary to concomitant venous pooling and enhanced capillary filtration. We aimed to evaluate a prototype portable calf active compression brace (ACB) designed to improve orthostatic haemodynamic control. Fourteen healthy volunteers participated in a randomized, placebo controlled, cross-over, double-blind study. Testi...

.We present a new method for two dimensional complex linear-phase FIR filter design. It is based on a fast algorithm that computes an orthonormal basis in a very efficient way. The problem of least squares filter design is solved by projecting the desired frequency response onto the subspace spanned by that basis. Our design examples show that the proposed method is faster than the well-known l...

This note is a first attempt to perform waveform inversion by utilizing recent developments in semidefinite relaxations for polynomial equations to mitigate non-convexity. The approach consists in reformulating the inverse problem as a set of constraints on a low-rank moment matrix in a higher-dimensional space. While this idea has mostly been a theoretical curiosity so far, the novelty of this...

Efficient-Energy Coverage (EEC) has been a vital problem for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) due to inadequate energy utilization by non inheritable restriction of sensors effectively. So, scheduling of the activities of the devices in a WSN becomes imperative to save the networks' limited energy and lengthen its lifetime. This paper describes Ant Colony based Scheduling Algorithm (ACB-SA) appli...

Twenty patients with an acute spinal injury were prospectively studied to assess the clinical importance of antibody coated bacteria (ACB) in the urine and the association among the different bacterial species with a positive antibody coated bacteria test. Clinical urinary tract infection was associated with a positive ACB test on 45% of occasions. Three hundred and ninety nine urine samples co...

Femoral nerve blocks (FNB) can provide effective pain relief but result in quadriceps weakness with increased risk of falls following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Adductor canal block (ACB) is a relatively new alternative providing pure sensory blockade with minimal effect on quadriceps strength. The meta-analysis was designed to evaluate whether ACB exhibited better outcomes with respect to ...

Abstract. This study introduces a new approach to problem of estimating parameter(s) of a given copula. More precisely, using the concept of the generalized linear models (GLM) accompanied with least square method, we introduce an estimation method, say GLM-method. A simulation study has been conducted to provide a omparison among the inversion of Kendal’s tau, the inversion of Spearman’s rho,...