 Abstract— Muscle fiber conduction velocity (CV) can be estimated by the application of a pair of spatial filters to surface EMG signals and compensation of the spatial filter transfer function with equivalent temporal filters. This method integrates the selection of the spatial filters for signal detection to the estimation of CV. Using this approach, in this study we propose a novel techniqu...

A simple, environment friendly and efficient technique, ionic liquid-based microwave-assisted extraction was first used to determine malachite green and crystal violet (CV) from water samples coupled to HPLC. The key parameters influencing extraction efficiency were investigated, such as the type of ionic liquids, the volume of ionic liquid, extraction time, and so on. Under the optimum conditi...

Percutaneous electrical stimulation of the trigeminal root was performed in 18 subjects undergoing surgery for idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia or implantation of electrodes into Meckel's cave for recording of limbic epileptic activity. All subjects had normal trigeminal reflexes and evoked potentials. Sensory action potentials were recorded antidromically from the supraorbital (V1), infraorbita...

We describe a sensitive method for measuring the concentration of the new antineoplastic drug ET-18-OCH3 in plasma. After plasma lipids are extracted, ET-18-OCH3 is separated from the excess of endogenous lipids by thin-layer chromatography and specific enzymatic hydrolysis of sphingomyelin by the action of sphingomyelinase. Analytical recovery after the complete isolation was 73.5% (CV = 9.8%,...

In order to choose correctly the dimension of calibration model in chemistry, a new simple and effective method named Ž . Monte Carlo cross validation MCCV is introduced in the present work. Unlike leave-one-out procedure commonly used in Ž . chemometrics for cross validation CV , the Monte Carlo cross validation developed in this paper is an asymptotically consistent method in determining the ...

Three concentrations of proficiency monitoring material and two concentrations of secondary standard calibrating material were prepared and stored frozen. The materials were prepared in buffer containing amylase from human saliva, aspartate aminotransferase from human liver, creatine kinase from human muscle, human serum albumin (20 g/L), and cofactors. The proficiency monitoring material was a...

BACKGROUND Emphysema patients with collateral ventilation (CV) will not benefit from valve therapy, the most common endoscopic lung volume reduction procedure. A recent randomized controlled trial (STEP-UP) of the alternative bronchoscopic thermal vapor ablation (BTVA) included patients with (CV+) and without interlobar CV (CV-). OBJECTIVES This analysis evaluated the efficacy and safety of t...

OBJECTIVES We developed and validated an interinstrument comparison method for automatic hematology analyzers based on the 99th percentile coefficient of variation (CV) cutoff of daily means and validated in both patient samples and quality control (QC) materials. METHODS A total of 120 patient samples were obtained over 6 months. Data from the first 3 months were used to determine 99th perce...

BACKGROUND Cystatin C is a new interesting marker of glomerular filtration rate (GFR). However, data regarding its biological variance are scarce and conflicting. The ability of cystatin C to longitudinally follow renal function in patients therefore remains questionable. METHODS 12 healthy subjects (6 men and 6 women) were included in the final statistical analysis. Serum creatinine, plasma ...

Models of risk-taking typically assume that the variability of outcomes is important in the likelihood of making a risky choice. In an animal model of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), within-session variability, or the coefficient of variability (CV), was found to be a novel predictor of behavior (Jentsch et al., 2010). Human studies have not investigated how BART performance differs when...