Cardiopulmonary exercise testing—a beginner’s guide to the nine-panel plot

Absolute Beginners Guide to Neuroimaging Methods : fMRI

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the primary means used to measure brain function non-invasively in humans, because of the advantages it offers in terms of high spatiotemporal resolution and localization as compared to other non-invasive modalities (e.g. EEG, MEG). Since its emergence about 20 years ago, it has rapidly evolved into the mainstay of functional neuroimaging for neur...

A Beginners Guide to Decentralised Data Fusion

A clinician's guide to cardiopulmonary exercise testing 1: an introduction.

Compared to standard exercise tolerance testing, cardiopulmonary exercise testing is a reliable and powerful tool that can be used for risk stratification, exercise prescription and clinical diagnosis.

A Beginners Guide to Dual-Quaternions

In this paper, we give a beginners guide to the practicality of using dual-quaternions to represent the rotations and translations in character-based hierarchies. Quaternions have proven themselves in many fields of science and computing as providing an unambiguous, un-cumbersome, computationally efficient method of representing rotational information. We hope after reading this paper the reade...

A Beginners Guide to UML Part I

This article will attempt to provide a fast track introduction for those that need to learn the UML basics and to begin to start understanding UML so that it can be incorporated into your development project. I shall begin by clarifying exactly what UML is and is not. Then question why we should use the UML at all. Then I will conclude part 1 of this article with a high-level tour of the UML mo...