HYPERTENSION; THE ICE BERG

Howard Berg

to test whether termites of the Cryptotermes domesticus species might be able to discriminate between different sizes of wood. The team constructed experiments that presented termites with blocks of wood with a standard crosssectional diameter of 20x20 mm but of either 20 mm or 160 mm length. The insects were placed in a gap between the two faces of the timber blocks so that they were not able ...

Berg Literature Survey

My objective in this article is to add evidence for the belief espoused above regarding the two elds of (i) signal processing and (ii) control and estimation. I focus here on the interaction of specialties from (i), i.e., adaptive ltering, and (ii), i.e., adaptive identi cation and control. For evidence, I use three basic communication systems applications of adaptive ltering to evoke system id...

The 7th Leonard Berg Symposium, Part 3.

One question that pervaded the 7th Leonard Berg Symposium is whether dominantly inherited AD really is the same disease as the common late-onset forms that afflict some 35 million people around the globe, according to a recent report. “Can we generalize from FAD to all AD?” asked Martin Rossor of University College, London. The question is important in part because the interest drug developers ...

Modification of the Berg acid phosphatase test.

Brazilian version of the Berg balance scale.

The purpose of the present study was to translate and adapt the Berg balance scale, an instrument for functional balance assessment, to Brazilian-Portuguese and to determine the reliability of scores obtained with the Brazilian adaptation. Two persons proficient in English independently translated the original scale into Brazilian-Portuguese and a consensus version was generated. Two translator...