Multimodality: Methodological explorations

Empirical explorations of mindfulness: conceptual and methodological conundrums.

This commentary reflects on the articles in this Special Issue. The appearance of this group of articles underscores the important idea that a major target of mindfulness practice is on emotion. Transformation in trait affect is a key goal of all contemplative traditions. This commentary addresses several key methodological and conceptual issues in the empirical study of mindfulness. The many w...

Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia

Multimodality Imaging for Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Severity Grading: A Methodological Review

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), defined by an increase in left ventricular mass (LVM), is a common cardiac finding generally caused by an increase in pressure or volume load. Assessing severity of LVH is of great clinical value in terms of prognosis and treatment choices, as LVH severity grades correlate with the risk for presenting cardiovascular events. The three main cardiac parameters f...

Multimodality Imaging

Noninvasive “multimodal” in vivo imaging is not just becoming standard practice in the clinic, but is rapidly changing the evolving field of experimental imaging of genetic expression (“molecular imaging”). The development of multimodality methodology based on nuclear medicine (NM), positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and optical imaging is the single b...

Explorations and Extensions of

In this thesis we further develop the theory of synchrony and Synchronic Modal Equivalencing (SME), as applied to models of power system dynamics. First, we extend the SME partitioning algorithm to include the grouping of load buses. The generalized eigenanalysis setup previously used for load bus grouping in slow coherency is adapted to the synchrony framework. The extended SME partitioning al...