This study examines the effects of sleep on learning in a face identification task. Five groups of subjects performed a 1-of-10 face identification task in two sessions separated by 3, 12, and 24h. Session 1 consisted of four blocks of 105 trials each; Session 2 consisted of eight blocks of trials. All groups exhibited significant improvement in response accuracy within each session. Furthermor...

The purpose of this study was to examine changes in motor unit activity in the biceps brachii muscle after an initial (Bout 1) and repeated (Bout 2) session of eccentric exercise separated by 1 wk. Eight subjects (aged 22 ± 2 yr) participated in experimental assessments of neuromuscular function obtained before, immediately after, 24 h after, and 7 days after each exercise bout. Each experiment...

This study compared three different methods of teaching five basic algebra rules to college students. All methods used the same procedures to teach the rules and included four 50-question review sessions interspersed among the training of the individual rules. The differences among methods involved the kinds of practice provided during the four review sessions. Participants who received cumulat...

Autonomic disturbances are common non-motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Two Japanese men with PD performed three sessions of ergometer exercise each day. The first session involved conventional training the second session involved ergometer exercise in an upright posture, and the third session involved ergometer exercise in a supine posture. We measured the short-term he...

Background: A high-risk pregnancy can affect the psychological, social, and emotional conditions, feel afraid anxiety. Excessive anxiety trigger uterine contractions, abortion, hypertension that occurrence of preeclampsia. Hypnotherapy is one relaxation techniques are done by opening subconscious so all forms positive affirmations given therapist be absorbed properly. Techniques like this becom...

An adaptive transmission protocol is described and evaluated for use in wireless communication networks that employ dynamic spectrum assignment. The protocol interacts with a spectrum assignment system to select the modulation format and symbol transmission rate for each session. The power is adjusted during the initial part of each session, and code-rate adaptation is employed to compensate fo...