How do the respiratory centres of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and hypercapnia respond to acute increases in inspiratory load? A depressed respiratory motor output has long been postulated, but studies on this issue have yielded inconsistent results, partly due to limitations of investigative techniques. Many of these limitations can be overcome by the twitch inter...

In this paper we demonstrate that valley-ridge inflection (VRI) points of a potential energy surface (PES) have dynamical influence on the fate trajectories underlying Hamiltonian system. These attracted attention chemists in past decades when studying selectivity problems organic chemical reactions whose landscape exhibits post-transition-state bifurcation region between two sequential saddles...

The current study examined the process of response initiation in a simple reaction time (RT) task using a startling acoustic stimulus (SAS), which has been shown to trigger a prepared movement through an involuntary initiation pathway. The SAS was presented within the RT interval (concurrent with, and 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 ms following the "go" signal), with the observed response latency use...

Abstract Current irrigation management zones (IMZs) for variable rate (VRI) systems are static. They delineated in the beginning of season and used thereafter. However, recent research has shown that IMZ boundaries transient change with time during growing season. The primary goal this study was to explore potential using vegetation indices (VIs) developed from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sat...

Understanding spatial and temporal dynamics of soil water within fields is critical for effective variable rate irrigation (VRI) management. The objectives this study were to develop VRI zones, manage rates examine differences in volumetric content (VWC) from events via sensors across zones. Five zones delineated after two years (2016 2017) yield evapotranspiration (ET) data collection. Soil pl...

Mirror movement (MM), or visible involuntary movements of a relaxed hand during voluntary fine finger movements of an activated opposite hand, can be observed in the hand that is on the unaffected side of patients with stroke. In the present study, we longitudinally examined the relationship between voluntary movement of the affected hand and MM in the unaffected hand in a single case. We repor...

The lack of inclusive housing in Australia contributes to the marginalization and exclusion of people with disability and older people from family and community life. The Australian government has handed over the responsibility of increasing the supply of inclusive housing to the housing industry through an agreed national access standard and a voluntary strategy. Voluntary strategies have not ...