Six rainfall datasets are compared over the Amazon basin, Northeast Brazil, and the Congo basin. These datasets include three gauge-only precipitation products from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC), Global Precipitation Climatology Center (GPCC), and Brazilian Weather Forecast and Climate Studies Center (CLMNLS), and three combined gauge and satellite precipitation datasets from the CPC Merg...

The purpose of this study was to establish a sensitive and reliable method of diagnosing diaphragm paralysis by recording the diaphragm compound muscle action potential (CMAP) using a multipair oesophageal electrode and unilateral magnetic phrenic nerve stimulation. An oesophageal electrode catheter was designed containing six coils (1 cm wide and 3 cm apart), creating an array of four sequenti...

Electrophysiological and histological studies of peripheral nerve were performed in 24 Lewis rats with experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) in which disease had been induced by a single myelin and adjuvant inoculation in one footpad. Demyelination was demonstrated in transverse nerve sections from ventral roots, proximal sciatic nerves and also in distal plantar nerves. Histological and electro...

The basic mechanisms underlying acquired generalized muscle weakness and paralysis in critically ill patients remain poorly understood and may be related to prolonged mechanical ventilation/immobilization (MV) or to other triggering factors such as sepsis, systemic corticosteroid (CS) treatment and administration of neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBA). The present study aims at exploring the r...

OBJECTIVE The need for effective 'anti-ageing' treatments, in particular for the management of photodamaged skin, prompted us to develop a novel method to identify new active ingredients. The model utilized a gene profiling study with corresponding connectivity mapping (Cmap) to identify novel anti-ageing compounds using all-trans retinoic acid (RA) as the lead compound due to its beneficial ef...

Constructing Concept Maps (CMaps) allows students opportunities to: (i) create “meaning” (Novak 1998) about a concept; (ii) invest in their own personalized knowledge of a topic or reading, and (iii) develop team-building skills when working collaboratively (as they do in my classes). When these opportunities are provided in an iterative manner, students are exposed to an empowering learning ex...

Peripheral nerve disorder of the lower extremities causes drop foot and disturbs daily living activities patients. The ankle joint hybrid assistive limb (HAL) provides voluntary training using surface bioelectrical signals from muscles extremities. We investigated neurological effects HAL in three Sensory action potentials (SNAPs) compound muscle (CMAPs) were analyzed for peroneal tibial nerves...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to statistical modelbased voice activity detection (VAD) that incorporates a secondorder conditional maximum a posteriori (MAP) criterion. As a technical improvement for the first-order conditional MAP criterion in [1], we consider both the current observation and the voice activity decision in the previous two frames to take full consideration of the ...

To determine the variability of the abnormalities found in the electroneurography (ENG) of the facial nerve in cases of Bell's palsy during the initial two week period was one of the objectives of the authors. A second one was to investigate the value of ENG as a tool to determine an early prognosis of recovery utilizing two different methods. In the first one the amplitude of the compound musc...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the different localizing electrodiagnostic techniques of ulnar nerve entrapment at the elbow (UNE), particularly, comparison of the sensitivities of long segment stimulation across the elbow, versus short segment stimulation. METHODS Patients who were referred to the Neurophysiology Laboratory of Haydarpasa Numune Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey between ...