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 ...

In this report we describe a novel graphically oriented method for pathway modeling and a software package that allows for both modeling and visualization of biological networks in a user-friendly format. The Visinets mathematical approach is based on causal mapping (CMAP) that has been fully integrated with graphical interface. Such integration allows for fully graphical and interactive proces...

Sequential pattern mining algorithms using a vertical representation are the most efficient for mining sequential patterns in dense or long sequences, and have excellent overall performance. The vertical representation allows generating patterns and calculating their supports without performing costly database scans. However, a crucial performance bottleneck of vertical algorithms is that they ...

OBJECTIVE Prevalence of Martin-Gruber anastomosis, an anomalous median-to-ulnar forearm communication, is well reported in literature while Marinacci communication, the reverse of Martin-Gruber with a forearm ulnar-to-median communication is under-recognized. We systematically evaluated the presence of Marinacci communication in a series of patients referred for electrophysiological studies. ...

Large-scale cancer datasets such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) allow researchers to profile tumors based on a wide range of clinical and molecular characteristics. Subsequently, TCGA-derived gene expression profiles can be analyzed with the Connectivity Map (CMap) to find candidate drugs to target tumors with specific clinical phenotypes or molecular characteristics. This represents a power...