OBJECTIVE I sought to determine if a combination of acupuncture and guided imagery could augment the conventional medical management of moderately severe or severe asthma. DESIGN This was an early-phase study with a convenience sample of self-selecting patients compared with self-year before, during treatment, and one year after treatment. SETTING PATIENTS were recruited from an outpatient ...

Recent research findings indicate that with older adulthood, there are functional decrements in spatial cognition and more specially, in the ability to mentally represent and effectively plan motor actions. A typical finding is a significant over- or underestimation of one's actual physical abilities with movement planning-planning that has implications for movement efficiency and physical safe...

Article history: Received 13 April 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2014 Accepted 17 July 2014

This paper presents a new automatic framework for extracting and characterizing the dynamic shape of the 3D wetting front and its propagation, based in a sequence of tomographic images acquired as water (moisture) infiltrates in unsaturated soils. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the shape of the 3D wetting front and its propagation and progress over time has not been previously produced ...

[1] High spatial resolution thermal infrared satellite images acquired 38 minutes apart from Landsat ETM+ and ASTER were used to measure the surface currents and circulation in Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada, USA. Mean currents of 5–10 cm/s were measured, with maximum currents approaching 35 cm/s. The eastward transport of an upwelling surface jet was clearly apparent, with 15–30 cm/s currents. ...

Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we investigated the influence of long term musical training on the processing of partly imagined tone patterns (imagery condition) compared to the same perceived patterns (perceptual condition). The magnetic counterpart of the mismatch negativity (MMNm) was recorded and compared between musicians and non-musicians in order to assess the effect of musical trai...

a Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Centre, 3-12-1kachidoki, chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan – (kobayashi, kashimura)@ersdac.or.jp b Nikko Exploration & Development Co., Ltd., 2-7-10 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (maruyama, oyanagi)@tankai.co.jp c CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington WA 6151, Australia (ian.lau, Thomas.Cudahy)@csiro.au d Dept. of Agricultur...