The relationship between changes in cerebral blood oxygenation and neuronal activity remains to be fully established. We compared somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and evoked cerebral blood oxygenation (CBO) changes in the sensorimotor cortex of the rat. In rats anesthetized with urethane and alpha-chloralose, we measured SEP and CBO using visible light spectroscopy (VLS) during neuronal ac...

To determine how the city-run New Haven syringe exchange program (SEP) expedited requests, for entry into treatment, records of the SEP's drug treatment coordinator were analyzed. During the study period, a majority of those requesting treatment did not use the SEP to obtain sterile syringes. Comparisons between the people requesting treatment and those exchanging syringes revealed that those r...

Blind source separation (BSS) is a promising method for extracting somatosensory-evoked potential (SEP). Although various BSS algorithms are available for SEP extraction, few studies have addressed the performance differences between them. In this study, we compared the performance of a number of typical BSS algorithms on SEP extraction from both computer simulations and clinical experiment. Th...

The words separation problem, originally formulated by Goralcik and Koubek (1986), is stated as follows. Let Sep(n) be the minimum number such that for any two words of length 6 n there is a deterministic finite automaton with Sep(n) states, accepting exactly one of them. The problem is to find the asymptotics of the function Sep. This problem is inverse to finding the asymptotics of the length...

Selenoprotein P (SeP) not only represents the major selenoprotein in plasma, but also provides more than 50% of the total plasma selenium. However, there is no report concerning the direct action of selenium or selenium-containing compounds on the contraction and relaxation of the airway smooth muscle. Therefore, we investigated the effects of SeP and sodium selenite (SS) on the indirectly indu...

UNLABELLED Successful somatosensory-evoked potential (SEP) monitoring has been performed during the administration of dexmedetomidine to patients, but a systematic investigation of the dose response of the SEP to dexmedetomidine has not been reported. In this study, we evaluated the effect of a range of dexmedetomidine doses on the cortical SEP in rats. Twelve rats were initially anesthetized w...

INTRODUCTION Measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) are widely used in health research. AIM To provide future researchers with empirically based guidance about the relative utility of five measures of SEP in predicting health outcomes. METHODS Data from 12,488 adults were obtained from the 2006 New Zealand Health Survey. Seven health-related outcome measures with expected variations by SE...

Computational, genomic, and proteomic approaches have been used to discover nonannotated protein-coding small open reading frames (smORFs). Some novel smORFs have crucial biological roles in cells and organisms, which motivates the search for additional smORFs. Proteomic smORF discovery methods are advantageous because they detect smORF-encoded polypeptides (SEPs) to validate smORF translation ...

This study examined the influence of childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) and social mobility on activity and fitness tracking from childhood into adulthood. In a prospective cohort of 2,185 Australian adults (aged 26-36 years), first examined in 1985 (at ages 7-15 years), self-reported physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness (subsample only) were measured. SEP measures included retro...

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate how socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with multidimensional measures of successful aging (SA), and how this varies and accumulates across the life-course. Method: Using data from 1,733 Scottish men and women from two cohorts aged around 57 and 76, respectively, we explored associations of SA, based on the Rowe–Kahn model, with 10 measu...