BACKGROUND The use of total parenteral nutrition can affect liver function, causing a series of problems such as cholestasis. The aim of this meta-analysis was to compare structured triglyceride- (STG-) based lipid emulsions with physical medium-chain triglyceride (MCT)/long-chain triglyceride (LCT) mixtures in patients who had undergone liver surgery to identify any differences between these t...

The problems of self-timed behavior specification and verification are considered on the basis of an event model-Change Diagram (CD). The descriptive power of a CD model is demonstrated by comparing the CD with Signal Transition Graphs (STG). CD differs from STG by two types of causal relations (AND and OR) between events (in STG only AND-relation is presented). CD verification is shown to be r...

The mechanisms responsible for establishing correct target innervation during organ development are largely unknown. Sympathetic nerves follow blood vessels--typically arteries--to reach their endorgans, suggesting the existence of vascular guidance cues that direct axonal extension. The sinoatrial node and the ventricle of the heart receive sympathetic innervation from the stellate ganglia (ST...

The extent to which the auditory system, like the visual system, processes spatial stimulus characteristics such as location and motion in separate specialized neuronal modules or in one homogeneously distributed network is unresolved. Here we present a patient with a selective deficit for the perception and discrimination of auditory motion following resection of the right anterior temporal lo...

Abstract This paper presents a completely systematic design procedure for asynchronous controllers. The initial step is the construction of a signal transition graph (STG, an interpreted Petri net) of the dialog between data path and controller: a formal representation without reference to time or internal states. To implement concurrently operating control structures, and also to reduce design...

Previous studies have suggested that professional musicians comprehend features of music-derived sound even if the sound sequence lacks the traditional temporal structure of music. We tested this hypothesis through behavioral and functional brain imaging experiments. Musicians were better than nonmusicians at identifying scrambled pieces of piano music in which the original temporal structure h...

To better define the underlying brain network for the decoding of emotional prosody, we recorded high-resolution brain scans during an implicit and explicit decoding task of angry and neutral prosody. Several subregions in the right superior temporal gyrus (STG) and bilateral in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) were sensitive to emotional prosody. Implicit processing of emotional prosody engage...

This study presents an automated software crash-diagnosis technique using a state transition graph (STG) based on GUI-component detection. An STG is representation of the changes in application that are caused by actions executed GUI, which avoids redundant test cases and generates bug-reproduction scenarios. The proposed configures computer vision artificial intelligence technologies performs ...

The visual perception of words is known to activate the auditory representation of their spoken forms automatically. We examined the neural mechanism for this phonological activation using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with a masked priming paradigm. The stimulation sites (left superior temporal gyrus [L-STG] and inferior parietal lobe [L-IPL]), modality of targets (visual and auditor...

In this paper, a new approach for hardware verification using symbolic state transition graph (implemented in BDDs) is presented . We propose a novel idea, symbolic state transition graph (symbolic STG), which can represent FSM in terms of the relations between symbolic input variables, state variables, and output results rather than the ezact input-output bit patterns. Compared to the conventi...