BACKGROUND The UVB and heat rekindling (UVB/HR) model shows potential as a translatable inflammatory pain model. However, the occurrence of central sensitization in this model, a fundamental mechanism underlying chronic pain, has been debated. Face, construct and predictive validity are key requisites of animal models; electromyogram (EMG) recordings were utilized to objectively demonstrate val...

Abstract. Hydrological time series (HTS) are the key basis of water conservancy project planning and construction. However, under influence climate change, human activities other factors, consistency HTS has been destroyed cannot meet requirements mathematical statistics. Series division wavelet transform effective methods to reuse analyse HTS. they limited by change-point detection mother (MWT...

The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) among professional truck drivers has varied from 28 to 78% in previous studies. In this study we wanted estimate the OSA and with both subjectively measured sleepiness objectively ability stay awake (ie syndrome, OSAS) Finland. Altogether 2066 received a structured questionnaire. 175 had clinical examination laboratory studies, which included resp...

A multi-proxy approach was used to examine the geomorphic dynamics and environmental history of an upper deltaic floodplain tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. Three long cores were collected from the McCormack-Williamson Tract (MWT) and these cores were analyzed for bulk density, loss-on-ignition, fine (clay and silt) content, Al concentration, magnetic susceptibility, polle...

Objective(s): A novel IQ-SPECTTM method has become widely used in clinical studies. The present study compares the quality of myocardial perfusion images (MPI) acquired using the IQ-SPECTTM (IQ-mode),conventional (180° apart: C-mode) and L-mode (90° apart: L-mode) systems. We assessed spatial resolution, image reproducibility and quantifiability using various physical phantoms. Materials and Me...

Objective: Evaluation the effectiveness of two conservative treatments on quality of life in females with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Methods: 60 females (age 40–75) were randomized to a five-week treatment of extracorporeal shockwave therapy group (ESWT, n=30) or a kinesiotherapy group (KIN, n=30). At baseline and after the 5-weeks’ treatment, quality of life (WOMAC), pain (VAS), movement of the...

Multi-Worm Tracker (MWT) is a real-time computer vision system that can simultaneously quantify motional patterns of multiple worms. MWT provides several behavioral parameters, including analysis of accurate real-time locomotion speed in the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. Here, we determined locomotion speed of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) transgenic strain that over-expresses human beta-amy...

Aviators are required to maintain a high level of alertness during their missions. Two conditions that may disrupt this alertness are fatigue and hypersomnia. Fatigue is a physiological state, while hypersomnia is a pathologic state, also termed excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), which is manifested by the tendency to fall asleep in inappropriate places or situations, such as during flight or ...