Power spectral density is an accepted measure of heart rate variability. Two estimators of multifractal properties: Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima and Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis are used to investigate multifractal properties for the three strongly physiologically grounded components of power spectra: low frequency (LF), very low frequency (VLF) and ultra low frequency (ULV)....

Cable System Management requires an assessment of the health of the cable systems. It is increasingly common for the assessment of aged cable systems to be made through the application of diagnostics measurements. Papers and standards have established benchmarks for diagnostic measurements that help utility engineers to reach a condition assessment. Generally, extremes of healthy and non-health...

Methods: In 25 healthy volunteers (f= 12. m = 13. age 40 * 12 yrs.) we studied the influence of selective and unselective blockade of the autonomic nervous system on heart rate (HR) and HR variability (HRV). Data were recorded after an interval for rest lasting 20 min. and cardiovascular variables were observed to be stable. The examinations were performed in supine position, at constant room t...

[1] The ionospheric heating facility of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) has been used extensively in the last 3 years for injection of ELF/VLF waves into the magnetosphere via modulated heating of the overhead auroral electrojet currents. Of particular interest are waves that are observed to be nonlinearly amplified after interaction with hot plasma electrons in the E...

BACKGROUND Several reports have described that individual periodic leg movements during sleep (PLMS) activities are associated with autonomic nervous system activity occurring shortly before each PLMS activity. Nevertheless, no study has investigated dynamic changes of autonomic nervous system activity before the onset of PLMS. This study detected changes in heart rate variability (HRV) at the ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Heart rate variability (HRV) has been linked to mortality in maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients, but it is less clear whether HRV is associated with major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) and hospitalization. METHODS This study enrolled 179 maintenance HD patients. HRV was measured to assess its prognostic significance in relation to MACEs and hospitalization. RESUL...

OBJECTIVES To determine the relationship between obesity and cardiac autonomic nerve activity in healthy children. METHODS 16 healthy male children comprising of 9 nonobese and 7 obese subjects (body mass index > 19.1 kg/m(2)) aged 8-9 years were selected. Electrocardiograms were measured for 10 min. under controlled ventilation (0.25 Hz) in the supine position. Consecutive 256-second RR inte...

Two mathematical methods, the Fourier and wavelet transforms, were used to study the short term cardiovascular control system. Time series, picked from electrocardiogram and arterial blood pressure lasting 6 minutes, were analyzed Part of the results were reported at the 53rd Autumn Meeting of Italian Society of Physiology, 16-19 September, 2002, Ferrara, Italy. A short abstract was published i...

Previous work from our laboratory has demonstrated that the very low-frequency (VLF: 0-0.25 Hz) and low-frequency (LF: 0.25-0.8 Hz) power of arterial pressure variability (APV) are related to vasomotor reactivity in response to control signals from the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) via the sympathetic system in the rat. The present study evaluated the differences in the dynamic property ...

Recent reports suggest the presence of a rare fracture type for which reduction and fixation cannot be achieved with volar locking plate (VLP). In particular, it is difficult to achieve reduction and fixation with volar lunate facet (VLF) fragments present on the volar ulnar aspect of the lunate facet, because of the anatomical structure and biomechanics in this region. Herein, we report two ch...