The purpose of this study was to investigate whether pre- to postoperative changes of increased signal intensity (ISI) of the spinal cord as seen on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reflect the surgical outcome in patients with cervical spinal cord injury without radiologic evidence of trauma (SCIWORET). In this study, 54 patients with SCIWORET who underwent expansive laminoplasty w...

This study examined, using the Concealed Information paradigm, whether interstimulus intervals (ISI) typically used for electrodermal measurement can be shortened. An ISI ranging from 16 s to 24 s (with a mean of 20 s) was compared with an ISI shortened by 50% using a within-participants design. It was demonstrated that this shortening had no effect on the differential skin conductance response...

The e!ects of positive and negative correlation, c, between (N"100) random synaptic inputs (each "ring at 100 Hz) on the mean and coe$cient of variation (CV) of interspike interval (ISI) of the Hodgkin}Huxley model are examined, for di!erent IPSP/EPSP frequency ratios, r. Mean (ISI) and CV are approximately constant (30}40 ms, and 0.75, respectively) under independence for r3[0,1], unlike the l...

AIM To compare the International Sensitivity Index (ISI) of the Thrombotest reagent used with a steel ball coagulometer (KC) to the ISI of the same reagent used with the manual (tilt tube) technique. METHODS The study was carried out by eight laboratories using their own KC instrument and method of testing. All laboratories used the same batch of Thrombotest to determine the clotting times of...

The contribution of the thromboplastin international sensitivity index (ISI) to the interlaboratory coefficient of variation (CV) of the international normalised ratio (INR) with individual reagents was assessed. In theory the precision of the INR should increase with lower ISI values. An empirical relation has been established between the ISI, the INR, and its CV for two rabbit thromboplastins...

Thispaperpresentsanoveldynamicelementmatching (DEM) technique for multi-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The proposed technique can address errors due to both static element mismatch and dynamic inter-symbol-interference (ISI). The proposed technique ensures no ISI-induced distortion even at large signal amplitudes by de-correlating the instantaneous number of DAC transitions from the s...

Recognition memory was tested for lists of 6 briefly (0.08 s) presented pictures at different interstimulus intervals (ISI) of 0.08, 1, and 4 s. Experiment 1 showed a 16% performance increase (ISI effect) for increasing ISI for travel slide but not kaleidoscope pictures. Experiment 2 showed that learning names for the kaleidoscope pictures then resulted in a substantial (20%) ISI effect, not at...

We examined the effects of interstimulus interval (ISI) and orientation changes on the haptic recognition of novel objects, using a sequential shape-matching task. The stimuli consisted of 36 wedge-shaped plastic objects that varied along two shape dimensions (hole/bump and dip/ridge). Two objects were presented at either the same orientation or a different orientation, separated by either a sh...

Filterbank precoding in the intersymbol interference (ISI) mitigation has recently attracted much attention. Two main areas of such research have been explored. One of them is on filterbank precoding when the ISI channel is known to both the transmitter and the receiver, while the other is on filterbank precoding when the ISI channel is not known to the transmitter or the receiver. This paper i...