For many years, nerve transfer has been commonly used as a treatment option following peripheral nerve injury, although the precise mechanism underlying successful nerve transfer is not yet clear. We developed an animal model to investigate the mechanism underlying nerve transfer between branches of the spinal accessory nerve (Ac) and suprascapular nerve (Ss) in rats, so that we could observe c...

In this paper, a new type of ac/ac converter is proposed. The proposed converter is capable of direct ac/ac power conversion and, except for a few small snubber elements, it does not require the use of any input inductors or a dc-link capacitor. In contrast to the matrix converter, which requires bidirectional switches, the proposed converter consists of only unidirectional switches such as ins...

The goal of the present study was to see whether one neuron is involved exclusively in one type of memory or in different types of memory. Single-unit activity was recorded from rat hippocampal CA1, CA3, dentate gyrus, and auditory cortex (AC) during performances of auditory working memory (WM) and reference memory (RM) tasks. Both the memory tasks employed identical apparatus and stimuli and d...

The problem of controlling induction motors, together with associated AC/DC rectifiers and DC/AC inverters, is addressed. The control objectives are threefold: (i) the motor speed should track any reference signal despite mechanical parameter uncertainties and variations; (ii) the DC Link voltage must be tightly regulated; (iii) the power factor correction (PFC) w.r.t. the power supply net must...

Abstract AIMS Evaluate how sensori-motor (SM) testing is performed in awake craniotomy (AC) the literature. Compare SM methods and their related outcomes. METHOD Literature search from 1995- 2019 OVID Medline, Embase, PsychInfo, CINAHL Web Of Science using all permutations of MESH terms “brain tumour” “awake craniotomy” “sensory” “motor” “testing”. 11671 articles were screened 28 included based...