shear modulus and damping ratio are important input parameters in dynamic analysis. a series of resonant column tests was carried out on pure clays and sand-clay mixtures prepared at different densities to investigate the effects of aggregate content, confining stress, void ratio and clay plasticity on the maximum shear modulus and minimum damping ratio. test results revealed an increase in the...

The blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal in functional MRI (fMRI) reflects both neuronal activations and global physiological fluctuations. These physiological fluctuations can be attributed to physiological low frequency oscillations (pLFOs), respiration, and cardiac pulsation. With typical TR values, i.e., 2 s or longer, the high frequency physiological signals (i.e., from respiration a...

Volumetric Space–Time Structure of Physiological Noise in BOLD fMRI Arno Solin, Simo Särkkä, Aapo Nummenmaa, Aki Vehtari, Toni Auranen, Simo Vanni, and Fa-Hsuan Lin Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Advanced Magnetic Imag...

Manuscript for The new handbook of multisensory processes, Barry Stein (Ed.).

Susceptibility-induced magnetic field gradients (SFGs) perpendicular to the slice plane often result in signal dropout in blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments. Two-dimensional (2D) z-shim methods reduce these effects by acquiring multiple images with different slice refocusing gradient areas. In this work a 3D z-shim method is introdu...

BACKGROUND To what extent is activity of individual neurons coupled to the local field potential (LFP) and to blood-oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)? This issue is of high significance for understanding brain function and for relating animal studies to fMRI, yet it is still under debate. RESULTS Here we report data from simultaneous recordings of...

the effect of cysteamine, a somatostatin depletor, on synaptic plasticity induced by tetanic and paired-pulse stimulation was investigated in rat hippocampal ca1. for this purpose, hippocampal slices from saline (1 ml/kg, s.c.) and cysteamine (200 fig/kg, s.c.)-treated and intact rats were used. population spikes were recorded following schaffer collateral stimulation. to induce ltp, primed bur...

Fast x-Ray dispersive spectroscopy allowed by the dispersive geometric shows three transitions in the kinetics of 5mM carbonylhemoglobin denaturation. The CO detachment at low pH(2.6) is preceeded by CO bending due to the protonation (pH-5.6), and later by protein unfolding (pH-3.3) Only a few detection systems have been achieved to compete the creditable performance of synchrotron radiation so...

Swine influenza (SI) is an acute, highly contagious, respiratory disease of swine caused by influenza A viruses. In addition, SI infections possess significant human public health concerns as they may serve as intermediate host for the generation of new pandemic viruses. Vaccination is still the primary method for the prevention and control of SI. Currently, commercially available vaccines agai...

The effective equation of state of normal matter and radiation is changed in theories where the size of the compact space depends upon the local energy density. In particular we show how the dilution of a fluid due to the expansion of the universe can be compensated by an increase of the effective coupling of that fluid to gravity in the presence of a potential which acts to reduce the size of ...