We present a patient with metastatic colon carcinoma who developed paraplegia following a neurolytic splanchnic block. A 41-year old man with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon received a splanchnic neurolytic block using alcohol because of severe abdominal pain. Bilateral motor weakness and a sensorial deficit in both legs developed after the procedure. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging...

This paper describes how IEEE 802.11b wireless networks can be used to determine the position of a robot inside a building. For this purpose we carried on some experiments which have shown that localization using only a wireless network as the only sensorial information (without a motion model) is not possible without a preconstructed sensorial map. But with the use of a motion model (easy to i...

Contractile and metabolic properties of bovine muscles play an important role in meat sensorial quality, particularly tenderness. Earlier studies based on Myosin heavy chain isoforms analyses and measurements of glycolytic and oxidative enzyme activities have demonstrated that the third trimester of foetal life in bovine is characterized by contractile and metabolic differentiation. In order to...

In this paper a novel sensory-motor neural controller applied to robotic systems for reaching and tracking targets is proposed. It is based on how the human system projects the sensorial stimulus over the motor joints, sending motor commands to each articulation and avoiding, in most phases of the movement, the feedback of the visual information. In this way, the proposed neural architecture au...

Sun protection creams were formulated with a commercial rosemary extract and with thermal waters from different springs in the Northwest Spain. A six month stability study was carried out and microbiological and chemical stability, as well as sensorial characteristics, were evaluated. In all creams, the mesophilic count always remained low (under 10 cfu/mL) and most of them showed greater antio...

This work presents the implementation and comparison of three different techniques of three-dimensional computer vision as follows: • Stereo vision correlation between two 2D images • Sensorial fusion use of different sensors: camera 2D + ultrasound sensor (1D); • Structured light The computer vision techniques herein presented took into consideration the following characteristics: • Computatio...

Current-voltage (I-V) characteristics in proteins are sensitive to conformational changes induced by an external stimulus (photons, chemical, etc.). This sensitivity can be used in medical and industrial applications as well as shedding new light on the microscopic structure of biological materials. Here, we show that a sequential tunneling model of carrier transfer between neighboring amino ac...

Among edible oils, olive oil shows important and outstanding characteristics due to its differentiated sensorial qualities (taste and flavor) and higher nutritional value. It is an important oil that is high in nutritional value due to its high content of antioxidants (including vitamin E) 1. Several health benefits, such as its ability to lower LDL cholesterol and its anti-inflammatory activit...

The grape juice by-product obtained from grape traditional press was extracted by Microwave Hydrodiffusion and Gravity (MHG); a green extraction technique preliminarily optimized at 1 W/g. The MHG extract (MHGE) was analyzed by HPLC for identification and quantification of anthocyanins and other phenolic compounds. Then, MHGE was added to the natural juice (NJ) to produce an innovative grape ju...

Attention is a key factor that influences learning processes and it is generally regarded as a success generating factor. Distributed attention has been shown to be very important in processing information and its integration in comprehensive knowledge areas. This research aims to directly test the distributed attention capacity of university students through a smart testing environment designe...