Adolescence is a sensitive period for the development of romantic relationships. During this period the maturation of frontolimbic networks is particularly important for the capacity to regulate emotional experiences. In previous research, both functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and dense array electroencephalography (dEEG) measures have suggested that responses in limbic regions are ...

We report a rare case of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) presenting with hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis (HCP), abducens nerve palsy, and stenosis of the internal carotid artery (ICA). A 59-year-old Japanese man presented with a year history of nasal obstruction and a 2-month history of slight headache. Histopathological examination of the granulomatous mucosa in the ethmoid sinuses...

OBJECTIVE The clinical significance of an intramural course (or bridging) of the coronary artery remains controversial. We investigated the relationship between intramural coronary arteries (ICAs) and coronary stenosis and prognosis of subjects with ICA. METHODS AND RESULTS ICA and coronary stenosis were assessed by multidetector computed tomography coronary angiography. ICAs in the left ante...

In this paper a new method is proposed based on the combination of ICA (Imperial Competitive Algorithm) and GA (Genetic Algorithm) which improves the convergence speed and accuracy of the optimization results. The new algorithm, which is named R-ICA-GA (RecursiveICA-GA), runs ICA and GA consecutively. It is shown that a fast decrease occurs while the proposed algorithm switches from ICA to GA. ...

Full-duplex communications systems that transmit and receive simultaneously suffer self-interference due to the mixing of transmitted signal weaker received at same node. The problem becomes compounded in Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems, where considerable overhead is dedicated training. In this article, we discuss using blind source separation techniques, namely Independent Component A...

Independent component analysis (ICA) aims to recover a set of unknown mutually independent source signals from their observed mixtures without knowledge of the mixing coefficients. In some applications, it is preferable to extract only one desired source signal instead of all source signals, and this can be achieved by a one-unit ICA technique. ICA with reference (ICA-R) is a one-unit ICA algor...

We recently showed that phosphoinositide-3-kinase–deficient (PI3K / ) mice have enhanced cardiac contractility attributable to cAMP-dependent increases in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca content and release but not L-type Ca current (ICa,L), demonstrating PI3K locally regulates cAMP levels in cardiomyocytes. Because phosphodiesterases (PDEs) can contribute to cAMP compartmentation, we examined w...

Traumatic intracranial pseudoaneurysms occurring after blunt head injuries are rare. We report an unusual case of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) caused by rupturing of the traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the internal carotid artery (ICA) bifurcation that resulted from a non-penetrating injury. In a patient with severe headache and SAH in the right sylvian cistern, which developed within 7 days after...

Permutation ambiguity of the classical ICA may cause problems in feature extraction for pattern classification. To solve that, we include a selective prior for de-mixing coefficients into the classical ICA. Since the prior is constructed upon the classification information from the training data, we refer to the proposed ICA model with a selective prior as a supervised ICA. We formulate the lea...

Imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) is a new socio-politically motivated global search strategy. The ICA is applied to hybrid composite laminates to obtain minimum weight and cost. The approach which is chosen for conducting the multi-objective optimization was the weighted sum method (WSM). The hybrid composite Laminates are made of glass/epoxy and carbon/epoxy to combine the lightness and...