Almost all processes that are quantified in neurobiology are stochastic and nonstationary. Conventional methods that characterize these processes to provide a meaningful and precise description of complex neurobiological phenomenon may be insufficient. Here, we report on the use of the data-driven empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method to study neuronal activity in visual cortical area V4 of...

The thermal conductivity of molten NaCl and KCl was calculated through the Evans-Gillan nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) algorithm and Green-Kubo equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) simulations. The EMD simulations were performed for a "binary" ionic mixture and the NEMD simulations assumed a pure system for reasons discussed in this work. The cross thermoelectric coefficient obtained ...

The empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is applied to violence data from Afghanistan between 2006 and 2012. Several key behaviours are identified at distinct time scales ranging from days, through weeks to months, through months to a year, and finally spanning multiple years. The identified behaviour was compared to the traditionally-used multiplicative seasonal decomposition. Unlike seasonal de...

We report here on image texture analysis and on numerical simulation of fractional Brownian textures based on the newly emerged Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). EMD introduced by N.E. Huang et al. is a promising tool to non-stationary signal representation as a sum of zero-mean AM-FM components called Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMF). Recent works published by P. Flandrin et al. relate that, i...

Sparse representation has long been studied and several dictionary learning methods have been proposed. The dictionary learning methods are widely used because they are adaptive. In this paper, a new dictionary learning method for audio is proposed. Signals are at first decomposed into different degrees of Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMF) using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) technique. Then t...

REZUMAT STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF ENAMEL MATRIX DERIVATIVES ON EARLY WOUND HEALING. WHICH APPLICATIONS ARE EVIDENCE-BASED? Stefan-Ioan Stratul1, Darian Rusu1, Anton Sculean2 The goal of regenerative periodontal therapy is the reconstitution of the lost periodontal structures (i.e. the new formation of root cementum, periodontal ligament and alveolar bone). Results from basic research have pointe...

To test the hypothesis of a heritable base of ectopic ureters (EU) in Entlebucher Mountain Dogs (EMD) and to elucidate associated risk factors and mode of inheritance of the disease, 565 EMD were clinically investigated and population genetic analyses performed. Based on the location of the most caudal termination of the ureteral openings, 552 EMD were classified into three phenotype groups tri...

This case series evaluated the clinical performance and patient-centered outcomes after a minimally invasive surgical technique (MIST) associated with enamel matrix protein derivative (EMD), for the treatment of intra-bony defects. Twelve patients presenting teeth with probing depth >or=5 mm and bleeding on probing associated with radiographic evidence of intra-bony defect were treated by MIST ...

BACKGROUND Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, caused by EMD gene mutations, is characterized by humeroperoneal muscular dystrophy, joint contractures, and conduction defects and is often associated with sudden cardiac death, even without prior cardiac symptoms. OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical and molecular features of 2 patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy with mutations in EMD. ...

In this paper, we study the security of the Encrypt-MaskDecrypt mode of operation, also called EMD, which was recently proposed for applications such as disk-sector encryption. The EMD mode transforms an ordinary block cipher operating on n–bit blocks into a tweakable block cipher operating on large blocks of size nm bits. We first show that EMD is not a secure tweakable block cipher and then d...