We extended McMillan's Green's function method to study the equilibrium spin current (ESC) in a ferromagnet/ferromagnet (FM/FM) tunnelling junction , in which the magnetic moments in both FM electrodes are not collinear. The single-electron Green's function of the junction system is directly constructed from the elements of the scattering matrix which can be obtained by matching wavefunctions a...

Abstract Objective The Fugl-Meyer motor scale (FM) is a well-validated measure for assessing upper extremity and lower functions in people with stroke. FM contains numerous items (50), which reduces its clinical usability. purpose of this study was to develop short form the stroke using machine-learning methodology (FM-ML) compare efficiency (ie, number items) psychometric properties FM-ML thos...

Abstract. Let Fm be a free group of a finite rank m ≥ 2 and Xi, Yj be elements in Fm. A nonempty word w(x1, . . . , xn) is called a C-test word in n letters for Fm if, whenever w(X1, . . . ,Xn) = w(Y1, . . . , Yn) 6= 1, the two n-tuples (X1, . . . , Xn) and (Y1, . . . , Yn) are conjugate in Fm. In this paper we construct, for each n ≥ 2, a C-test word vn(x1, . . . , xn) with the additional prop...

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain and other associated symptoms including fatigue, insomnia, cognitive/memory problems, and even psychological distress. Duloxetine is one of three FDA approved medications (the other two being milnacipran and pregabalin) for the treatment of FM. It has been demonstrated that FM patients possess low central nervous system le...

BACKGROUND There is evidence for augmented processing of pain and impaired endogenous pain inhibition in Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM). In order to fully understand the mechanisms involved in FM pathology, there is a need for closer investigation of endogenous pain modulation. In the present study, we compared the functional connectivity of the descending pain inhibitory network in age-matched FM ...

OBJECTIVES Sleep disturbance is a common experience in fibromyalgia (FM). The field lacks a sleep specific patient reported outcome (PRO) measure developed and validated in a FM population. The study objective is to gain an in-depth understanding of sleep in FM and to develop a PRO measure of it. METHODS Research involved the following stages: 1) A literature review conducted to identify key ...

This paper investigates the performance of the T-distributions as compared to other well known time-frequency distributions in a recently proposed blind source separation algorithm based on timefrequency analysis. In this study we considered linear FM signals (chirps), non-linear FM signals, and doppler signals. Keyword:Blind Source Separation; Time-frequency representation; Doppler signal; Lin...

The aim of the present study was to compare the benefit of monaural versus binaural ear-level frequency modulated (FM) fitting on speech perception in noise in children with normal hearing. Reception threshold for sentences (RTS) was measured in no-FM, monaural FM, and binaural FM conditions in 22 normally developing children with bilateral normal hearing, aged 8 to 9 years old. Data were gathe...

Women with fibromyalgia (FM) often complain of whole-body pain, and muscle fatigue, which may be related to autonomic dysfunction. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of resistance exercise training (RET) on disease impact, pain catastrophizing, and autonomic modulation in women with FM. Women with FM (n=26) and healthy control women (HC: n=9), aged 19-65 ...

One hundred forty-six abdominally obese adults age 60-80 yr were studied to investigate the interaction between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and obesity on functional limitation. Obesity was determined by fat mass (FM), CRF was determined by a maximal treadmill test, and functional limitation was based on 4 different tasks that are predictive of subsequent disability. Both FM (r = -.34, p ≤ ...