Carla A. Scorza, Fulvio A. Scorza, Ricardo M. Arida, Esper A. Cavalheiro I Disciplina de Neurologia Experimental, Universidade Federal de São Paulo-Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP/EPM). São Paulo, Brasil. II Departamento de Fisiologia. Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP/EPM). São Paulo, Brasil. III Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais de São Paul...

Early perinatal mortality (EPM) was prospectively analysed in a rural District Hospital during a 4 month period. 2,171 deliveries were recorded with an early perinatal mortality rate (EPMR) of 53/1000. Factors significantly influencing EPM included maternal age, education, marital and socio-economic status. Antenatal care, gestation at delivery, birthweight, pregnancy and labour complications w...

The positive reinforcing properties of addictive drugs have a primary role in the development of drug dependence. In the field of opiates, great attention has been given to this phenomenon, as well as to the negative properties eliciting craving and inducing relapse during withdrawal. This study was designed to evaluate whether elevated plus-maze (EPM) experienced rats withdrawn from low doses ...

Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) is a neurosurgical procedure currently used as a surgical treatment of children with spasticity in their legs. In SDR, the dorsal roots from L2 to S1 or S2 is partially sectioned. The primary goal of SDR is to reduce spasticity and improve the range of movement with preservation of muscle strength. The dorsal roots involved in spasticity are identified on the ba...

Software radio architecture can support multiple standards running by reconfigurable software programs on the backend digital signal processor (DSP) With the advance in digital signal processing and digital communication techniques, software defined radio (SDR) becomes a reality. For an SDR with multi-protocol and/or multi-band capabilities, sample rate conversion (SRC) is an essential element ...

In 1999, AT&T participated in the ad-hoc task and the Question Answering (QA), Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR), and Web tracks. Most of our eeort for TREC-8 focused on the QA and SDR tracks. Results from SDR track show that our document expansion techniques, presented in 8, 9], are very eeective for speech retrieval. The results for question answering are also encouraging. Our system designed i...

The voice embodies three sources of information: speech, the identity, and the emotional state of the speaker (i.e., emotional prosody). The latter feature is resembled by the variability of the F0 (also named fundamental frequency of pitch) (SD F0). To extract this feature, Emotional Prosody Measurement (EPM) was developed, which consists of 1) speech recording, 2) removal of speckle noise, 3)...

It is difficult to fully satisfy the energy demand of today’s society with renewables. Nevertheless, most of the energy we use is lost as non-functional waste energy, whereas a large part of the built environment’s energy demand is only for low-quality energy, so the initial demand for primary, high-quality energy can be reduced by more effective usage, such as by low-exergy means. Gaining insi...

It has been shown that the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) of rats contains nitrergic neurons, which are activated during animal exposure to aversive stimuli. The BNST is also populated by glutamatergic and corticotrophin releasing factor (CRFergic) neurons, which in turn are activated under stressful situations. Here we investigated the anxiogenic-like effects of intra-BNST injectio...