Whereas previous studies on interlimb coordination have mainly underscored the ubiquitous tendency to synchronize the motions of the limbs, the present experiment revealed a small, but distinct, interlimb asynchrony or phase offset, i.e. the dominant limb led the non-dominant limb during the production of bimanual circle drawing. This asynchrony was clearly evident in the majority of right-hand...

Although the possibility of asynchrony between different components of the speech spectrum has been acknowledged, its potential effect on automatic speech recogniser performance has only recently been studied. This paper presents the results of continuous speech recognition experiments in which such asynchrony is accommodated using a variant of HMM decomposition. The paper begins with an invest...

This paper investigates the effects of two types of imperfection, namely detection errors and articulatory feature asynchrony, of the front-end articulatory feature detector on the performance of a detection-based ASR system. Based on a set of variable-controlled experiments, we find that articulatory feature asynchrony is the major issue that should be addressed in detection-based ASR. To this...

Abstract Key message We found that the stabilizing mechanisms for forest productivity varied across harvesting intensities in a mixed broad-leaved Korean pine forest. Effects of overyielding at high species richness and asynchrony occurred only unharvested lightly harvested plots, whereas asymmetries between individuals different size contributed significantly to when harvestings became intensi...

INTRODUCTION Adequate ventilatory support of critically ill patients depends on prompt recognition of ventilator asynchrony, as asynchrony is associated with worse outcomes.We compared an automatic method of patient-ventilator asynchrony monitoring, based on airway flow frequency analysis, to the asynchrony index (AI) determined visually from airway tracings. METHODS This was a prospective, s...

BACKGROUND Although cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves quality of life and survival for patients with heart failure, exact methods to estimate the effect of cardiac asynchrony have not yet been defined. METHODS AND RESULTS Initially, to examine whether the phase analysis images in the Fourier analysis using gated cardiac pool single photon emission computed tomography (POOL-SPEC...

BACKGROUND Patient-ventilator asynchrony is a common problem in mechanically ventilated patients; the problem is especially obvious in COPD. Neutrally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) can improve patient-ventilator asynchrony; however, the effect in COPD patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation is still unknown. The goals of this study are to evaluate the effect of NAVA and conventional...