The topological recurrence algorithm provides a fast and robust method for detecting the presence of unstable periodic orbits (UPO's) in short, noisy experimental data files. We present here a technique for improving this method by using a matrix fitting algorithm to extract dynamical information about the system from these UPO's. This method greatly increases the sensitivity of the algorithm, ...

Todd paralysis (TP) is a relatively rare postictal phenomenon characteristic with weakness of the limbs in various degrees, following epileptic seizures. Since it is a reversible phenomenon in general, the reported duration of TP varies between half-an-hour to 36 hours. However, there is limited data in the literature about TP which persists more than 36 hours. On this aspect, we presented this...

* This investigation was supported by a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. I Bertani, G., and Weigle, J., J. Bact., 65, 113 (1953). 2 Adams, M. H., in Methods in Medical Research, Chicago, 1950. 3 Dulbecco, R., J. Bact., 59, 329 (1950). 4 Jacob, F., personal communication. 6 We wish to thank Ciba S.A., Basel, Switzerland, who put at our disposal the chlorohydrate of met...

The implementation of the World Health Organization's recommended strategies for polio eradication, particularly acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance, can be limited by difficult circumstances beyond the control of immunization personnel. In Cambodia, however, obstacles to establishing AFP surveillance were rapidly overcome using a strategy that improved reporting through active surveilla...

Over the past couple of decades there have been major advances in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Many applications have sprouted from these fields of research. It is essential, given the scale of the materials, to attain accurate, valid and reproducible measurements. Material properties have shown to be a function of their size and composition. Physiochemical properties of the nan...

NEITZ, W. 0., BOUGHTON, F. & WALTERS, H. S., 1971. Laboratory investigation on the life-cycle of the Karoo paralysis tick (Ixodes rubicundus Neumann, 1904). Onderstepoort]. vet . Res., 38 (3) 215-224 (1971). Detailed data on the rearing of three groups of Ixodes rubicundus ticks at different temperature and humidity levels are presented in a series of tables and figures . The differences betwee...

Dynamical control of excitable biological systems is often complicated by the difficult and unreliable task of precontrol identification of unstable periodic orbits (UPO's). Here we show that, for both chaotic and nonchaotic systems, UPO's can be located, and their dynamics characterized, during control. Tracking of system nonstationarities emerges naturally from this approach. Such a method is...

Detachment rhythms of immature Karoo paralysis ticks (Ixodes rubicundus) from their natural host, the rock elephant shrew (Elephantulus myurus), were investigated under laboratory and natural conditions. Larvae and nymphs detach mainly during the day. Peak detachment always occurred after the commencement of artificial as well as natural light cycles. The detachment of larvae appears to be more...

A new nonlinear dynamical analysis is applied to complex behavior from neuronal systems. The conceptual foundation of this analysis is the abstraction of observed neuronal activities into a dynamical landscape characterized by a hierarchy of "unstable periodic orbits" (UPOs). UPOs are rigorously identified in data sets representative of three different levels of organization in mammalian brain....

Chaotic diffusion on periodic orbits (POs) is studied for the perturbed Arnold cat map on a cylinder, in a range of perturbation parameters corresponding to an extended structural-stability regime of the system on the torus. The diffusion coefficient is calculated, using the following PO formulas: (1). the curvature expansion of the Ruelle zeta function; (2). the average of the PO winding-numbe...