Lapses, or misreporting errors, can affect accuracy of threshold measurements. Assumptions about lapse rate, especially in untrained observers, have consequently guided the design of at least one clinical psychophysical test. Lapse rate was assessed using a verbal letter identification paradigm like that used in visual acuity and letter contrast sensitivity testing. Subjects occasionally made s...

Monitoring morphogenetic processes, at high resolution over time, has been a long-standing goal of many developmental cell biologists. It is critical to image cells in their natural environment whenever possible; however, imaging many warm-blooded vertebrates, especially mammals, is problematic. At early stages of development, birds are ideal for imaging, since the avian body plan is very simil...

Time-lapse imaging is often the only way to appreciate fully the many dynamic cell movements critical to neural development. Zebrafish possess many advantages that make them the best vertebrate model organism for live imaging of dynamic development events. This review will discuss technical considerations of time-lapse imaging experiments in zebrafish, describe selected examples of imaging stud...

In situ visualization of c-fos mRNA was shown both in fixed cells and in living cells using bispyrene-modified 2'-O-methyl RNA probes (OMUpy2) or phosphorothioate modified OMUpy2 (OMUpy2-S), which was RNA-specific with high sensitivity, and a system for time-lapse imaging of c-fos mRNA was successfully developed.

NF-κB is a transcription factor that upon activation undergoes cycles of cytoplasmic-to-nuclear and nuclear-to-cytoplasmic transport, giving rise to so called "oscillations". In turn, oscillations tune the transcriptional output. Since a detailed understanding of oscillations requires a systems biology approach, we developed a method to acquire and analyze large volumes of data on NF-κB dynamic...

We perform an analytic late time analysis for maximal slicing of the Reissner-Nordström black hole spacetime. In particular, we discuss the collapse of the lapse in terms of its late time behavior at the throat and at the event horizon for the even and the puncture lapse. In the latter case we also determine the value of the lapse at the puncture. Furthermore, in the limit of late times slice s...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined whether dynamic day-to-day variations in self-efficacy predicted success in quit attempts among daily smoking adolescents. DESIGN A sample of 149 adolescents recorded their smoking and self-efficacy three times per day during 1 week prior to and 3 weeks after a quit attempt. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The first lapse, second lapse, and relapse after at least ...

Most of video recording posses the redundant information which does not require to be recorded, actual information to be record is very less as compared to information present in normal video. A differential time-lapse technique allows us to remove the unnecessary data from the normal video, in order to save the time to visualization and storage space. Differential Time Lapse Video is non-perio...

Abstract Adding noise to a sensory signal generally decreases human performance. However noise can improve performance too, due to a process called stochastic resonance (SR). This paradoxical effect may be exploited in psychophysical experiments, to provide additional insights into how the sensory system deals with noise. Here, I develop a model for stochastic resonance to study the influence o...

Time-lapse seismic data is used to monitor subsurface changes occurring between consecutive surveys. One way to look at the differences is to create images from each survey and simply subtract them to obtain a difference. It is possible to model image differences directly from the slowness change between two surveys: this leads to a forward modeling operator that essentially performs differenti...