s | 91 Methods: Forty-five right-handed patients with PD who met the diagnostic criteria in Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-V and twenty-two healthy control were examined by means of MRI at 3 Tesla. We used the FreeSurfer software package to create a three-dimensional model of the cortical surface for estimating the cortical thickness. In order to test the effect of the gene polymorphism ...

The aim of this study is to identify acoustic features of the two nasal codas, [n] and [U], that exist in Mandarin Chinese. Special attention was placed on the synthesis of nasal syllables with differing numbers of pole-zero pairs. First, appropriately selected nasal utterances were copy-synthesized from the spoken utterances of a native speaker of the language. The nasal utterances were copy-s...

BACKGROUND Physical activity is associated with better physical and mental health in older adults. Pole walking is a form of walking which may have additional health benefits in older adults, because of the addition of hand held poles, and consequent upper limb involvement. However, few studies have examined the potential additional effects of pole walking on physical and psychosocial health in...

The hydraulic bulge test can be used as a means to achieve large uniform plastic strains under biaxial stress conditions, applied to hardening curve determination of sheet metal materials. The larger information on hardening behaviour is the reason why a mechanical characterization system has been developed to determine stress-strain curve by reading bulge test variables: bulge pressure (p), ra...

This paper presents our rst eeorts at photometri-cally reducing new GSC-II measures of Palomar II plates (J passbands) with Tycho for a 625 square degree test eld centred on the North Galactic Pole.

Knowledge partitioning is a theoretical construct holding that knowledge is not always integrated and homogeneous but may be separated into independent parcels containing mutually contradictory information. Knowledge partitioning has been observed in research on expertise, categorization, and function learning. This article presents a theory of function learning (the population of linear expert...