Substantial evidence now suggests that a positive diversity–stability relationship exists. Yet few studies examine the facets of biodiversity contribute to this relationship, and empirical research is predominantly conducted on grassland communities under controlled conditions. We investigate roles species richness, environmental condition (vegetation cover), asynchrony, weighted population sta...

Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) affects adversely implantation following in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer. COH with gonadotropins alters endometrial receptivity and luteal function. In addition periovulatory endometrial characteristics in stimulated cycles are considerably different compared with the natural cycles, and periovulatory secretory transformation is consistently ...

An audio-visual speech synthesis system with modeling of asynchrony between auditory and visual speech modalities is proposed in the paper. Corpus-based study of real recordings gave us the required data for understanding the problem of modalities asynchrony that is partially caused by the coarticulation phenomena. A set of context-dependent timing rules and recommendations was elaborated in or...

Patient-ventilator asynchrony is common but under-recognized and under-reported. The frequency of PAV is reported around 23%, but up to 93% of patients have at least one episode of PVA. While sporadic asynchronies may have uncertain clinical impact, when they amount to more than 10% of the total breaths, PVA can increase the need for sedation and reduce sleep quality. In addition, they can impa...

Psychophysical experiments show that two different visual attributes, color and motion, processed in different areas of the visual brain, are perceived at different times relative to each other (Moutoussis and Zeki, 1997a). Here we demonstrate psychophysically that two variants of the same attribute, motion, which have the same temporal structure and are processed in the same visual areas, are ...

While spatial asynergy at end-systole has been well characterized in patients with coronary artery disease, assessment of regional asynchrony has been hampered by technical constraints. We developed a computer-assisted method for analyzing regional asynchrony from the equilibrium (ECG-gated) radionuclide ventriculogram. Twenty patients with normal contrast left ventriculograms (nine with a norm...

INTRODUCTION Occurrence of dynamic hyperinflation during upper-limbs exercises in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients it is not well established. We hypothesized that dynamic hyperinflation and thoracoabdominal asynchrony occurs in COPD patients accomplishing arms exercises. We assessed the occurrence and association of dynamic hyperinflation and thoracoabdominal asynchrony in...

BACKGROUND Abnormal thoraco-abdominal motion may contribute to exercise limitation in patients with COPD. The current study aimed to assess how the thoraco-abdominal asynchrony in COPD patients correlates with exercise performance during the 6-minute walk test (6MWT). METHODS Eighty-eight COPD subjects (40 moderate and 48 severe) and 14 healthy controls were evaluated at rest and during the 6...