A novel approachis describedfor the treatment of post-traumaticstressdisorder(PTSD). Eye-movementdesensitisation(EMD) requiresthe patient to generateimagesof the trauma in the mind and define physiologicaland emotionalarousalstates. While concentratingon these states, lateralmultisaccardiceye movementsare induced.Ten consecutivecasesare reportedwho presentedwith symptomsoriginatingfroma rangeof...

In this paper Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD)-based features from single-channel electroencephalographic (EEG) data are proposed for rat’s sleep state classification. The classification performances of the EMD-based features and some classical power spectrum density (PSD)-based features are compared. Supported by experiments on real EEG data, we demonstrate that classification performances c...

This study investigates phase relationships between electrocorticogram (ECoG) signals through Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), combined with Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). We perform spatial and temporal filtering of the raw signals, followed by tuning the EMD parameters. It can be seen that carefully tuning of EMD filter, it is possible to capture distinct features of non-stationary data. T...

Positive definite kernels are an important tool in machine learning that enable efficient solutions to otherwise difficult or intractable problems by implicitly linearizing the problem geometry. In this paper we develop a set-theoretic interpretation of the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD) that naturally yields metric and kernel forms of EMD as generalizations of elementary set operations. In parti...

Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is one of the most efficient methods used for nonparametric signal denoising. In this study wavelet thresholding principle is used in the decomposition modes resulting from applying EMD to a signal. The principles of hard and soft wavelet thresholding including translation invariant denoising were appropriately modified to develop denoising methods suited for ...

OBJECTIVES Although mnemonics are commonly used in medical education there are few data on their effectiveness. A RCT was undertaken to test the hypothesis that a new aide memoire, "EMD-aide", would be superior to the conventional "4Hs+4Ts" mnemonic in facilitating recall of causes of electromechanical dissociation (EMD) among house officers. METHOD "EMD-aide", organises causes of EMD by freq...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Recent in vitro studies indicate that enamel matrix derivative (EMD) could modulate the growth of periodontopathogens. The aim of the presented study was an analysis of the influence of EMD on the presence of Porphyromonas and Prevotella bacteria in the periodontal pockets of patients with chronic periodontitis in non-surgical periodontal therapy. MATERIALS AND METH...

Thiadiazinones are cardiotonic agents that have potent, direct, and stereoselective actions on the myofilament response to Ca2+ in intact myocardium. Their mechanism of action is unknown. We studied the effects of racemic thiadiazinone, EMD 53998 (5-[1-(3,4-dimethoxybenzoyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-6-quinolyl]-6-meth yl-3,6- dihydro-2H-1,3,4-thiadiazin-2-one), and its enantiomers on Ca2+ signaling i...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Emdogain (EMD), consisting mostly of amelogenin, is used in periodontal therapy to regenerate lost connective tissue. Emdogain is applied onto periodontally affected root surfaces, where it becomes exposed to proteolytic enzymes. In this study, we aimed to find out whether gingival crevicular fluid or matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) could degrade EMD, and whether this ...