INTRODUCTION Discrimination of stroke and stroke mimics is problematic in young patients. The aim of the study was to determine whether arterial ischemic stroke and stroke mimics can be differentiated via the red cell distribution width (RDW) value in young patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this retrospective cross-sectional study, a total of 236 patients hospitalized at the neurology ward we...

BACKGROUND In hemiplegic gait, step length typically differs in magnitude between paretic and nonparetic sides. However, the direction of step-length asymmetry varies across stroke patients. OBJECTIVE The study sought to understand directional variations in step-length asymmetry in terms of asymmetries in forward foot placement relative to the trunk and trunk progression. METHODS A total of...

[1] Using electric and magnetic field and field derivative sensors arrayed over an area of about 1 km, we measured the close fields of stepped leaders and first return strokes in 18 negative cloud-to-ground lightning flashes at distances to individual sensors ranging from about 100 m to about 1 km. We present examples of the close field waveforms along with their statistical characterization as...

Extracting perceptually meaningful strokes plays an essential role in modeling structures of handwritten Chinese characters for accurate character recognition. This paper proposes a cascade Markov random field (MRF) model that combines Preprint submitted to Elsevier 29 September 2009 both bottom-up (BU) and top-down (TD) processes for stroke extraction. In the lowlevel stroke segmentation proce...

The original, resolution-based Davis-Putnam satisfiability algorithm (Davis & Putnam 1960) was recently revived by (Dechter & Rish 1994) under the name “directional resolution” (DR). We provide new positive complexity results for DR. First, we identify a class of theories (ACT, Acyclic Component Theories), which includes many real-world theories, for which DR takes polynomial time. Second, we p...

[1] We present a statistical analysis of the salient characteristics of the electric and magnetic fields and their derivatives at distances of 15 m and 30 m from triggered lightning strokes that lowered negative charge to ground. Return stroke current and current derivative characteristics are also presented. The measurements were made during the summers of 1999 and 2000 at Camp Blanding, Flori...

The authors numerically and experimentally demonstrated highly directional emission from photonic crystals. This was achieved by first splitting the incident electromagnetic wave into multiple beams using photonic crystal waveguide structures. The beams were then emitted out of the surface of a photonic crystal with the same phase, which resulted in a highly directional radiation pattern. The m...

This paper presents multi-font/multi-size Kannada numerals and vowels recognition based on spatial features. Directional spatial features viz stroke density, stroke length and the number of stokes in an image are employed as potential features to characterize the printed Kannada numerals and vowels. Based on these features 1100 numerals and 1400 vowels are classified with Multi-class Support Ve...

Motor directional tuning (Georgopoulos et al., 1982) has been found in every brain area in which it has been sought for during the past 30-odd years. It is typically broad, with widely distributed preferred directions and a population signal that predicts accurately the direction of an upcoming reaching movement or isometric force pulse (Georgopoulos et al., 1992). What is the basis for such ub...

Crowding refers to the degradation of visual acuity for target optotypes with, versus without, surrounding features. Crowding is important clinically, however the effect of target-flanker spacing on acuity for symbols and pictures, compared to letters, has not been investigated. Five adults with corrected-to-normal vision had visual acuity measured for modified single target versions of Kay Pic...