Prestimulus oscillatory neural activity has been linked to perceptual outcomes during performance of psychophysical detection and discrimination tasks. Specifically, the power and phase of low frequency oscillations have been found to predict whether an upcoming weak visual target will be detected or not. However, the mechanisms by which baseline oscillatory activity influences perception remai...

The effect of task duration on odor discrimination in aging was studied. Twenty-seven young male adults and 24 young female adults between 18 and 30 years of age, and 17 older male adults between 45 and 65 years of age completed an odor discrimination task. The odor discrimination task consisted of two parts of 16 trials each in which, from three bottles consisting of two identical and one aber...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate whether social capital could alleviate health inequality against racial discrimination and identify the critical nature of social capital that generates health inequality differences within the social context of South Korea. METHODS Using the data of the 2009 National Survey of Multicultural Families, a nationally representative sample in which 40,430 f...

Neurons in macaque primary visual cortex (V1) show a diversity of orientation tuning properties, exhibiting a broad distribution of tuning width, baseline activity, peak response, and circular variance (CV). Here, we studied how the different tuning features affect the performance of these cells in discriminating between stimuli with different orientations. Previous studies of the orientation d...

OBJECTIVES EuroSCORE II has been implemented with the view to providing better performance than the previous logistic EuroSCORE. However, until now, no external validations have been carried out in the minimally invasive context. Therefore, we sought to validate the accuracy of EuroSCORE II in a retrospective series of consecutive patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. M...

The two-thirds power law describes the relationship between velocity and curvature in human motor movements. Interestingly, this motor law also affects visual motion perception, in which stimuli moving according to the two-thirds power law are perceived to have a constant velocity compared to stimuli actually moving at constant velocity. Thus, visual motion adhering to biological motion princip...

The antibiotic disk diffution (ADD) method was compared with the Biolog method in terms of power to discriminate soils and dimension of the discrimination. Soils from a forest and a citrus field in Thailand were profiled with these methods. These methods differentiated the soils in the principal component score plots. Then, Wilk’s lambda statistic was determined to estimate power of these metho...

In Wireless Sensors Networks, the computational power and storage capacity is limited. Wireless Sensor Networks are operated in low power batteries, mostly not rechargeable. The amount of data processed is incremental in nature, due to deployment of various applications in Wireless Sensor Networks, thereby leading to high power consumption in the network. For effectively processing the data and...

In this work, we have reformulated the selection of a few responding units tuned to patterns of activity from the Fourier spectrum as a multilayer system composed of four stages of di erent kinds of feature detectors. The system output is a sparse representation for images that produces an organization according to object power discrimination. The resultant multilayer system provides a more e c...