Widget is not a new computing concept, but it has recently attracted much research interest because of its potential uses in a range of technological products/services. In assuming the challenge to develop an evaluation scheme for widgets/widget-based applications, some conceptual ambiguities about widget, especially its distinction from portlet, need to be clarified first. A survey aiming to c...

This paper, theoretically, examines concepts, propositions, and establishes the need for and develops an extension to Concept Maps (CMaps) called Cyclic Concept Maps (Cyclic CMaps). The Cyclic CMap is considered to be an appropriate tool for representing knowledge of functional or dynamic relationships between concepts. The Concept Map (CMap), on the other hand, is viewed as an appropriate tool...

[Purpose] To clarify the features associated with decrements in compound muscle action potentials (CMAP) during slow-rate repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) of muscles involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in mainland China. [Subjects and Methods] A retrospective study of decremental responses to slow-rate RNS was performed to compare patients with ALS to those with myasthenia gravis ...

Changes in conditioning mean arterial pressure (cMAP) selectively alter the set point of arterial baroreceptors and baroreflexes without affecting gain. Changes in smooth muscle tone at constant cMAPs shift the pressure-discharge curves of aortic baroreceptors in a similar manner. Using an in vitro preparation of the rat aortic arch, we tested whether near maximal changes in smooth muscle tone ...

Gene-set-based analysis (GSA), which uses the relative importance of functional gene-sets as units for analysis of genome-wide gene expression data, has exhibited major advantages with respect to greater accuracy, robustness, and biological relevance, over individual gene analysis (IGA), which uses log-ratios of individual genes for analysis. Yet IGA remains the dominant mode of analysis of gen...

We have compared the effects of 50% nitrous oxide and propofol, each administered concurrently with sufentanil, on the amplitudes and latencies of the compound muscle action potential (CMAP) response to transcranial electrical stimulation. Using a crossover design, 12 patients undergoing spinal surgery were exposed to both 50% nitrous oxide and propofol, the latter in a bolus-infusion regimen. ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to obtain data on interrater repeatability of the motor nerve conduction velocity (NCV) of the ulnar nerve of different segments, ulnar distal motor latency (DML), and compound muscle action potential (CMAP) amplitudes. DESIGN Twenty-four healthy volunteers were examined in consecutive order. Ulnar motor NCV of different segments, ulnar DML, and CMAP am...

Background and Aim: The present study aimed to use the median nerve Compound Muscle Action Potential (CMAP) amplitude by stimulation at palm instead of Abductor Pollicis Brevis (APB) needle Electromyography (EMG) for determining axonal loss in patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). Methods Materials/Patients: This was performed on 180 CTS referred Electrodiagnostic (EDX) Center, Poursina H...

Background: 5q-Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is one of the most prevalent neuromuscular diseases in our country, and still an important cause lethality, due to genetic disease, its severe forms. From a point view, it already known that number copies SMN2 gene drastically influences phenotype inverse relationship with severity disease. Several studies show reduction motor unit counts by differen...