We report experiments combining assessment of spatial tactile discrimination behavior and measurements of somatosensory-evoked potentials in human subjects before and after short-term plastic changes to demonstrate a causal link between the degree of altered performance and reorganization. Plastic changes were induced by a Hebbian coactivation protocol of simultaneous pairing of tactile stimuli...

Background: The purpose of this study was to explore whether consideration FIB levels might improve the predictive value ACEF score in patients with ACS. Methods: A total 290 ACS were enrolled study. clinical characteristics and MACE recorded. Results: Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that level (odds ratio=7.798, 95%CI, 3.44–17.676, P<0.001) SYNTAX ratio=1.034, 1.001–1.069...

Abstract Manufacturing companies must find competitive methods to produce products cheaper, faster and better to continuously satisfy their customers and acquire organizational success. For continuous improvement to be more successful, hybrid programs such as integrated TQM and JIT approaches give better results. As the existing TQM and JIT integrated approaches in literatures are not analogous...

What are the neural mechanisms underlying improvement in perceptual performance due to learning? A recent study using motion-direction discrimination suggested that perceptual learning is due to improvements in the "readout" of sensory signals in sensory-motor cortex and not to improvements in neural sensitivity of the sensory cortex. To test the generality of this hypothesis, we examined this ...

A newly developed 'double training' technique demonstrates that practice-dependent improvement in the discrimination of basic visual features will transfer to a location that has been trained with a different discrimination.

BACKGROUND B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) has been associated with short- and long-term postdischarge prognosis among hospitalized patients with heart failure. It is unknown if admission, discharge, or change from admission to discharge BNP measure is the most important predictor of long-term outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS We linked patients ≥65 years of age from hospitals in Organized Progr...

The study aimed to construct a risk prediction model for coronary artery disease (CAD) based on competing risk model among the elderly in Beijing and develop a user-friendly CAD risk score tool. We used competing risk model to evaluate the risk of developing a first CAD event. On the basis of the risk factors that were included in the competing risk model, we constructed the CAD risk prediction...

Current models of attention, typically claim that vision and audition are limited by a common attentional resource which means that visual performance should be adversely affected by a concurrent auditory task and vice versa. Here, we test this implication by measuring auditory (pitch) and visual (contrast) thresholds in conjunction with cross-modal secondary tasks and find that no such interfe...