the interactive effects of adjacent buildings on their seismic performance are not frequently considered in seismic design. the adjacent buildings, however, are interrelated through the soil during seismic ground motions. the seismic energy is redistributed in the neighboring buildings through multiple structure-soil-structure interactions (sssi). for example, in an area congested with many nea...

The mechanism of atrioventricular delay has been studied in isolated rabbit hearts. Multiple intracellular microelectrodes have been employed to obtain simultaneous records from single fibers of atrium, A-V node and His bundle. An appreciable delay in the transmission of excitation has been found only in the atrial portion of the A-V node. Action potentials recorded from single fibers in this a...

Scenario: This 12-lead ECG reading was obtained from a 76-year-old African American woman who presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath, fatigue, and a cough for the past month. Prior medical history includes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and cigarette smoking for more than 40 years. ECG PUZZLER A regular feature of the American Journal of Critical Ca...

Results Before the treatment, EEG recorded basic activity of low voltage (attenuation) of 20 μV, frequency of beta range (17-26 Hz), bioccipital, with no pathologic activity. Patient had prominent vegetative symptoms (anxiety, heart rate 100/min). Background activity immediately after the treatment records the amplitude values of around 50 μV, frequency of around 11-12 Hz. After the end of the ...

shear modulus and damping ratio are important input parameters in dynamic analysis. a series of resonant column tests was carried out on pure clays and sand-clay mixtures prepared at different densities to investigate the effects of aggregate content, confining stress, void ratio and clay plasticity on the maximum shear modulus and minimum damping ratio. test results revealed an increase in the...

background: we compared the wave amplitude of visually evoked potential (vep) between patients with esotropic and anisometropic amblyopic eyes and a normal group. methods: the wave amplitude of vep was documented in 2 groups of persons with amblyopia (15 with esotropia and 28 with anisometropia) and 1 group of individuals with normal visual acuity (n, 15). the amplitude of p100 was recorded mon...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of vertical prism induced stress on binocular visual evoked potentials. methods: using checkerboard stimulus patterns in two spatial frequencies (sfs) of 0.48 cpd as a low sf and 2.18 cpd as a moderate sf reversing with temporal frequency of 4 hz, the effect of increasing visual stress using vertical prisms of 0, 1, 2 and 3 prism diopters on binocular visual evok...