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Chapter 4 3D brainstem topodiagnosis – a voxel-based model analyzing MR imaging data
2006
Publisher Summary This chapter presents a new method of statistically based three-dimensional (3D) brainstem mapping to identify brainstem structures responsible for specific clinical and electrophysiological abnormalities. To ensure reliable correlations, a large cohort of patients with magnetic resonance (MR)-documented brainstem infarctions were recruited in two European neurological institutions—namely, the Department of Neurology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, and the Department of Neurological Sciences, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy. This method minimizes the risk of highlighting vascular territories rather than the structures specifically responsible for th…
On the computational aspects of a symmetric multidomain BEM for elastoplastic analysis
2012
The symmetric boundary element method (SBEM) is applied to the elasto-plastic analysis of bodies subdivided into substructures. This methodology is based on the use of: a multidomain SBEMapproach, for the evaluation of the elastic predictor; a return mapping algorithm based on the extremal paths theory, for the evaluation of inelastic quantities characterizing the plastic behaviour of each substructure; and a transformation of the domain inelastic integrals of each substructure into corresponding boundary integrals. The elastic analysis is performed by using the SBEM displacement approach, which has the advantage of creating system equations that only consist of nodal kinematical unknowns a…
Removing ocular artifacts from magnetoencephalographic data on naturalistic reading of continuous texts
2022
Naturalistic reading paradigms and stimuli consisting of long continuous texts are essential for characterizing the cortical basis of reading. Due to the highly dynamic nature of the reading process, electrophysiological brain imaging methods with high spatial and temporal resolution, such as magnetoencephalography (MEG), are ideal for tracking them. However, as electrophysiological recordings are sensitive to electromagnetic artifacts, data recorded during naturalistic reading is confounded by ocular artifacts. In this study, we evaluate two different pipelines for removing ocular artifacts from MEG data collected during continuous, naturalistic reading, with the focus on saccades and blin…
Type II keratin cDNAs from the rainbow trout: implications for keratin evolution.
2002
From a teleost fish, the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, we have cloned and sequenced cDNAs encoding five different type II keratins. The corresponding protein spots, as separated by 2D-PAGE of trout cytoskeletal preparations, have been identified by peptide mass mapping using MALDI mass spectrometry. Three of the sequenced keratins are expressed in the epidermis (subtype IIe), and two in simple epithelia and mesenchymal cells (subtype IIs). The IIs keratins are both orthologs of human K8. This leaves unsequenced only the trace component S3 of the biochemically established trout keratin catalog. A phylogenetic tree has been constructed from a multiple alignment of the rod domains of the …
Ethnographic Interventions: A Strategy and Experiments in Mapping Sociospatial Practices
2007
A growing awareness exists of the possibilities of architectural research adopting working methods used by artists. Many artists have adapted ethnographic methodologies to map site specificity and issues related to community and sociospatial practices. This paper draws on related examples of art practice to formulate a specific research strategy: ethnographic intervention. Ethnographic intervention has three characteristics: (a) ethnographic mapping of spatial practices on site, (b) the possibility of a horizontal replication of the study, and (c) an intervention protocol. We define ethnographic mapping as a critical process directed towards a specific cultural, social, or architectural sit…
Evidence-based programming language design : a philosophical and methodological exploration
2015
Background: Programming language design is not usually informed by empirical studies. In other fields similar problems have inspired an evidence-based paradigm of practice. Such a paradigm is practically inevitable in language design, as well. Aims: The content of evidence-based programming design (EB-PLD) is explored, as is the concept of evidence in general. Additionally, the extent of evidence potentially useful for EB-PLD is mapped, and the appropriateness of Cohen’s kappa for evaluating coder agreement in a secondary study is evaluated. Method: Philosophical analysis and explication are used to clarify the unclear. A systematic mapping study was conducted to map out the existing body of…
On an idea of Bakhtin and Czerwik for solving a first-order periodic problem
2017
We study the existence of solutions to a first-order periodic problem involving ordinary differential equations, by using the quasimetric structure suggested by Bakhtin and Czerwik. The presented approach involves technical conditions and fixed point iterative schemes to yield new theoretical results guaranteeing the existence of at least one solution.
MR3104897 Reviewed Mawhin, J. Variations on some finite-dimensional fixed-point theorems. Translation of Ukraïn. Mat. Zh. 65 (2013), no. 2, 266–272. …
2014
Inglese:The author presents an interesting discussion on three fundamental results in the literature and related theory: the Poincaré-Miranda theorem [C. Miranda, Boll. Un. Mat. Ital. (2) 3 (1940), 5–7; MR0004775 (3,60b)], the Pireddu-Zanolin fixed point theorem [M. Pireddu and F. Zanolin, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 30 (2007), no. 2, 279–319; MR2387829 (2009a:37032)] and the Zgliczyński fixed point theorem [P. Zgliczyński, Nonlinear Anal. 46 (2001), no. 7, Ser. A: Theory Methods, 1039–1062; MR1866738 (2002h:37032)]. The author provides generalizations of the last two fixed point theorems by using the original technique that he developed in a previous paper and the Poincaré-Miranda theor…
From Caristi’s Theorem to Ekeland’s Variational Principle in ${0}_{\sigma }$ -Complete Metric-Like Spaces
2014
We discuss the extension of some fundamental results in nonlinear analysis to the setting of ${0}_{\sigma }$ -complete metric-like spaces. Then, we show that these extensions can be obtained via the corresponding results in standard metric spaces.
Advanced earth observation approach for multiscale forest ecosystem services modeling and mapping (MIMOSE)
2014
In the last decade ecosystem services (ES) have been proposed as a method for quantifying the multifunctional role of forest ecosystems. Their spatial distribution on large areas is frequently limited by the lack of information, because field data collection with traditional methods requires much effort in terms of time and cost. In this contribution we propose a methodology (namely, MultIscale Mapping Of ecoSystem servicEs - MIMOSE) based on the integration of remotely sensed images and field observation to produce a wall-to-wall geodatabase of forest parcels accompanied with several information useful as a basis for future trade-off analysis of different ES. Here, we present the applicat…