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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"ongoing activity"”.
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Investigating Mechanisms In Nociceptors Driving Ongoing Activity and Ongoing Pain
<p>Ongoing (apparently spontaneous) pain at rest is a major complaint of patients suffering from many forms of acute and chronic pain, including acute and persistent postsurgical pain. Accumulating evidence suggests ongoing activity in nociceptors is a major driver of ongoing pain. Ongoing activity …
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Action and inaction in consumer and social contexts: the effects of prior and ongoing activity levels on intentions and decisions
… explores the effects of physical and cognitive activity levels—i.e., active and inactive behaviors—upon consumer judgments and decisions. I hypothesize that active or inactive conditions impact ongoing or subsequent, often unrelated consumer and social behavior through various psychological …
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The Impact of Cortical State On Neural Coding and Behavior
… to 80% of its energy budget is expended during ongoing activity in the absence of sensory input. Previous research has shown that sensory neurons are not exclusively influenced by external stimuli but rather reflect interactions between sensory inputs and the ongoing activity of the brain. Yet, …
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Predicting Children's Sociometric Status From Their Behavior
… of children to integrate themselves into the ongoing activity or conversation when entering a peer group and not to interfere or call attention to themselves was expected to be associated with their popularity. Second, the relationship between fitting into the group and popularity was expected …
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The Marking of Ambiguous Referents By Language Delayed/Learning Disabled Adolescents in a Narrative Task
… 5 television cartoons and asked to narrate the ongoing activity to a listener. The subjects' narrations were transcribed, and the percentages of 6 appropriately marked reference types were calculated for each subject and analyzed using a Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks. …
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Mediating disruption in human-computer interaction from implicit metrics of attention
… interrupted constantly, often disrupting their ongoing activities and impeding reaching their goals. This thesis presents a disruption reducing approach designed to support the user's goals and optimize productivity that is based on a model of the user's receptivity to an interruption. The model …
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Exploring Post-Secondary Autistic Young Adults’ Perceptions and Experiences of Coresidence with their Parents
… enrolment in a particular time and place, their ongoing activity and agency in their development, the importance of the connections with their family and friends, and the role of time and timings in their functionality in post-secondary. This study concludes with a discussion on both the …
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Sub-Tg̳, solid-state, plasticity-induced bonding of polymeric films and continuous forming
… This research has been conducted as a part of an ongoing activity at the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing at MIT.
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Business Cycle Models with Embodied Technological Change and Poisson Shocks
… there are no jumps. Secondly, R&D is an ongoing activity; there are no distinct phases of research and production. Thirdly, R&D expenditure is pro-cyclical and the real interest rate is counter-cyclical. Finally, long-run growth is without scale effects. The second part analyzes a RBC …
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The relation of spontaneous startles to cardiac and respiratory activity in newborn infants
… serve a homeostatic function by increasing the activity of the infant during periods of low arousal. The purpose of the current study was to examine the function of spontaneous startles using the ongoing cardiac and respiratory activity as indices of arousal. Twenty-six newborn infants were …
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A Role For Epac1 and Epac2 In Nociceptor Hyperexcitability and Chronic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury
… test, an electrophysiological measure of ongoing activity (OA), and analysis of the transient depolarizing fluctuations (DSFs) in membrane potential that contribute to nociceptor excitability.</p> <p>After SCI, we observed a significant increase in the incidence of SA, large DSFs, and OA …
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Behavioral Insights Into Nociceptor Function: A Systematic Approach to Understanding Postsurgical and Neuropathic Pain Mechanisms In Rats
… clinically common, and often associated with ongoing pain. Ongoing pain has been linked to ongoing activity (OA) in human C-fiber nociceptors. Preclinical studies using rodent neuropathic models have concentrated on allodynia driven by OA generated in non-nociceptive Aβ fibers, but little …
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Life on the Edge: Insights into the Neural and Behavioral Algorithms of Plume Tracking
… and spatial navigation. In particular, the ongoing activity of dopaminergic neurons of the mushroom body previously implicated in associative learning shapes edge-tracking behavior over multiple timescales and is necessary for continued pursuit of the plume. Moreover, compass neurons within …
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Spatio-temporal structure of thalamically evoked activity in the barrel cortex
… conveyed via thalamocortical pathways and ongoing activity thereby extracting the relevant details from spatio-temporal dynamic stimuli that carry information about the environment. In the course of this, the cortical response to the incoming information depends on the actual state of …
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Development of musculoskeletal models for the design and the pre-clinical validation of hip resurfacing prosthesis
… on modelling the musculoskeletal system; the ongoing activity is to develop subject-specific musculoskeletal models of the lower limb from medical images. Conclusions. The developed protocol was able to accurately predict known clinical outcomes when applied to a well-established device and, …
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Novel data-driven analysis methods for real-time fMRI and simultaneous EEG-fMRI neuroimaging
… and evaluate brain activations during their ongoing development. The possibility to track these activations opens the doors to new research modalities as well as practical applications in both clinical and everyday life. Moreover, the combination of different neuroimaging techniques, i.e. …