... subjects who gained weight during the study, insulin resistance increased suggesting that changes in insulin sensitivity induced by CPAP in this setting are mainly determined by changes in body weight ... http://respiratory-research.com/content/12/1/80 in its regulation including changes in insulin sensitivity Insulin administration has been shown to suppress circulating ghrelin levels in some [31] but not all studies [32] Plasma insulin ... levels and insulin resistance correlate inversely with ghrelin This association was BMIindependent in some studies [33] However in a study using euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp method, insulin sensitivity...
... refer to as “training” instances In the equations below, we denote individual training instances by X, and the sum over all the training instances by X Since individual training instances are ... Likelihood Linear Regression 11.4.3 CMLLR Implementation 11.4.4 Speaker Adaptive Training Discriminative Training 11.5.1 MMI Discriminative Training Criterion 11.5.2 MPE Discriminative Training Criterion ... as a terminal nonemitting state Other ways of composing the HMM for the word, which eliminate the internal nonemitting states, are also possible systems For instance, HMMs for words in a language...
... receiver [11-13] For example, zero-forcing (ZF) beamforming for interference cancellation has been shown to increase the capacity of ad-hoc networks [14] Beamforming is indeed a promising approach ... challenge lies then in acquiring the channel and synchronization information in such a decentralized network without change in the MAC protocol In this paper, we show how beamforming techniques can ... (TXOP) are allocated in the future Because each STA advertises its reserved TXOPs, both the CSI and the timing information for enabling beamforming may be obtained A Beaconing and synchronization...
... Scientist Researcher His main interests include UMTS radio network planning and development of cellular location techniques Jukka Lempi¨ inen was born in Helsinki, a Finland, in 1968 He received the ... exploited for combining RTT information measured by all NodeBs in the AS (active set), thus improving the overall Cell ID+RTT accuracy According to regular SHO procedure [35], the radio link is ... constituting a performance measure in respect to the ith NodeB, as expressed in (2) The penalty function is introduced in order to form an applicable solution by employing an unconstrained LS...
... technical methods for cultivating soybean contributed on cultivation guideline improvement for soybean intensive farming in winter and spring in Thai Nguyen - The using new and high yielding variety ... Experiment 4: Determining the planting density of soybean variety 99084 A28 in spring and winter crops in 2007 - 2008 in Thai Nguyen a/ Time and place: In spring and winter crops in 2007 - 2008 at ... tons/ha in module in winter and 2.83 tons/ha in spring) In Vo Nhai district, the yield module were 2.55 tons/ha in winter and 2.67 tons/ha in spring, the lowest yield in Phu Luong district in module...
... decline in mean sleep quality from the daily peak forsleep initiated at 00:00–02:00 h to the daily minimum forsleep initiated at 10:00–12:00 h, and a general increase insleep quality forsleep ... Production of melatonin during each day's main sleep period was inferred from urinary 6-sulphatoxymelatonin (aMT6s) excretion rates All urine passed during a main sleep period was collected in a plastic ... sleep begins in the late evening and lowest when sleep begins in the middle of the day In the current study, both sleep duration and subjective sleep quality varied depending on the time of sleep...
... patients resulting in the rise of plasma norepinephrine and epinephrine levels [25-27] may perhaps be responsible in the insignificant changes between evening and morning blood LBCL in OSAS patients ... Therefore, evening results served as reference values designed for morning data, presumably affected by apnea/ hypopnea episodes in addition to subsequent IH during sleep LBCL as a measure of resting ... following a preliminary diagnosis of OSAS The remaining 22, previously diagnosed with OSAS met indication for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment The inclusion criteria incorporated...
... Sleep Medicine Task Force: Sleep- Related Breathing Disorders in Adults: Recommendations for Syndrome Definition and Measurement Techniquesin Clinical Research Sleep 1999, 22:667-689 Guilleminault ... Guilleminault C: Sleep and breathing In Sleeping and waking disorders: indications and techniques Edited by: Guilleminault C MenloPark, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing; 1982:155-182 Guilleminault C, Stoohs ... patients suffering OSAS Methods A thorough review of the relevant literature linking obstructivesleepapnea with cephalometric analysis was performed The literature search was carried out using PubMed,...
... 0.08 0.28 Therapy in patients with OSA, indicating a causative role of OSA in the inflammatory process Since inflammation might play a central role in renarrowing of the vessels in OSA patients, ... 105(21):2462-2464 Yokoe T, Minoguchi K, Matsuo H, Oda N, Minoguchi H, Yoshino G, Hirano T, Adachi M: Elevated levels of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 in patients with obstructivesleepapnea syndrome ... Martin; 1997:215-232 Yumino D, Tsurumi Y, Takagi A, Suzuki K, Kasanuki H: Impact of obstructivesleepapnea on clinical and angiographic outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention in...
... III Modified portable sleepapnea testing Minimum of 7, including EEG, EOG, chin EMG, ECG or heart rate, airflow, respiratory effort, oxygen saturation Minimum of 4, including ventilation (at least ... labeling tool Therefore, only the basic idea of CRF is introduced in this section Detailed explanation can be found in [28, 29] Clique, a graph C generated for each instance during training and inference, ... is adopted in the experiments for CRF training and testing http://crfpp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/index.html 27 4.2 Training Process In this step, two thresholds are trained using a set of...
... divide sleepapnea into three major categories: obstructive, central, and mixed apneaObstructivesleepapnea is characterized by intermittent pauses in breathing during sleep caused by the obstruction ... done according to signals which lie mostly within their correct class OBSTRUCTIVESLEEPAPNEA DETECTION As discussed in the introduction, obstructivesleepapnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder ... investigated for this purpose, but there has also been an interest in using overnight ECG recordings from Holter monitors to screen for osbtructive sleepapnea [12] The possibility of screening...
... (PSG) findings confirm the patients' complaints of insomnia, notably difficulties falling asleep (PSG: increase insleep latency), frequent awakenings during the night and early morning awakenings ... important confounding factor for studies on mood disorders in general, as its presence is not routinely determined in either research studies examining mood or clinical settings However, many ... arousals from sleep, with frequent arousals being the most important factor resulting in EDS With regards to sleep architecture, we find a significant increase in light sleep stage (mainly stage...
... for measuring daytime sleepiness: the Epworth sleepiness scale Sleep 1991; 14(6):540–545 Sleep- related breathing disorders in adults: recommendations for syndrome definition and measurement techniques ... breathing during sleep before a sleep study Am Rev Respir Dis 1990; 142:14–18 13 Viner S, Szalai JP, Hoffstein V Is history and physical examination a good screening test forobstructionsleep apnea? ... drive for rest, and daytime sleepiness as a drive forsleep (6) Sleepiness may occur more often during “passive” conditions, such as watching television or sitting as a passenger in a car; but in...
... with an increase in amplitude of negative intrathoracic pressure (increase in respiratory effort), leading to minimal reduction in airflow and arterial oxygen saturation but terminating in an arousal ... subjects to obstructiveapnea Imaging during sleep provides insight into the state-dependent anatomicophysiological changes in the airway Dynamic imaging permits examination of the airway during inspiration ... sat for AHI Discernable red in airflow plus 4% red in sat for RDI Red in airflow used to determine AHI and RDI Red in airflow plus 4% red in sat or 2% red in sat plus arousal for AHI Red in airflow...
... in remaining awake; slowed down, (6) sleepiness, prefer to be lying down, fighting sleep, woozy, and (7) almost in a reverie, sleep onset soon, lost struggle to remain awake Karolinska Sleepiness ... via inattention, response slowing, or unexpected lapses into sleep Sleepiness is the normal physiological consequence of sleep loss, sleep disruption, or diminished sleep integrity Sleepiness ... brain lesions, medications, or disease Severe sleepiness is the hallmark symptom of several sleep disorders, including narcolepsy, obstructivesleep apnea, behaviorally induced insufficient sleep...
... during expiration Commonly, expiratory pressure increases are performed in the setting of persistent or reappearing apneas, while inspiratory pressure increases are made in the setting of snoring, ... leptin and vascular risk factors inobstructivesleepapnea Chest 2000; 118:569–571 42 Chin K, Shinizu K, Nakamura T, et al Changes in intra-abdominal visceral fat and serum leptin levels in patients ... Academy of Sleep Medicine Practice parameters for the use of auto-titrating continuous airway pressure devices for titrating pressures and treating adult patients with obstructivesleepapnea syndrome...
... four-fold increase in the apnea index and a significant narrowing of the airway at 72 hours following LAUP These findings prompted them to discourage LAUP in patients with moderate or severe sleepapnea ... tomographic scans inobstructivesleepapneaSleep 1986; 9(4):514–515 212 Sesso et al 36 Riley R, Powell N, Guilleminault C, et al Obstructivesleepapnea syndrome: a surgical protocol for dynamic ... available to perform these detailed recordings, fewer measurements during overnight recordings remain informative However, the minimal requirement is to overnight record SpO2 in room air assessing that...
... Protriptyline inobstructivesleep apnea: a double-blind trial N Engl J Med 1982; 307(17):1037–1042 91 Guilleminault C, Hayes B Naloxone, theophylline, bromocriptine, and obstructivesleepapnea ... similar in men and women (38), resulting in a greater reduction in ventilation in men compared to women in the wake -sleep transition and a stimulus for ventilatory instability in men during sleep ... Progesterone has dueling effects on sleep- disordered breathing during pregnancy, with a strong sedating effect resulting in increased total sleep time, while increasing the drive for ventilation,...
... often fall asleep at inappropriate times during the day This inadvertent napping may happen while watching television or movies, reading, attending meetings, working, driving, and during conversations ... understanding of the distinct diagnostic criteria and the differences in the clinical presentation of UARS and obstructivesleepapnea hypopnea (OSAH) without daytime sleepiness and obstructivesleepapnea hypopnea ... abnormality in UARS is closely linked to its clinical presentation in terms of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) Other atypical signs of OSA (such as disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep) ...