Truthful Record Research Articles

A Five-Channel Weighted Real-Time Algorithm for High-Density Electrodes Spike Sorting.

With the application of high-density neural probes, a neuron can be detected by multiple adjacent probes, and the traditional single-channel spike sorting is no longer suitable. In this paper, we propose a five-channel weighted real-time spike sorting algorithm based on template-matching to process neural signals recorded by high-density probes. This work uses the signals of the center channel and the adjacent four channels to form a five-channel template by weighting, and employs a modified OSort algorithm with unsupervised learning to update the template. We implemented automatic online spike sorting, and tested it with both ground truth recordings and simulated datasets. The experiments show that our algorithm utilizing the information of adjacent channels has a higher sorting accuracy than traditional single-channel spike sorting. The average sorting accuracy reaches 89%, compared to 78% for single-channel.

Influence of the Tikhonov Regularization Parameter on the Accuracy of the Inverse Problem in Electrocardiography.

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the standard method in clinical practice to non-invasively analyze the electrical activity of the heart, from electrodes placed on the body's surface. The ECG can provide a cardiologist with relevant information to assess the condition of the heart and the possible presence of cardiac pathology. Nonetheless, the global view of the heart's electrical activity given by the ECG cannot provide fully detailed and localized information about abnormal electrical propagation patterns and corresponding substrates on the surface of the heart. Electrocardiographic imaging, also known as the inverse problem in electrocardiography, tries to overcome these limitations by non-invasively reconstructing the heart surface potentials, starting from the corresponding body surface potentials, and the geometry of the torso and the heart. This problem is ill-posed, and regularization techniques are needed to achieve a stable and accurate solution. The standard approach is to use zero-order Tikhonov regularization and the L-curve approach to choose the optimal value for the regularization parameter. However, different methods have been proposed for computing the optimal value of the regularization parameter. Moreover, regardless of the estimation method used, this may still lead to over-regularization or under-regularization. In order to gain a better understanding of the effects of the choice of regularization parameter value, in this study, we first focused on the regularization parameter itself, and investigated its influence on the accuracy of the reconstruction of heart surface potentials, by assessing the reconstruction accuracy with high-precision simultaneous heart and torso recordings from four dogs. For this, we analyzed a sufficiently large range of parameter values. Secondly, we evaluated the performance of five different methods for the estimation of the regularization parameter, also in view of the results of the first analysis. Thirdly, we investigated the effect of using a fixed value of the regularization parameter across all reconstructed beats. Accuracy was measured in terms of the quality of reconstruction of the heart surface potentials and estimation of the activation and recovery times, when compared with ground truth recordings from the experimental dog data. Results show that values of the regularization parameter in the range (0.01-0.03) provide the best accuracy, and that the three best-performing estimation methods (L-Curve, Zero-Crossing, and CRESO) give values in this range. Moreover, a fixed value of the regularization parameter could achieve very similar performance to the beat-specific parameter values calculated by the different estimation methods. These findings are relevant as they suggest that regularization parameter estimation methods may provide the accurate reconstruction of heart surface potentials only for specific ranges of regularization parameter values, and that using a fixed value of the regularization parameter may represent a valid alternative, especially when computational efficiency or consistency across time is required.

“Mongүol čaүajin-u bičig” as a source on Mongolian Buddhism

The subject of this research is the chapter on Buddhist clergy from the ““Mongүol čaүajin-u bičig”, the Mongolian version of the “Code of the Chinese Chamber of External Relations”. The object of this research is the Manchurian policy with regards to Mongolian Buddhism. The article provides historiographical characteristics of the source in the old written Mongolian language, preserved in the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The author conducts a detailed overview of the five books of the compilation of laws; and based on the content of the articles, examines the position the Buddhist Church in accordance to the Qing legislation. It is underlined that the manuscript version of “Mongүol čaүajin-u bičig” reflects the traditional legal norms of the XIX century with regards to Buddhist religion. The author indicates the dynamic structure of the source and its evolution in terms of requirements of the time. Special attention is given to the restrictive policy of the Qing Empire in relation to Buddhist religion, as well as the interaction between religion and secular government, development of legal norms based on the “Truthful Record of the Mongols under the Qing Dynasty”. The main conclusion consists in the statement that the vertical of secular government subordinated the religious organization. The novelty is defined by involvement of the new source for analyzing the state of Mongolian Buddhism.

Data-driven feedback algorithms for automated position identification and environment reconstruction of autonomous vehicles

Abstract Independently of the automation level challenging aspects on unmanned vehicle management such as performance optimization processes, adaptive cruise control systems, steering and braking controls, are related to the assessment of the operational functioning degree of relevant responsive procedures. This paper states the problem of determining both the position and the environment of fully autonomous cars for safe and efficient car routing control. An adaptive, closed loop policy is proposed utilizing a minimum number of measurements available by principal car technology, a laser sensor and a smart camera. No additional investment is required on other devices where the costly continuous real time scans can be now reduced. The low computational complexity encourages for embedded designs providing real time responses. Missing or invalid sensor information is estimated by a first approach using neural network programming. Positions of mobile and immobile entities are determined and the related environmental context within the desired vehicle vicinity is precisely reproduced. The performance of the proposed methodology is evaluated through realistic simulation data fed by multiple ground truth recordings. Hence, multiple biases on direct information as generated by professional drivers leading to untruthful and unreliable conclusions are now minimized. A trajectory within Paris central areas and suburbs is considered involving varying traffic conditions and rich road infrastructure. Some first qualitative and quantitative results appraise the accuracy and performance of the proposed methodology while further research targets are discussed.

Названия музыкальных инструментов в памятнике «Правдивые записи о монголах Цинской империи»

The author considers the names of musical instruments presented in the decree on attributes of an escort of the Manchurian governor Hung Taiji for the festive ceremony held in honor of granting him the title ‘Gracious Peaceful Bogdo-Khan’ in 1636. The decree is presented in the written monument “Truthful record about Mongols of the Qing Empire” published in Classic Mongolian in 2013 in Huhe-Hoto (Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China). The author concludes that nominations of most of musical instruments took place on the basis of the acoustic perception of the sound they produced. For the first time the etymology of the word bičkigür ‘flute’ from the now-defunct verb *bičgi- ‘to whistle’ is proposed. In this way, in the Mongolic languages there are both ‘transparent onomatopoeias’ associated with some real sounds and imitations that lost their connection with the ideophonic words and allow only etymological reconstructions. The analyzing of semantics of dependent components of Mongolian complex words indicates that figurative perception of objects plays the main role during the nomination process. Consideration of complex words shows a generally similar mechanism of nomination of musical instruments in Mongolian and Chinese of the 17 th century. The description of the ideophonic words made it possible to expose semiotic, psychophysiological and linguistic foundations of the essence of language.

Лексика материальной культуры в памятнике «Правдивые записи о монголах Цинской империи»

The paper deals with the names of some items of material culture presented in the decree on attributes of an escort of the Manchurian governor Hung Taiji for the festive ceremony held in honor of granting him the title ‘Gracious Peaceful Bogdo-Khan’ in 1636. The decree is presented in the written monument “Truthful record about Mongols of the Qing Empire” published in Classic Mongolian in 2013 in Huhe-Hoto (People's Republic of China). It is revealed that naming of a number of objects under study was based on visual perception of their form and acoustical associations their action produced. So, names of such pieces of material culture as sarqalǰi ‘staff mace’, ǰida ‘spear’, etc. are connected with the image ‘something peaked’, baγbur ‘bowl’ with the image ‘something stocky’, longqu ‘bottle’ with the image ‘something big-bellied’, qubing ‘jug’ with the image ‘something narrow (about a neck)’, manǰilγa ‘fringe’ with the image ‘something long, trailing’. Etymologies of the words saγadaγ ‘quiver’ from a preverb *saγa [tata-] ‘to snatch out’, manǰilγa ‘fringe’, etc. are presented for the first time. The naming of tuγ ‘banner’ occurred on the basis of acoustical perception of its fluttering. The list contains loanwords from Chinese and Sanskrit. The analysis of the Chinese variants of lexemes showed that in certain cases their meaning is more precise, than that of Mongolian words. Consideration of compound words revealed a similar mechanism of naming process for some other pieces of material culture in Mongolian and Chinese of the 17th century. In the Chinese variant of the monument the word 撒带sā dài is a transliteration of the Mongolian word saγadaγ ‘quiver’. It demonstrates the importance of the Mongolian culture in the life of the Manchurian emperors’ Court. Mongolian, in turn, borrows some elements from Chinese which are used as an explanation to the main component of a compound word. So, the consideration of the etymology of the words designating elements of material culture showed some specificity of Mongolian in the way it reflects both real and mental worlds.

«Правдивые записи о династии Цин»: особенности комплектования и структура памятника

Based on generalization of the Russian, Mongolian, and Chinese scholarship, the article presents a structural characterization of the Qingshilu (“Truthful record of the Qing dynasty”), historical monument of the Manchu rule over China. The authors describe the complex process its creation in great detail. The analysis clarifies the issue of identifying the language of the primary source, which, in turn, increases opportunities of revealing the full potential of the historical and cultural heritage of the multilingual variants of the manuscript. Having studied historiographical discourse on the correlation between multilingual variants of Qingshilu in the historical works in Old Mongolian, Manchu, and Chinese, the authors conclude that it is possible to turn up new data on the history and culture of the Mongolian peoples of the Qing period by scrutinizing the materials of the 2“Truthful record of the Qing dynasty” published in 2013 in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China on the basis of the Mongolian variant of the Qingshilu. Concerning the structure of the Qingshilu, discrepancies in assessments of its total volume should be noted. Following the analysis of Russian and foreign scientific literature on the “Truthful record of the Qing dynasty,” a need has emerged to demarcate notions of semantically close terms reflecting the structure of the monument. Since in the source studies on the Qingshilu corpus there is no uniform and well-formed terminological tradition, the authors offer a system of terms and notions developed on the basis of refined description of the language of the original oeuvre. Such system is necessary for correct analysis and description of the sizeable and multilayered structure of the Qingshilu corpus. An attempt has been made to reconstruct the contents and determine places where all sets of the manuscript books of the Qing chronicle are kept.

Drawing the Line. Visual Representations of the Labouring and Lower Classes in the Mid-Victorian Illustrated Press

Engagés dans une démarche de fidélité à l’actualité, l’une des principales ambitions de la presse illustrée victorienne, The Graphic (1869-1932) et The Illustrated London News (1842-2003) ont consacré une part significative de leurs publications à la représentation de la pauvreté urbaine. À l’heure où les débats autour de l’extension du suffrage font affleurer les tensions entre pouvoir bourgeois et montée de la classe ouvrière, c’est en termes d’identités sociales et culturelles que se définit la citoyenneté britannique, objet d’un discours clivé dans l’ensemble de la classe politique. À travers une sélection d’illustrations publiées entre le milieu des années 1860 et la fin de la décennie suivante, le présent article s’attache à analyser la façon dont ces partis pris ont trouvé voix dans les pages de l’ Illustrated London News et du Graphic , soulignant une forme de contradiction entre l’objectif affiché par ces journaux, celui d’un réalisme presque photographique, et les images produites. Élaborées au prisme de filtres artistiques et satiriques et reproduites en fonction de contraintes techniques lourdes, ces représentations ont contribué à établir une distinction entre pauvreté « respectable » et déchéance sociale. En traçant une ligne de partage littérale entre dignité et indignité, ces périodiques se sont fait le relais d’un discours visuel rassurant et largement partagé quant à l’avenir de la nation britannique.

A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo

In recent years, multielectrode arrays and large silicon probes have been developed to record simultaneously between hundreds and thousands of electrodes packed with a high density. However, they require novel methods to extract the spiking activity of large ensembles of neurons. Here, we developed a new toolbox to sort spikes from these large-scale extracellular data. To validate our method, we performed simultaneous extracellular and loose patch recordings in rodents to obtain 'ground truth' data, where the solution to this sorting problem is known for one cell. The performance of our algorithm was always close to the best expected performance, over a broad range of signal-to-noise ratios, in vitro and in vivo. The algorithm is entirely parallelized and has been successfully tested on recordings with up to 4225 electrodes. Our toolbox thus offers a generic solution to sort accurately spikes for up to thousands of electrodes.

«Открылось то, что хранится в золотом сундуке…»: к вопросу об источниках и назначении «Правдивых записей о династии Цин»

The article analyzes a corpus of sources that formed the basis of the most notable record of the Qing Empire, the ‘Truthful Record of the Qing Dynasty’ (Qingshilu). The analysis is based on a careful study of Russian, Chinese and Mongolian scholarship. A historical treatise ‘Truthful Record of the Mongols under the Qing Dynasty’ based on the Qingshilu and written in the Old Mongolian script was published in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China in 2013. A team of researchers from the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) has been working on its translation, source studies and historical analysis, as its materials supplement the available data on the purport and sources of the Qingshilu. Review of its sources allows a better assessment of the veracity of the historical data of the ‘Truthful Record of the Qing Dynasty’ and a deeper understanding of its rich historical material on the Manchu dynasty ruling China, as well as Inner Asia during the Qing period. The article reviews the sources of the Qingshilu as listed in the ‘Truthful Record of the Mongols under the Qing Dynasty.’ Information on the Man Wen Lao Dang (‘The Old Archive of the Manchu Language’) is amassed and analyzed. The Man Wen Lao Dang was one of the sources used in compiling of early chronicles of the deeds of the first Manchu rulers into the ‘Truthful Record.’ The official historiographical and record-keeping tradition was then emerging in China under the Manchu dynasty. The authors assess the purport of the ‘Truthful Record of the Qing Dynasty’ throughout the spectrum of historical and political functions of the treatise. Analyzing of the sources of the ‘Truthful Record of the Qing Dynasty,’ including official documents untainted by compilers’ interpretation, and studying the import of the text in the political life allows to contend great value and veracity of the Qingshilu. The authors see new possibilities for studying international relations in the history of Inner Asia.

DistancePPG: Robust non-contact vital signs monitoring using a camera.

Vital signs such as pulse rate and breathing rate are currently measured using contact probes. But, non-contact methods for measuring vital signs are desirable both in hospital settings (e.g. in NICU) and for ubiquitous in-situ health tracking (e.g. on mobile phone and computers with webcams). Recently, camera-based non-contact vital sign monitoring have been shown to be feasible. However, camera-based vital sign monitoring is challenging for people with darker skin tone, under low lighting conditions, and/or during movement of an individual in front of the camera. In this paper, we propose distancePPG, a new camera-based vital sign estimation algorithm which addresses these challenges. DistancePPG proposes a new method of combining skin-color change signals from different tracked regions of the face using a weighted average, where the weights depend on the blood perfusion and incident light intensity in the region, to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of camera-based estimate. One of our key contributions is a new automatic method for determining the weights based only on the video recording of the subject. The gains in SNR of camera-based PPG estimated using distancePPG translate into reduction of the error in vital sign estimation, and thus expand the scope of camera-based vital sign monitoring to potentially challenging scenarios. Further, a dataset will be released, comprising of synchronized video recordings of face and pulse oximeter based ground truth recordings from the earlobe for people with different skin tones, under different lighting conditions and for various motion scenarios.

Cell therapy medical tourism: Time for action

1 Department of Research and Development, Hospira Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois, USA, 2 Department of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 3 Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, University College London, London, UK, 4 The Stop ALD Foundation, Houston, Texas, USA, 5 Interdisciplinary Oncology Program, H. Lee Moffi tt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA, 6 Department of Regulatory Affairs, Perkin Elmer Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 7 Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8 Section of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University Hospital, Cremona, Italy, 9 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 10 Department of Cell and Molecular Therapies, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital RPA Hospital and Centenary Institute, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 11 Research Foundation for Community Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and 12 Children ’ s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter, Gavin Arthur, and The Circle of Sex

Discusses Gavin Arthur's claim that Edward Carpenter told him about having sex with Whitman, and examines Carpenter's views on Whitman's sexuality; concludes that Arthur's memoir is a truthful record of his conversations with Edward Carpenter.

Your responsibility in documenting care

AORN JournalVolume 37, Issue 6 p. 1174-1177 And Other News Your responsibility in documenting care Linda Groah RN, Linda Groah RNSearch for more papers by this authorElizabeth A Reed RN, Elizabeth A Reed RNSearch for more papers by this author Linda Groah RN, Linda Groah RNSearch for more papers by this authorElizabeth A Reed RN, Elizabeth A Reed RNSearch for more papers by this author First published: May 1983 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0001-2092(07)64307-5Citations: 8AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume37, Issue6May 1983Pages 1174-1177 RelatedInformation

Standards of Truth: The Arrested Image and the Moving Eye

Previous articleNext article No AccessStandards of Truth: The Arrested Image and the Moving EyeE. H. GombrichE. H. Gombrich Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 7, Number 2Winter, 1980 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/448098 Views: 20Total views on this site Citations: 17Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1980 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Rosa Gutiérrez García El problema de la objetividad en las imágenes de la naturaleza: Von Humboldt y Goethe, Escritura e Imagen 17 (Nov 2021): 29–46.https://doi.org/10.5209/esim.78933Clare Veal Nostalgia and nationalism: Facebook ‘archives’ and the constitution of Thai photographic histories, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 51, no.33 (Nov 2020): 372–396.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463420000491Stephanie Geise Wissenschaftliche Bilder und die Visualisierung komplexer Daten, (Oct 2019): 313–333.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06508-9_21Stephen N.G. Davies, Lawrence W.C. Lai, Mark Hansley Chua Seen from above: The theoretical future of aerial photos in land use, environmental and planning study, Land Use Policy 78 (Nov 2018): 19–28.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.06.036Benjamin Krämer, Katharina Lobinger „So und nicht anders ist es gewesen!“, (Oct 2017): 1–21.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06738-0_6-1Stephanie Geise Wissenschaftliche Bilder und die Visualisierung komplexer Daten in der Kommunikationsforschung, (Sep 2017): 1–21.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06738-0_21-1Thomas J. Bussey, MaryKay Orgill What do biochemistry students pay attention to in external representations of protein translation? The case of the Shine–Dalgarno sequence, Chemistry Education Research and Practice 16, no.44 (Jan 2015): 714–730.https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RP00001GJohanna Sumiala-Seppänen, Matteo Stocchetti Mediated sacralization and the construction of postmodern communio sanctorum : the case of the swedish foreign minister anna lindh, Material Religion 1, no.22 (May 2015): 228–248.https://doi.org/10.2752/174322005778054168Amit Prasad Making Images/Making Bodies: Visibilizing and Disciplining through Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Science, Technology, & Human Values 30, no.22 (Aug 2016): 291–316.https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243904271758Paul Frosh Filling the Sight by Force: ‘Smoke’, photography and the rhetoric of immobilization 1, Textual Practice 12, no.22 (Jun 1998): 323–340.https://doi.org/10.1080/09502369808582311Kendall L. Walton Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things, (Jan 1987): 277–302.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3847-2_15Philip M. Rubens A Reader's View of Text and Graphics: Implications for Transactional Text, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 16, no.11 (Nov 2016): 73–86.https://doi.org/10.2190/JQX6-EUB3-V1WA-JW74 Untersuchungsrahmen: Inhaltsanalyse meinungsbildender Tageszeitungen im Bundestagswahlkampf 2005, (): 26–78.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91431-2_2 Die Macht der Bilder 2.0 — Grundlagen, Konzepte und Anwendungen der Bildanalyse, (): 79–159.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91431-2_3 Das Fallbeispiel der Bundestagswahl 2005: Kandidaten, Inhalte und Strategien im Spiegel der Medienberichterstattung, (): 243–283.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91431-2_5 Auswertung der Inhaltsanalyse: Kandidatendarstellung und Bildlogiken der untersuchten Printmedien im Bundestagswahlkampf 2005, (): 284–388.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91431-2_6 Literaturverzeichnis, (): 403–434.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91431-2_8

V. On the relative duration of the component parts of the radial sphygmograph trace in health

The graphic method of representing the various phenomena occurring in the body during life, which has been so much developed by MM. Marey and Chauveau of Paris, has placed within our reach great facilities for obtaining an accurate knowledge of the relations, in point of time, of mutually dependent physiological events, and the sphygmograph has be­ come, among others, an instrument familiar to most interested in science. By means of this instrument, a detailed and truthful record can be easily obtained of the modifications in the diameter of any superficial artery, and, as usually constructed, it is intended to be applied to the radial at the wrist.