Background In chronic heart failure (CHF), arterial baroreflex regulation of cardiac function
is impaired, leading to a reduction in the tonic restraining influence on the sympathetic …

Background Reduced heart rate variability, particularly in the very-low-frequency (VLF)
spectral band, has been found to be a marker for poor prognosis in patients after myocardial …

Background: Orthotopic heart transplantation results in cardiac denervation. The presence
of cardiac parasympathetic reinnervation in humans has been widely debated based on the …

Introduction Automatic event detection (AED) of residual apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) by
ventilators is a current practice in sleep and mechanical ventilation Units but this methodology …

Practices such as mindfulness, introspection, and self-reflection are known to have positive
short and long-term effects on health and well-being. However, in today's modern, fast-paced…

… are immunomodulatory proteins such as PrpA (encoding the proline … We report here that,
in vivo, Brucella abortus prpA is … phase of the infectious process in a prpA dependent manner. …

In this chapter, we present a state of the art on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) use in
contemporary art. We analyzed sixty-one artworks that employ BCI dating from 1965 to 2018, and …

Evidence shows that polyphenols can attenuate postprandial blood glucose responses to
meals containing digestible carbohydrate. Polyphenol-rich plant extracts are emerging as …

An alternative location for placement of half-pins during pelvic external fixation is the dense
supra-acetabular bone in the region of the anterior-inferior iliac spine. Although these …

Busy daily lives and ongoing distractions often make people feel disconnected from their
bodies and experiences. Guided attention to self can alleviate this disconnect as in focused-…