Reflection relations and fermionic basis

There are two approaches to computing the one-point functions for sine-Gordon model in infinite volume. One is a bootstrap type procedure based on the reflection relations. Another uses the fermionic basis which was originally found for the lattice six-vertex model. In this paper we show that the two approaches are deeply interrelated.Comment: 17 pages; several typos are correcte

Heisenberg-type higher order symmetries of superintegrable systems separable in cartesian coordinates

Heisenberg-type higher order symmetries are studied for both classical and quantum mechanical systems separable in cartesian coordinates. A few particular cases of this type of superintegrable systems were already considered in the literature, but here they are characterized in full generality together with their integrability properties. Some of these systems are defined only in a region of $\mathbb R^n$, and in general they do not include bounded solutions. The quantum symmetries and potentials are shown to reduce to their superintegrable classical analogs in the $\hbar \to0$ limit.Comment: 23 Pages, 3 figures, To appear in Nonlinearit

Optimal Motor Unit Subset Selection for Accurate Motor Intention Decoding: Towards Dexterous Real-Time Interfacing

Objective: Motor unit (MU) discharge timings encode human motor intentions to the finest degree. Whilst tapping into such information can bring significant gains to a range of applications, current approaches to MU decoding from surface signals do not scale well with the demands of dexterous human-machine interfacing (HMI). To optimize the forward estimation accuracy and time-efficiency of such systems, we propose the inclusion of task-wise initialization and MU subset selection. Methods: Offline analyses were conducted on data recorded from 11 non-disabled subjects. Task-wise decomposition was applied to identify MUs from high-density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) pertaining to 18 wrist/forearm motor tasks. The activities of a selected subset of MUs were extracted from test data and used for forward estimation of intended motor tasks and joint kinematics. To that end, various combinations of subset selection and estimation algorithms (both regression and classification-based) were tested for a range of subset sizes. Results: The mutual information-based minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR-MI) criterion retained MUs with the highest predicative power. When the portion of tracked MUs was reduced down to 25%, the regression performance decreased only by 3% (R2=0.79) while classification accuracy dropped by 2.7% (accuracy = 74%) when kernel-based estimators were considered. Conclusion and Significance: Careful selection of tracked MUs can optimize the efficiency of MU-driven interfacing. In particular, prioritization of MUs exhibiting strong nonlinear relationships with target motions is best leveraged by kernel-based estimators. Hence, this frees resources for more robust and adaptive MU decoding techniques to be implemented in future

Semi-Automated Identification of Motor Units Concurrently Recorded in High-Density Surface and Intramuscular Electromyography

: An increasing focus on extending automated surface electromyography (EMG) decomposition algorithms to operate under non-stationary conditions requires rigorous and robust validation. However, relevant benchmarks derived manually from iEMG are laborsome to obtain and this is further exacerbated by the need to consider multiple contraction conditions. This work demonstrates a semi-automatic technique for extracting motor units (MUs) whose activities are present in concurrently recorded high-density surface EMG (HD-sEMG) and intramuscular EMG (iEMG) during isometric contractions. We leverage existing automatic surface decomposition algorithms for initial identification of active MUs. Resulting spike times are then used to identify (trigger) the sources that are concurrently detectable in iEMG. We demonstrate this technique on recordings targeting the extensor carpi radialis brevis in five human subjects. This dataset consists of 117 trials across different force levels and wrist angles, from which the presented method yielded a set of 367 high-confidence decompositions. Thus, our approach effectively alleviates the overhead of manual decomposition as it efficiently produces reliable benchmarks under different conditions.Clinical Relevance- We present an efficient method for obtaining high-quality in-vivo decomposition particularly useful in the verification of new surface decomposition approaches

Video display operator complaints: A 10-year follow-up of visual fatigue and refractive disorders

Visual fatigue and discomfort are very common complaints for video display operators (VDTs). The aim of our study was to study work-related visual symptoms in relation to refractive disorders and psychosocial factors in 3054 public employees by way of follow-ups for 10 years with periodic medical examinations with eye evaluation in the period 2000-2009. Factors related to visual fatigue were evaluated in the follow-up using generalized equation estimation. Visual fatigue was very common in VDT operators (64.03%). During the follow-up, no relationship between visual fatigue and age, sex, seniority of work, visual acuity and refractory disorders was found. Visual fatigue was significantly associated with anxiety perception in a dose-related matter (odds ratio (OR) 7.40, confidence interval (CI) 95% 1.77-31.3), psychosocial factors (OR 1.03, CI 95% 1.01-1.07), use of lenses (OR 1.34, CI 95% 1.09-1.64) and time of VDT usage (OR 1.27, CI 95% 1.04-1.53). This study confirmed that visual fatigue is common in VDT users and is related to anxiety perception, time of VDT usage, use of lenses and stress. No relationship was found between visual fatigue and refractory disorders or visual acuit

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM): anesthetic and obstetric monitoring, management and medico-legal aspects

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM): anesthetic and obstetric monitoring, management and medico-legal aspect

CO2\mathrm{CO_2} exploding clusters dynamics probed by XUV fluorescence

Clusters excited by intense laser pulses are a unique source of warm dense matter, that has been the subject of intensive experimental studies. The majority of those investigations concerns atomic clusters, whereas the evolution of molecular clusters excited by intense laser pulses is less explored. In this work we trace the dynamics of $\mathrm{CO_2}$ clusters triggered by a few-cycle 1.45-$\mu$m driving pulse through the detection of XUV fluorescence induced by a delayed 800-nm ignition pulse. Striking differences among fluorescence dynamics from different ionic species are observed