Intellectualized Home Environment as a Complex System

ISCS 2014: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems - Emergence, Complexity and Computation ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-10759-2_10 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 87-97

Author(s):

Raimundas Jasinevicius ◽

Egidijus Kazanavicius ◽

Vytautas Petrauskas

Keyword(s):

Complex System ◽

Home Environment

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A Reproducible Selective Stain for Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100051086 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 214-215

Author(s):

R. A. Waugh ◽

J. R. Sommer

Keyword(s):

Complex System ◽

Electron Microscope ◽

Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Transmission Electron Microscope ◽

Electron Microscopic ◽

Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Transmission Electron

Cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is a complex system of intracellular tubules that, due to their small size and juxtaposition to such electron-dense structures as mitochondria and myofibrils, are often inconspicuous in conventionally prepared electron microscopic material. This study reports a method with which the SR is selectively “stained” which facilitates visualizationwith the transmission electron microscope.

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Comparisons of Auditory Brainstem Responses Between a Laboratory and Simulated Home Environment

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00383 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (11) ◽

pp. 3877-3892

Author(s):

Ashley Parker ◽

Candace Slack ◽

Erika Skoe

Keyword(s):

Home Environment ◽

Signal To Noise Ratio ◽

Auditory Brainstem ◽

Auditory Brainstem Responses ◽

Single Family ◽

Adult Participants ◽

Simulated Home Environment ◽

Brainstem Response ◽

Research Populations ◽

Response Consistency

Purpose Miniaturization of digital technologies has created new opportunities for remote health care and neuroscientific fieldwork. The current study assesses comparisons between in-home auditory brainstem response (ABR) recordings and recordings obtained in a traditional lab setting. Method Click-evoked and speech-evoked ABRs were recorded in 12 normal-hearing, young adult participants over three test sessions in (a) a shielded sound booth within a research lab, (b) a simulated home environment, and (c) the research lab once more. The same single-family house was used for all home testing. Results Analyses of ABR latencies, a common clinical metric, showed high repeatability between the home and lab environments across both the click-evoked and speech-evoked ABRs. Like ABR latencies, response consistency and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were robust both in the lab and in the home and did not show significant differences between locations, although variability between the home and lab was higher than latencies, with two participants influencing this lower repeatability between locations. Response consistency and SNR also patterned together, with a trend for higher SNRs to pair with more consistent responses in both the home and lab environments. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining high-quality ABR recordings within a simulated home environment that closely approximate those recorded in a more traditional recording environment. This line of work may open doors to greater accessibility to underserved clinical and research populations.

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