Background and Purpose: Physical therapists seek to optimize movement as a means of
reducing disability and improving health. The short-term effects of interventions designed to …

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), acupuncture has been used to heal various diseases
and physiologic malfunctions in clinical practice for more than 2500 years. Due to its …

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), pain is never merely a sign of discomfort. It is usually
an integral part of a particular disease or physiological malfunction. Thus pain should not be …

The human body is a hierarchical organism containing many levels of mutually interacting
oscillatory systems. From the viewpoint of traditional Chinese medicine, health is a state of …

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) exhibit complex coordination and interaction across multiple
behaviors such as swarming. This coordination among honeybees in the same colony is …

Physiological rhythms are ubiquitous and essential to our life. They usually interact with one
another and also with the outside environment. Disappearance of normal rhythms and …

This paper aims to efficiently implement the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for Hurst
exponent, a vital parameter embedded in the process of fractional Brownian motion (FBM) or …

The fractal dimension (FD) and spectral frequencies of physiological signals are two
important indices in the study of physiological functions and dynamical diseases. The first …

Fractional Brownian motion (FBM) is an important tool in biomedical signal processing.
Recently, it has been used to explain the synergic/cooperative co-activations of …

Recently, a reticular model based on classical Chinese meridian systems was proposed to
explain the mechanism of acupuncture. In this paper, the rationale behind this model is …