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Introduction to the Power Pole Board
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2023
Source: Ali Bazzi, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. DC/DC converters are power electronic converters that convert DC voltages and currents from a certain level to another level. Typically, voltage conversion is the main purpose of DC/DC converters and three main types of conversion exist in a single converter: stepping up, stepping down, and stepping up or down. Among the most common step-up converters are boost converters (Refer to this collections...
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Pole and System Stability
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2024
The transfer function is a fundamental concept representing the ratio of two polynomials. The numerator and denominator encapsulate the system's dynamics. The zeros and poles of this transfer function are critical in determining the system's behavior and stability. Simple poles are unique roots of the denominator polynomial. Each simple pole corresponds to a distinct solution to the system's characteristic equation, typically resulting in exponential decay terms in the system's response.
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Frontal Disconnection for Treating Mild Malformation of Cortical Development with Oligodendroglial Hyperplasia in Epilepsy (MOGHE) in the Frontal Lobe
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2024
Here, we present a protocol to describe the epilepsy outcome and complications of 8 patients with mild malformation of cortical development with oligodendroglial hyperplasia in epilepsy (MOGHE) in the frontal lobe after frontal disconnection. The procedure is characterized by its simplicity, user-friendliness, and fewer postoperative complications.
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The Dig Task: A Simple Scent Discrimination Reveals Deficits Following Frontal Brain Damage
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2013
In this protocol, a novel application of scent discrimination is described. The Dig task is a reasonably inexpensive task that can be used to assess frontally-mediated cognition following brain damage.
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Dissection of Organizer and Animal Pole Explants from Xenopus laevis Embryos and Assembly of a Cell Adhesion Assay
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2007
This video demonstrates the technique used for preparation of organizer and animal pole explants from Xenopus laevis embryos, including the use of the eyebrow knife - a specialized dissection tool made of one's eyebrow. The protocol for assembling an adhesion assay is also given, which probes for the presence of key adhesion molecules present on the surface organizer or animal pole cells that are critical for proper development.
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Rather than supporting only a single immediate task, the frontal pole helps maintain and compare goals, task rules, and information across time. This capacity allows a person to preserve one intention while evaluating another, linking current behavior with delayed or competing demands. In psychology, that temporal coordination is central to understanding complex, internally guided behavior.
When demands compete, the frontal pole contributes to monitoring an ongoing activity while keeping another intention available. This arrangement helps explain how people shift between current tasks and future plans without treating each demand as isolated. Studying this coordination gives researchers a way to examine multitasking and the management of competing goals in executive-function research.
The frontal pole is examined in relation to metacognition because researchers want to understand how people monitor their own thinking while managing goals and task rules. This perspective extends beyond whether a person produces a correct response: it addresses awareness of ongoing cognitive demands and the evaluation of competing intentions. Such work connects frontal-pole research with abstract reasoning and executive function.
Psychological studies commonly combine neuroimaging with lesion-based assessments rather than relying on a single behavioral measure. Researchers can examine activity or performance while participants complete tasks involving prospective memory, multitasking, planning, abstract reasoning, or metacognition. Comparing these patterns helps connect frontal-pole function with specific cognitive demands and clarifies what changes when the region is affected.
Prospective-memory tasks are useful because they test whether a person can retain an intention for later while continuing to manage present activity. In frontal-pole research, this design directly probes the relationship between future-oriented goals and ongoing tasks. Results can therefore inform broader accounts of how executive systems coordinate delayed intentions with immediate behavior.
Findings from frontal-pole research contribute to the study of cognitive and psychiatric conditions by identifying how difficulties with planning, multitasking, prospective memory, or self-monitoring may relate to executive control. The value is explanatory rather than diagnostic on its own: neuroimaging and lesion-based evidence helps researchers characterize patterns of cognitive function within broader psychological investigations.