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ACQKNOWLEDGE UPGRADE - MAC OS X - UPG1
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AcqKnowledge Upgrade - Mac OS X

Upgrade an existing installation of AcqKnowledge for Mac.

Upgrade to AcqKnowledge 4.1
for MP150 on Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.5
 
- free from AcqKnowledge 3.9.2  
   
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 - $395* from AcqKnowledge 3.9.0-3.9.1
 - $495 from AcqKnowledge 3.8.x or below

Upgrade to AcqKnowledge 3.92 
for MP100 on Mac OS X 10.4
 - $250* from AcqKnowledge 3.8.x or below

* Price will be adjusted when order is entered based on registered software.

WHAT'S NEW FOR ACQKNOWLEDGE 4.1

Supported Platforms
Analysis Automation Routines
  - HRV algorithm improvements
  - HRV analysis QRS threshold percentage
  - ICG Analysis Output Options
  - Event-related EDA Analysis
  - Stim-response configuration enhancements
  - Digital Input to Stim Events
Module-based analog setup (prompts guide setup)
Measurements
  - Sum measurement
  - Measurement presets
Mac OS Integration
  - Automator scripting language integration
  - Spotlight integration
Artifact Rejection functionality
Timed Reset for Integrate calculation and transformation
User Interface Enhancements
  - Analysis dialogs: consolidated parameters in a single dialog
  - Online averaging progress bar
  - Transformation history
  - Canceling Transformations & Transformation Progress Bar
  - Custom toolbars for transformations and analysis
  - Toolbar position retention and changes
  - Event tool enhancements
  - Typed event label drawing improvements
  - Choose MP150 Help Button
  - Button Transparency
  - Vertical axis scaling buttons
  - Long channel labels and units
  - Customizable Chart Track Dividers
  - Graph window tooltip improvements
  - Menu item tooltips

Plus, if  new to ACQKNOWLEDGE 3.9.2

Specialized Analysis Additions & Enhancements:

  • Respiration
       * Penh Analysis
       * Pulmonary Airflow
       * Compliance & Resistance
  • Neurophysiology: Amplitude/Half-Width Spike Discriminator to Locate Spikes
  • Heart Rate Variability: Locate R-waves Using Events

Calculation Channel Additions & Enhancements

  • Metachannels: Use a single calculation channel to perform a chained computation
  • Filter: Comb Band Stop (base frequency and its overharmonics) 
  • Rescale: adjust calibration values of analog channels (also in Automator)

Transformation Additions & Enhancements: 

  • Delay: add time delays to signals
  • Filter: Comb Band Stop
  • Rescale: adjust calibration values of analog channels 
  • Spectrum Analyzer (real-time and post-acquisition FFT)
  • Digital Filter Enhancements 
    • Cutoff frequency: Calculation channels FIR, IIR, Comb Band Stop
       Transformations FIR, IIR, Comb Band Stop, and Derivative
       Automator: Digital Filter-FIR/IIR, Comb Band Stop, and Derivative
    • # of coefficients: Transformations: FIR and Derivative
       Automator: Digital Filter-FIR and Derivative
  • Clustering (K-means) Options
    • Export Clustering results to Excel Option
    • 3D Scatterplot Background Modification
Measurements: Event Amplitude Maximum and Minimum
Network data transfer (only available in 3.9)
  • allow applications running on other computers attached to the same network to gain access to data from AcqKnowledge as it is being acquired

Data Management Features

  • Data snapshot details
  • European Data Format (EDF) file import/export
  • Batch Acquisitions Resume function
  • Selection Palette Options (Paste to Journal, Change Measurement Units)
  • Recently Used Transformations Submenu
  • 3D Dialog Positions—Tile, Stack, and Cascade
  • Cancel Button Added to Specialized Analysis Transformations

Plus, from AcqKnowledge 3.9.1

Manual Stimulator Control

Specialized Analysis New Packages & Enhancements

  • Correlation Coefficient
  • Spectral Subtraction
  • Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis tools
  • Electromyography (EMG) analysis tools
  • Neurophysiology analysis tools (single microelectrode extracellular)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging artifact removal tools
  • Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (in Hemodynamics)
  • Stim-Response
  • Electrodermal Activity
  • Excel Export (for reports with tabular data)
  • Updated: Impedance Cardiography (adaptive template matching C point location)
  • Enhanced: B-C Interval (dZ/dt max option)
  • Clustering (K-means)
Template Options
  • Normalized Correlation Coefficient
  • Adaptive Template Matching
  • Remove Projection Template

File Format Options

  • BSL File Import
  • Excel Spreadsheet Export
  • Spotlight Importer for Graph Files
  • WAV Files—Import, Export

Text Annotations

Stacked Plot Display Mode
Jump-to Tool
Selection Palette
Play Channel Data as Audio
Event Journal Summary Features
Selected Range Printing in Journal
Resampling Interpolation Options
Automator Integration & Scripting
Mouse Scrollwheel Support
Mac on Intel Compatibility

For full descriptions of new features added at each version, review the AcqKnowledge software guide (click Resources tab below).


 
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