ACTIVITY MONITOR - Vanderbilt Kennedy Center

MED ASSOCIATES INC. ACTIVITY MONITOR
1. Data subdirectory. It is a good idea to store the data in a separate folder.
2. ActivDll.dll. Library file used by the Activity program.
3. Activity.exe. The executable file that runs the show.
4. Activity.hlp. The on-line help file.
5. Activity.ini. Configuration file used to save the User Preferences.
6. Analysis.ldb. This file contains instructions for Analysis.mdb.
7. Analysis.mdb. This file contains the analyzed data in a database.
8. Default.cfg. This file contains the experiment specific parameters required to
sample and process data during acquisition.
9. Default.pro. This is an analysis profile that contains the instructions needed by
the software to do a specific, saved, and defined (by the user) analysis of the
data.
10. Default.zip. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FILE IN THE ACTIVITY DIRECTORY.
THIS FILE CONTAINS ALL OF THE RAW DATA THAT WAS RECORDED DURING THE
EXPERIMENTS. BACKUP THIS FILE OFTEN. Within this file is a 01012000.A01 -
*.Z99 file for every subject run or imported. This name denotes month, day,
year, and a unique identifier suffix (A01 - Z99). If 10 subjects are run, three
times a day for 3 days, there would be three sets of files with the same month,
day, year.A01 - A30. The information necessary for the software to discern which
animal the file relates to in the file itself.
11. Exp.ldb. This file contains instructions for Exp.mdb.
12. Exp.mdb. This is the database file created the very first time that an experiment
is entered, run a few subjects and close that session. Within this file are all of
the pertinent header categories, summary data, block data, and specific session
file ID's that link everything together. This information is linked to the analyzed
data information in Analysis.mdb via Subject ID, etc. Cross tabulating is fairly
straightforward and simple to; however, it may be more efficacious to perform
SQL queries, which could require some programming help.
13. Exp.wid. This file contains the instructions that define the column widths for the
various tabular screens.
14. Subject_123_Group_321_Experiment_Test-Config.Summary. This file is a
summary data file for Subject 123 of Group 321 in Experiment Test-Config.
15. Subject_123_Group_321_Experiment_Test-Config.Zone. This is an analyzed data
file for Subject 123 of Group 321 in Experiment Test-Config. Any time that an
analysis is done on this subject’s data, it is appended to the same file.
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