... between E and D on the probability ratio scale; and the type of post- 38 Epidemiology – CurrentPerspectivesonResearchandPractice conditioning analysis (a weighted average, regression, or none) ... collider on the paths ECF and EDCF even though it is still a collider on the path ECD As we have seen, conditioning on a confounder removes confounding bias In contrast, conditioning on a ... ruling out, with reasonable confidence, alternative explanations such as reverse causation, selection bias, information bias, confounding and chance The formalization and discussion of these alternative...
... Theory and Applications, vol 2010, Article ID 165098, p 18, 2010 20 H Iiduka and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorems for nonexpansive mappings and inversestrongly monotone mappings,” Nonlinear ... solution for the following multiobjective optimization problem with the nonempty set of solutions: h1 x , h2 x , x ∈ C, 4.1 where h1 x and h2 x are both the convex and lower semicontinuous functions ... with ones of others in the literatures and our result extends and improves the ones of Colao et al and some others 6 Fixed Point Theory and Applications Preliminaries Let C be a closed convex...
... Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 1.3 Contribution In [8], we recently proposed a combination of two propagation models for outdoor to indoor radio propagation predictions, as ... the model in Section Finally, perspectivesand conclusions will be developed in Section Approaches for Deterministic Radio Propagation As explained in the introduction, the context of the present ... propagation,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 55, no 3, pp 938–948, 2007 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking [21] G de la Roche, K Jaffr` s-Runser, and J.-M...
... motivation and contribution 1.3 Focus, motivation and contribution In this paper, we focus on the finite-horizon case, where the customer’s demand is known (deterministic) and day-dependent(dynamic) Only ... motivation In the industry, the IRP can be applied to various distribution systems Traditionally, researchers and practitioners have focused on the distribution of industrial gases The reason for ... proposed in Section 3.3 Finally, Section 3.4 refines the latter formulation by tightening some constraints 3.1 Problem definition and motivations The problem we will focus on is a finite-horizon inventory-routing...
... bulge formation, chronic constipation, as well as a feeling of permanent abdominal constriction and pain These symptoms appeared eight months after bilateral breast reconstruction, which was ... after reconstruction Abdominal contour before and after reconstruction (A) The preoperative abdominal contour (lateral view) (B) The abdominal contour six weeks after the reconstruction (lateral ... breast reconstruction This was repaired using a combination of the abdominal wall component separation technique of Ramirez et al [7] and additional mesh augmentation Case presentation We report...
... the mass action rate law: rA!B ðtÞ ¼ k Á cA ðtÞ In this reaction kinetic, the reaction rate rAfiB(t) depends on the substrate concentration cA(t) and the rate constant k The model code and a detailed ... indispensable Integration of data on, for example, gene expression, protein abundance, metabolite concentration and other biological parameters with an iterative model, and exploration of model characteristics ... the strongest reduction in LT50 between and days, whereas the gain in tolerance was only minor during the first 24 h of cold exposure and between days and In contrast, LT50 decreased almost continuously...
... electroporation ESCs expressing the transgene were selected by incubation for days in medium containing a concentration of G418 (Invitrogen) of 400 lgÆmL)1 G418-resistant colonies were picked and expanded ... genotyping and the formation of embryoid bodies One ESC clone (T26) out of 48 G418-resistant clones was further examined for the presence of the tsA58T cDNA expression unit and for widespread expression ... addition, an SV40-ori-containing plasmid carrying a GFP expression cassette could be introduced by lipofection and maintained for at least days after transfection as assessed by GFP expression (Fig...
... restriction site (ACRS)-PCR procedure [26], experimental conditions are essentially the same as those mentioned before except for the primer concentration (50 pmolÆ50 lL)1 reaction mix) and the concentration ... provided (e.g HPSPERT and HLSPQRT for alleles B2 and A, respectively) The RsaI polymorphic restriction site and insertions occurring, respectively, between exons andand within intron are indicated ... variants A and F, while components e and d seem to be in common with the A variant Therefore, band b represents the only component specific to the M variant The intensities of the bands in the...
... the currents measured at )160 mV with Bip-Pro concentrations between 20 and 500 lm was 26 lm and the maximal current amounted to 8% of the current evoked by Gly-Sar at saturating concentration ... at pH 6.0 for 10 at two Gly-Sar concentrations and at increasing Bip-Pro concentrations The diffusional component of [14C]Gly-Sar uptake, of 8% in Caco-2 cells and of 4% in SKPT cells, measured ... two different Gly-Sar concentrations (50 and 500 lm in Caco-2 cells and 10 and 100 lm in SKPT cells) in the presence of increasing concentrations of Bip-Pro (0– 100 lm and 0–50 lm, respectively)...
... growth media, containing nitrate (1.5 mM KNO3), ammonium (1.5 mM NH4Cl) or mixtures of nitrate and ammonium as nitrogen source (nitrate concentration was 1.5 mM, ammonium concentrations were: Q10, ... transcription and translation of gfp mRNA To further evaluate the properties of the Pnr ⁄ Tnr expression cassette, Clone 31 cells preconditioned in ammonium medium were subjected to nitrogen starvation, ... Cyclotella cryptica and Navicula saprophila [10] So far, in all but one case, only constitutive expression of introduced genes has been achieved The one exception involved expression of a green fluorescent...
... 1,10-phenanthroline and metal ions at concentrations of and 10 mM The presence of the metal ions, Fe2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Hg2+ and Fe3+, at mM gave rise to significant inhibition of between 90% and 100% Additionally, ... purified and characterized MATERIALS AND METHODS Bacterial strains, plasmids and conditions Variovorax paradoxus Iso1 was isolated from an environmental situation containing N-acetyl-D-methionine ... the Chirobiotic T HPLC method using D-methionine as standard [44] The test concentration of chelating reagents and metal ions used for assay were mM and 10 mM, respectively Substrate specificity...
... miliardi (billions), milioni (millions) in the sentence [10] J.F.Sowa, Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine, Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1984 I111 O.Stock, F.Ceceoni and C.Castelfranchi, ... stems, vad (go) andand (went); so there exist two subclasses of endings named respectively dvl andare and -> verbalization -> HAN-EGGIARE (to hand-le) -> composition -> PALLA-MANO (hand-ball) ... lemmata, andon the other the sets of affixes, alterations, endings and enclitics The former (which is the most relevant and needs to be continuously updated), has been struclurcd as a relational...
... (0–30, wrist and finger flexion/extension and thumb abduction and adduction) based on the MRC (0–5), and a sum score of muscle tone (0–15, resistance to passive wrist and finger extension and thumb ... Rutgers Hand Masters I and II use pistons mounted inside the palm to move the fingers, with virtual reality to improve motivation Chronic stroke patients improved range of motion, motor control and ... muscle tone before putting the hand in the device, and ultrasound contact gel could be applied to the fingers to diminish the friction between fingers and finger-rolls Initially, the rotation speed...
... the set of common fixed points for nonexpansive semigroup and the set of solution of quasivariational inclusions with multivalued maximal monotone mappings and inverse-strongly monotone mappings ... problem and the set of solutions of a variational inclusion problem for an inverse-strongly monotone mapping Let Wn be W-mapping defined by 2.8 , f be a contraction mapping and A, B be inverse-strongly ... From 3.30 and by conditions C1 c and C2 , we get lim ni → ∞ rk K Iki xni − K Ik−1 xni , η x, Iki xni n ni n 3.51 By the assumption and by condition H1 , we know that the function ϕ and the mapping...
... Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 329, no 1, pp 336–346, 2007 11 Y Yao, R Chen, and J.-C Yao, “Strong convergence and certain control conditions for modified Mann iteration,” Nonlinear Analysis, ... variational inequality Question Can Theorem 3.1 of Zhou , Theorem 2.2 of Hu and Cai 12 and so on be extended from finite λi -strictly pseudocontraction to infinite λi -strictly pseudocontraction? ... pseudocontraction? Question We know that the Meir-Keeler contraction MKC, for short is more general than the contraction What happens if the contraction is replaced by the Meir-Keeler contraction? The purpose...
... optimization problem with nonempty set of solutions: h1 x , h2 x , 4.1 x ∈ C, where h1 x and h2 x are both convex and lower semicontinuous functions defined on a nonempty closed and convex subset ... Theory and Applications Lemma 2.2 see 10, Lemma 3.1 b Let H be a Hilbert space and T : H → H be a nonexpansive mapping Let F : H → H be a mapping which is κ-Lipschitzian and η-strong monotone on ... xn and T λn zn 1−λn μ zn Lipschitzian and 1-strongly monotone, n αi−1 −αi Ti xn i Therefore, by Theorem 3.5, we conclude the desired result Corollary 3.7 Let C be a nonempty closed and convex...
... chooses a new configuration for the classifier A2 samples a random configuration near its current best (or baseline) configuration, and if the utility increases with the new configuration, set the new ... Section Simulation results from a speech classification application are given in Section 6, and conclusions in Section Review of Existing Works 2.1 Resource-Constrained Classification Various works ... new baseline configuration to the new configuration Additionally, we use two algorithms A3 , A4 to perform random experimentation in low P F (below the equal error rate configuration) and high P F...
... nonexpansive retraction of E if there exists a sunny nonexpansive retraction of E onto C, and it is said to be a nonexpansive retraction of E if there exists a nonexpansive retraction of E onto C In a ... generalization of all the above mentioned iterative sequences i In contrast to the iterations 1.3 – 1.5 , the convex composition of the iteration 1.7 deals with only xn instead of u and xn ii ... converges strongly to a common zero of {Ai : i ∈ Λ} In this paper, we introduce and study a new iterative sequence: Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of E and f : C → C a k-contraction...
... common fixed point of nonexpansive mapping and strictly pseudocontractive mapping and also apply Theorem 3.1 for finding a common fixed point of nonexpansive mapping and inverse strongly monotone ... Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 318, no 1, pp 43–52, 2006 H Iiduka and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorems for nonexpansive mappings and inversestrongly monotone mappings,” Nonlinear Analysis: ... appropriate conditions imposed on {αn } and {λn }, the sequence {xn } generated by 1.8 converges strongly to a common element of the set of fixed points of nonexpansive mapping and the set of solutions...
... solutions of a generalized Fixed Point Theory and Applications equilibrium problem, and the set of solutions of a variational inclusion with set-valued maximal monotone and inverse strongly monotone ... problem and the set of solutions of a variational inclusion and the set of common fixed points of a finite family of quasi-nonexpansive and Lipschitz mappings Theorem 3.1 Let C be a nonempty closed convex ... bifunction satisfying (A1)–(A5), let ϕ : C → R ∪ {∞} be a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function, let A : H → H be an α-inverse strongly monotone mapping, let M : H → 2H be a maximal monotone...