... characteristics Self-rated pain was assessed as pain at the moment and measured within a week before the day of testing on a blank 100 mm visual analogue scale (VAS), on which mm corresponds ... represent different aspects of sensorimotor control as indicated by weak or absent intervariable correlations [20,21] In the postural sway test the subject was instructed to stand as still as possible ... exploration is for rehabilitation of acute neck pain, whiplash associated disorders and diseases that involve dysfunction of the postural control, e.g vestibular and neurological diseases, as well...
... Signal Processing, pp 1053–1056, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 2001 [4] S Tiwari, S Ramachandran, A Bhattacharya, S Bhattacharya, and R Ramaswamy, “Prediction of probable genes by Fourier analysis ... sample values less than Maxvalue are effectively suppressed Consider a window of samples that has maximum sample value of The quadratic window operation produces yw (p) values of 0.0313 and 0.25 for ... characters A, T, C, and G [1] A character string composed of these four bases can be mapped to four signals [1] The signal uA (n) takes the value of either if A is present in the DNA sequence at...
... season Any discernable abnormalities, such as compression wood or false ring formation, were avoided From each wood sample, transverse sections were obtained using a rotary microtome at 10 µm and ... of a radial cell file was set as the 1% and the last one as the 100% of intra-ring position W/L ratio for each cell was calculated as the mean single cell wall thickness on both sides of each ... conventional threshold method needs an adjustment; we suggest the analysis of error zones for that purpose Because the analysis was conducted with more or less “normal” tree-rings, the practicability...
... DNA was not detected by nested PCR in the paraffin embedded tissue specimens The pathological diagnosis was plasma cell variant of Castleman 's disease With all these findings, the patient was ... nephrotic syndrome, Sjögren syndrome and POEMS syndrome and can progress to Kaposi 's sarcoma or malignant lymphoma The patient in this case was manifested with progressing splenomegaly at first and ... pathogenesis of plasma-cell-type Castleman 's disease Although there is evidence that HHV-8 plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of HIV-associated MCD Definitively establishing the causality...
... the skin and the appendix that is Page of anastomosed at the bladder wall witha nonrefluxing anastomosis Conclusion The association of Mitrofanoff s principle with the Monti procedure is feasible ... bladder can make the distance between the skin and bladder too long to create a tension-free anastomosis This result is true if the umbilicus is chosen for the stoma Especially in this case, the adipose ... adipose tissue of the patient s abdomen was very thick, and the appendix was too short to be used directly and reach the skin at the right iliac fossa Another relevant factor is that the navel s skin,...
... Tonozuka T, Mogi S, Shimura Y, Ibuka A, Sakai H, Matsuzawa H, Sakano Y & Ohta T (1995) Comparison of primary structures and substrate specificities of two pullulan-hydrolyzing a- amylases, TVA I and ... both starch and pullulan as a substrate Structural comparison of the catalytic site between TVAI and other a- amylases Since pullulan with regular repeats of a- (1,6), a- (1,4), and a- (1,4) glycosidic ... P5_N5(O2)–Asn68(OD1), P5_N5(O3)–Asn68(ND2), and P5_N5(O3)–Asp75(OD1) This suggests that domain N acts as a pullulanbinding domain as well as a starch-binding domain, and Trp65 in particular is a responsible...
... pair, but which are not generalizable across all pairs with the same relation Finally A contains the patterns that are observed across most pairs related with the same relation A is the topic model ... base We also assume a dependency parser is available, and that the entities have been automatically disambiguated using the knowledge base as sense inventory One of the most important problems ... surface text patterns fora question answering system In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 41–47 Association for Computational Linguistics...
... 17 Takahashi, W: Nonlinear Functional Analysis-Fixed Point Theory and Its Applications Yokohama Publishers (2000) 18 Xu, HK: Inequalities in Banach spaces with applications Nonlinear Anal (TMA) ... motivated by Ceng et al [2], Takahashi and Zembayashi [14], Takahashi and Zembayashi [9], the main aim of this paper is to introduce and investigate a new iterative methodfor finding a solution ... Honda, T, Takahashi, W, Yao, JC: Nonexpansive retractions onto closed convex cones in Banach spaces Taiwanese J Math 14, 1023–1046 (2010) 12 Kohsaka, F, Takahashi, W: Generalized nonexpansive...
... Rothe–Galerkin smethodfora nonlinear integrodifferential equation Abderrazek Chaoui∗ and Assia Guezane-Lakoud Laboratory of advanced materials, Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba, Algeria ∗ Corresponding ... that they have no competing interests Authors’ contributions The authors declare that the work was realized in collaboration with same responsibility All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... Corresponding author: Email address: razwel2004@yahoo.fr, a guezane@yahoo.fr Abstract In this article we propose approximation schemes for solving nonlinear initial boundary value problem with Volterra operator...
... the phase function for some typical cases in both SAR and ISAR systems (1) For nonmoving targets in SAR systems and for constant velocity targets in ISAR systems, the phase function can be approximated ... Transforms for Radar Imaging and Signal Analysis, Artech House, Boston, Mass, USA, 2002 [2] W G Carrara, R S Goodman, and R M Majewski, Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar—Signal Processing Algorithms, ... Spreading along range direction can also appear in conventionally processed radar image, see Figure 2 (a) This spreading appears as a result of fast moving targets and radar setup In this case, the adaptive...
... increasingly accessible datasets or databases ICTs play an important role in making these datasets/ databases available to researchers regardless of their location Sensors generate vast amounts ... diffusion • Clearing houses and associated data warehouses: data storage and retrieval systems including hard disk arrays, server arrays, database management systems (DBMS), storage, back up and ... include: • Software such as database management systems (DBMSs) that can manipulate digital data This includes geographic information systems (GIS); specialized database management systems that use textual,...
... am grateful to the referee for some valuable comments and suggestions References Dang Quang A, Approximate methodfor solving an elliptic problem with discontinuous coefficients, J Comput and Appl ... Vietnam J Math 30 (2002) 71–78 J L Lions and E Magenes, Problemes aux Limites non Homogenes et Applications Vol.1, Dunod, Paris, 1968 A Samarskij and E Nikolaev, Numerical Methods for Grid Equations ... Dang Quang A 10 sequence of BVPs for Poisson equation In this paper the boundary-domain operator method is used for constructing and studying an iterative methodfor the following BVP for...
... also allows us to count the number of cycle systems in many previously inaccessible graphs, such as non-planar hamburger graphs Just as Gessel and Viennot s result has found many applications, ... ) for each i ∈ I Note that every WSP-pair derived in this fashion is a WSP-pair satisfying the hypotheses of Lemma 2.2 and is such that its associated minimal WSP-pair is (Wm , σm ) There is also ... many signed walk systems W Walk systems that are not cycle systems will all cancel out in the determinant expansion We will show this in two steps We start by considering walk systems that are...
... Agency.: Absorbed dose determination in external beam radiotherapy: an international code of practice for dosimetry based on standards of absorbed dose to water IAEA TRS-398 Vienna, Austria: IAEA; ... to be safe and feasible, and along with the significant cost/time reduction suggests that it is more advantageous than external procedures in Istitutes/Hospitals without dedicated devices Acknowledgements ... irradiation Transfus Med Rev 1992, 6:116-23 Guidelines on gamma irradiation of blood components for the prevention of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease British Commission for Standards...
... inputs were sampled at 160 Hz and enhanced using a band pass IIR filter with the pass band around 9–31 Hz Then, the common spatial patterns (CSP) analysis was performed on the samples In binary classification ... subjects (AA, BB, CC) In each session, there are 192 trials The training set consists of all the trials of 1–6 sessions The test set consists of 7–10 sessions Both the proposed method and two state-of-the-art ... research focuses on investigation and development of effective framework and statistical learning algorithms for the analysis and classification of brain signals His interests include machine learning,...
... this area is still in its infancy Based on the assumption of flat-fading channels, [8, 9] propose trainingsequences-aided least square (LS) and linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) channel estimators ... 3.1 LMMSE channel estimation method This subsection proposes a training-based methodfor channel estimation of multiple AF-relays-assisted cooperative diversity systems in the simple bandwidth-efficient ... total channel taps T, this training scheme can always achieve the minimum MSE estimation performance SIMULATION RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 5.1 System parameters The performance of the proposed LMMSE...
... primary modality for disease transmission among injection drug users (IDUs) [1,2] Many states and localities have implemented syringe access programs (SAPs) to reduce the sharing of syringes, ... counter syringe sales and syringe exchange programs (SEPs) [3] These interventions have been associated with decreased incidence of bloodborne disease and risky syringe-related behaviors among IDUs ... police arrest or harassment of program staff [23] Recent data from an ongoing national survey of SAP respondents in the U .S suggest that syringe exchange programs experience an annual average of...
... The size of this cavity is comparable with that of adeninelacking cobalamins, and thus allows the damaged 4940 Materials Crystalline AdoCbl was a gift from Eisai (Tokyo, Japan) CN-Cbl was obtained ... by Laemmli [37] Protein was stained again with Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 Densitometric analysis of gels was performed witha Printgraph AE-6911CX system (ATTO, Tokyo, Japan) and nih-image, ... reactivating factors – that is, subunit swapping might occur However, no biochemical evidence for this has been obtained so far A similar reactivating factor for ethanolamine ammonia lyase has been...
... 5¢-CACAACGCCACCAACCATCAGA CCGATGATAGCACCCTTGTTAGAACCCAC-3¢; Abstart, 5¢-GCGTAGGGTCGACATATGGACGCTGAATT CCGTCACG-3¢; Abstop, 5¢-CCTGCCGAGCTCCTATTA CACAACGCCACCAACCATCAG-3¢ The PCR solution was prepared ... 5000 single laser shots for MS and MS ⁄ MS analyses, respectively Preparation of aggregate-free monomer for fibrillation assays For fibrillation assays, it is essential to start witha uniform monomeric ... gels (A, C) and 1% agarose gels (B,D), and proteins were visualized by Coomassie stain Lanes HS and LS are molecular mass standards, with the molecular mass in kDa given on the left (E) 1% agarose...
... XML-based threads can be used by webcasting or push services, since various tools for parsing and visualizing threads are available In Section 2, a directed graph structure for articles is defined, ... will restart nuclear testing This will hamper nuclear disarmament dg: France states that it will restart nuclear testing Australia halts defense cooperation with France dlo: France states that it ... display in a readily understandable way Software tools for handling graphs are also required Formal features of graphs can express the underlying characteristics of articles More efficient and...