In this thesis, we survey approximate dynamic programming (ADP) methods and test the methods with the game of Tetris. We focus on ADP methods where the costto-go function J is approximated with 5r, where 4 is some matrix and r is a vector with relatively low dimension. There are two major categories of methods: projected equation methods and aggregation methods. In projected equation methods, t...

Background: Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are at increased risk of bleeding due to multifactorial coagulopathies. In the present study, we aimed at investigating the changes in platelet count and function during and after surgery as well as determining the association of the platelet dysfunction with bleeding and transfusion requirements in these patients. Methods: A total of 40 adult pat...

This article discusses Lipschitz properties of generated aggrega-tion functions. Such generated functions include triangular norms and conorms, quasi-arithmetic means, uninorms, nullnorms and continuous generated functions with a neutral element. The Lipschitz property guarantees stability of aggregation operations with respect to input inaccuracies, and is important for applications. We provid...

Aggregation-Induced Emission In article 2202907 by Pengfei Zhang, Ben Zhong Tang, and co-workers, living mitochondria is used as a “submarine” to deliver aggregation-induced emission (AIE) photosenzitizers for killing the target cancer cells hidden in “deep sea” of human body. The therapeutic function AIE can be remotely activated microwave irradiation. external also helpful tumor microenvironm...

Coagulation and platelet function studies were performed on 24 normal subjects and 29 patients with chronic renal failure due to various causes. Thrombocytopenia was uncommon in the uraemic patients but there was reduced platelet retention in glass bead columns and platelet aggregation with adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and thrombin was slower and less complete than normal. The rate of platelet d...

The effect of acute hypoglycaemia on platelet function was examined in patients undergoing an insulin stress test. Enhanced platelet aggregation was observed in all cases but platelet count, platelet adenine nucleotides, and the plasma level of von Willebrand factor were unchanged overall. The onset of the hypoglycaemia-induced increase in platelet aggregation coincided with the lowest blood gl...