BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Conventional therapies fail to restore normal gait to many patients after stroke. The study purpose was to test response to coordination exercise, overground gait training, and weight-supported treadmill training, both with and without functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) using intramuscular (IM) electrodes (FNS-IM). METHODS In a randomized controlled trial, 32 su...

In this paper, a novel method for ranking of fuzzy numbers are proposed. In this method, decision maker is defined based on the center of mass at some cuts of a pair of fuzzy numbers in discreet version and center of mass on all of cuts of a pair of fuzzy numbers in continuous version. Our method can rank more than two fuzzy numbers simultaneously. Also, some properties of methods are described...

let $(u_n)$ be a sequence of fuzzy numbers.  we recover the slow oscillation of $(u_n)$ of fuzzy numbers from the ces`{a}ro summability of its generator sequence and some additional conditions imposed on $(u_n)$. further, fuzzy analogues of some well known classical tauberian theorems for ces`{a}ro summability method are established as particular cases.

in this paper the solution of a second order linear dierential equations with intu-itionistic fuzzy boundary value is described. it is discussed for two dierent cases: coecientis positive crisp number and coecient is negative crisp number. here fuzzy numbers aretaken as generalized trapezoidal intutionistic fuzzy numbers (gtrifns). further a numericalexample is illustrated.

the importance as well as the difficulty of the problem of ranking fuzzy numbers is pointed out. here we consider approaches to the ranking of fuzzy numbers based upon the idea of associating with a fuzzy number a scalar value, its signal/noise ratios, where the signal and the noise are defined as the middle-point and the spread of each $gamma$-cut of a fuzzy number, respectively. we use the va...

Online reverse auctions have benefits in reducing business purchasing costs and lead times. Previous research focused on developing new mechanisms for open-cry and multiple rounds of auctions, which is not appropriate for direct goods purchasing. Moreover, the implementation issues in the web-site design are not considered. We construct an easily-computed fuzzy multi-attribute matching mechanis...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of sentinel lymph node biopsy and that of four-node sampling for predicting other nodal status in breast cancer. METHODS 206 patients with operable breast cancer were enrolled. The identification of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) was carried out in 110 patients using a gamma probe after injection of radioactive tin colloids. Four palpa...