OBJECTIVE Enhanced erythrocyte aggregation, revealed using a simple bedside test, has been found recently in several inflammatory conditions. The diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is at times difficult because of the vague symptoms and signs, but is crucial because even mild PID can have future reproductive consequences. Our objective was to determine the degree of erythrocyte aggr...

Let A be any set of positive integers and n ∈ N. A composition of n with parts in A is an ordered collection of one or more elements in A whose sum is n. A palindromic composition of n with parts in A is a composition of n with parts in A in which the summands are the same in the given or in reverse order. A Carlitz (palindromic) composition of n with parts in A is a (palindromic) composition o...

Axial migration of red blood cells in small glass tubes can cause blood viscosity to be effectively independent of shear rate. However, this phase separation may not occur to the same degree in the venous network due to infusion of cells and aggregates at branch points. To investigate this hypothesis, we followed trajectories of fluorescently labeled red blood cells in the venular network of th...

Aggregation of intuitionistic fuzzy sets is studied from the point of view of preserving various kinds of convexity. We focus on aggregation functions for intuitionistic fuzzy sets. These functions correspond to simultaneous separate aggregations of the membership as well as of the nonmembership indicators. It is performed by means of the so-called representable functions. Sufficient and necess...

In this paper the concept of inclusion is applied to dynamic linear discrete-time time-varying dynamic systems. Starting from general definitions, which include restriction and aggregation as special cases, inclusion conditions are derived. It is proved that any inclusion can be considered as a specific composition of sequences of restriction/ aggregation pairs. The paper contains also a formul...

‎in this paper‎, ‎we investigate some results on natural metrics on the $mu$-normal functions and meromorphic $q_p$-classes‎. ‎also‎, ‎these classes are shown to be complete metric spaces with respect to the corresponding metrics‎. ‎moreover‎, ‎compact composition operators $c_phi$ and lipschitz continuous operators acting from $mu$-normal functions to the meromorphic $q_p$-classes are characte...

The two-parts state-of-art overview of aggregation theory summarizes the essential information concerning aggregation issues. Overview of aggregation properties is given, including the basic classification of aggregation functions. In this first part, the stress is put on means, i.e., averaging aggregation functions, both with fixed arity (n-ary means) and with open arity (extended means).