Current Opinion in Pediatrics 2008, 20:471–482 Purpose of review Mitochondrial diseases are a major category of childhood illness that produce a wide variety of symptoms and multisystemic disorders. This review highlights recent clinically important developments in diagnostic evaluation and treatment of mitochondrial diseases. Recent findings Major advances have been made in understanding the g...

omotopy analysis method (ham) is a promising method for handling func-tional equations. recent publications proved the eectiveness of ham in solvingwide variety of problems in dierent elds. ham has a unique property whichmakes it superior to other analytic methods, this property is its ability to con-trol the convergence region of the solution series. in this work, we claried theadvantages ...

Many Antarctic marine benthic invertebrates are adapted to specific environ− mental conditions (e.g. low stable temperatures, high salinity and oxygen content). Changes caused by global climatic shifts can be expected to have significant impact on their physiol− ogy and distribution. Odontaster validus, an ubiquitous, omnivorous sea star is one of the “keystone species” in the Antarctic benthic...

Three of the most important criteria for cryptographically strong Boolean functions are the balancedness the nonlinearity and the propagation criterion This paper studies systematic methods for con structing Boolean functions satisfying some or all of the three criteria We show that concatenating splitting modifying and multiplying se quences can yield balanced Boolean functions with a very hig...

Functional Bisimulations constitute a unifying framework for the equivalence of operational semantics and the correctness of implementations on an abstract machine. In the deterministic setting, functional bisimula-tions are in one-to-one correspondence to partial Lagois Connections with lower sets as domains of deenition. Unlike as for relational bisimulations in concurrency, functional bisimu...

The Incremental Model Reference Adaptive Polynomial Controllers Network (IMRAPCN) is a self-organising non linear controller. This algorithm consists of a Polynomial Controllers Network (PCN) and an Incremental Network Construction (INC). The PCN is a network of polynomial controllers each one being valid for a diierent operating region of the system. The use of polynomial controllers reduces s...

1. Introduction composed of two divergent actions, that is, vasodilation by the stimulated release of NO and other vasodilating The endothelium provides a variety of important func-substances such as EDHF from the endothelium, and direct tions involved in the cardiovascular homeostasis. The vasoconstricting effects on the underlying vascular smooth assessment of endothelial function in humans h...

Background Staging vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) might be useful for sample selection in clinical trials and for guiding clinical decision-making. Clinical dementia rating (CDR) has been applied for staging cognitive impairments of different etiologies, but it may underestimate severity of non-Alzheimer's disease cognitive deficits. Methods Out of a total of 147 elderly subjects, 23 (me...

In this short paper we describe a tool for testing the reliability and robustness of Windows NT soft ware applications under stressful environmental con ditions i e under system resource failure conditions Windows NT systems are increasingly being deployed in mission critical applications such as for command and control in US Navy ships However as re cently as July the Navy s Aegis missile crui...