In order to establish a highly efficient P system for resolving clustering problems and overcome the computation incompleteness implementation difficulty of systems, an attractive membrane system, integrated with enhanced particle swarm optimization (PSO) based on environmental factors crossover operators distributed parallel computing model monodirectional tissue-like systems (MTP), is constru...

background: myofascial pain syndrome is a significant source of mechanical pain. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of arm movement on reaction time in females with latent and active upper trapezius myofascial trigger point. methods: in this interventional study, a convenience sample of fifteen women with one active mtp, fifteen women with one latent mtp in the upper trapezius...

Min. hip  – – 0.12 0.11 0.06 0.22 – – – – – – Min. knee  – – – – 0.15 0.28 – – 0.11 0.17 0.10 0.17 Min. ankle  0.06 –0.06 – – 0.10 0.30 0.10 –0.05 – – – – Min. MTP  0.15 0.20 – – 0.05 0.17 0.10 0.09 – – – – Min. rotation  – – – – – – – – 0.14 0.22 0.15 0.17 Total  swept hip – – – – 0.09 0.16 – – – – – – Total  swept knee – – – – – – – – 0.08 0.17 0.07 0.20 Total  swept ankle 0.10 –0.04 ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this retrospective study is to clarify the difference in plantar pressure distribution during walking and related patient-based outcomes between forefoot joint-preserving arthroplasty and resection-replacement arthroplasty in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Four groups of patients were recruited. Group1 included 22 feet of 11 healthy controls (age 48.6 ...

Chemotherapeutic agents have been shown to enhance the antitumor activity of biological response modifiers and cytokines in rodents and humans. The purpose of this study was 2-fold: (a) to determine whether doxorubicin (DOX) would enhance or interfere with the effect of muramyl dipeptide and lipopolysaccharide on canine monocyte activation as measured by an in vitro WEHI-164 cell cytotoxicity a...

BACKGROUND Disruption of the plantar plate of the lesser metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joints leads to significant instability. Despite the fact that plantar plate disorders are common, the best mode of treatment remains controversial with operative treatments having variable and somewhat unpredictable clinical outcomes. METHODS Lesser MTP joints from the second, third, and fourth toes from fresh...

The small sample size problem and the difficulty in determining the optimal reduced dimension limit the application of subspace learning methods in the gait recognition domain. To address the two issues, we propose a novel algorithm named multi-linear tensor-based learning without tuning parameters (MTP) for gait recognition. In MTP, we first employ a new method for automatic selection of the o...

Peripheral blood monocytes were isolated from normal human donors by separation on a continuous Percoll gradient and adherence to yield preparations of blood monocytes with a high degree of purity (greater than 99%). The monocytes were incubated in vitro with medium alone or with multilamellar liposomes that contained either a lipophilic derivative of muramyl dipeptide, muramyl tripeptide (MTP-...

Excessive production of triglyceride-rich VLDL, which can result from dietary overindulgence, underlies metabolic syndrome--a combination of disorders including high blood pressure, obesity, high triglyceride, and insulin resistance--and places individuals at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. However, the link between VLDL overproduction and insulin resist...

This is the first clinical implementation of the Multistate Tuberculosis Pharmacometric (MTP) model describing fast-, slow-, and nonmultiplying bacterial states of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Colony forming unit data from 19 patients treated with rifampicin were analyzed. A previously developed rifampicin population pharmacokinetic (PK) model was linked to the MTP model previously developed usi...