Optimal Design of Demand-Responsive Feeder Transit Services. (August 2009) Xiugang Li, B.E., Southeast University; M.E., Southeast University; D.E., Southeast University Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Luca Quadrifoglio Dr. Yunlong Zhang The general public considers Fixed-Route Transit (FRT) to be inconvenient while Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) provides much of the desired flexibility w...

The use of Dermal Regeneration Template (DRT) can be a valid alternative for scalp reconstruction, especially in elderly patients where a rapid procedure with an acceptable aesthetic and reliable functional outcome is required. We reviewed the surgical outcome of 20 patients, 14 (70%) males and 6 (30%) females, who underwent application of DRT for scalp reconstruction for small defects (group A...

Parkinson Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease for which no cure is available yet. It is the second largest neurological disease affecting an estimated 571 per 100,000 people in Europe with rising prevalence due to the aging population (Pringsheim et al., 2014). To date, dopaminereplacement therapy (DRT) is the first choice of treatment to lessen the impact of motor and non-motor symptom...

In this paper, I argue that the DRT Construction Rules for plural antecedents are redundant, because they are subsumed by an inference mechanism that must be made generally available for anaphora resolution. While Kamp and Reyle originally argued against a general inference mechanism for plural anaphora, I argue that the facts of compset anaphora require inference. Furthermore, I observe that c...

Dopamine depletion in the putamen is associated with altered motor network functional connectivity in people with Parkinson's disease (PD), but the functional significance of these changes remains unclear, attributed to either pathological or compensatory mechanisms in different studies. Here, we examined the effects of PD on dorsal caudal putamen functional connectivity, off and on dopamine re...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical features, treatment(s), and outcomes of 15 HIV-infected patients with idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD) and sustained virus suppression and immunologic reconstitution, from a reference cohort of 9847 persons living with HIV (PLH). METHODS This retrospective, single-center matched case-control 1:2 study included PLH-PD patients evaluated over a 12-year period...

BACKGROUND Among various methods of age estimation using dental tissues, measurement of root dentin translucency (RDT) is said to be the most accurate. Numerous studies have estimated age by measuring RDT in single and double rooted teeth and have shown conflicting results. Only few studies have compared efficacy of using single and double rooted teeth for RDT measurement in age estimation. A...

[Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to clarify the effect of dyspnea induced by breath-holding on maximum muscular strength of patients with COPD. [Subjects] This study recruited 14 COPD subjects via public posting. [Methods] Dyspnea was assessed by the modified Borg scale. The subject asked to stop breathing at end-expiration and to hold their breath with a nose clip for as long as ...

In this paper we study the impact on productivity of specific operating practices currently used by demand responsive transit (DRT) providers. We investigate the effect of using a zoning vs. a no-zoning strategy and time-window settings on performance measures such as total trip miles, deadhead miles and fleet size. It is difficult to establish closed form expressions to assess the impact on th...

In this article, we propose a determinant ratio test (DRT) statistic to measure the similarity of two covariance matrices for unsupervised change detection in polarimetric radar images. The multilook complex matrix is assumed follow scaled Wishart distribution. doing so, provide distribution DRT that exactly Wilks’s lambda second kind distribution, with density expressed terms Meijer G-function...