OBJECTIVE Childhood-onset GH deficiency (COGHD) is associated with low bone mineral density (BMD). Adults with persistent COGHD may be at risk for insufficient bone accrual or bone loss during adulthood. The purpose of this study was to identify BMD predictors and to characterize the effects of GH replacement on BMD in COGHD adults with persistent GHD. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of the KIM...

We formulate the well-known economic lot scheduling problem (ELSP) with sequence dependent setup times and costs as a semi-Markov decision process. Using an affine approximation of the bias function, we obtain a semi-infinite linear program determining a lower bound for the minimum average cost rate. Under a very mild condition, we can reduce this problem to a relatively small convex quadratica...

the polynomial interpolation in one dimensional space r is an important method to approximate the functions. the lagrange and newton methods are two well known types of interpolations. in this work, we describe the semi inherited interpolation for approximating the values of a function. in this case, the interpolation matrix has the semi inherited lu factorization.

The radiation pattern of a line source is calculated for the case where the source is lying on the top or the bottom surface of a lossless dielectric substrate that is mounted on the top of a semi-infinite dielectric medium. It is found that in both cases the pattern along interfaces has a null; that the pattern in the upper semi-infinite medium has a single lobe; and that the pattern in the lo...

His professional expertise encompasses control engineering and dynamics mainly in theoretical aspects. His current research topics are the semi-active control of civil structures, the interaction between system identification and controller design, the integrated design of structural and control systems and the application of control engineering and robotics to human motion analysis. RMS value ...

For the non-cardiologist emergency physician and intensivist, performing an accurate estimation of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is essential for the management of critically ill patients, such as patients presenting with shock, severe respiratory distress or chest pain. Our objective was to develop a semi-quantitative method to improve visual LVEF evaluation. A group of 12 sets of ...

This paper investigates semi-online scheduling problems on two parallel machines under a grade of service (GoS) provision subject to minimize the makespan. We consider three different semi-online versions with knowing the total processing time of the jobs with higher GoS level, knowing the total processing time of the jobs with lower GoS level, or knowing both in advance. Respectively, for the ...

in this study, depositional environment and provenance of sandstones of the surijeh formation (lower cretaceous) in the abgarm section in the kopet-dagh basin are investigated. analysis of sedimentary facies in this section shows that there are two clastic (continental and coastal plain) and two carbonate (coastal plain) facies associations are present. the results of modal analysis and geochem...

This paper introduces a new annotated corpus based on an existing informal text corpus: the NUS SMS Corpus (Chen and Kan, 2013). The new corpus includes 76,490 noun phrases from 26,500 SMS messages, annotated by university students. We then explored several graphical models, including a novel variant of the semi-Markov conditional random fields (semi-CRF) for the task of noun phrase chunking. W...