The number of children with disability is increasing gradually in Japan. Previous researches in other countries have reported that parents as caregivers (CGs) of children with disability have mental health problems, but the actual situation has not been examined nationwide in Japan so far. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between mental health of CGs who had children with d...

A spectrophotometric method for determining cyanogenic glucosides (CGs) was validated in accordance with IUPAC and ICH requirements for new methods. The method demonstrates good linearity in the range of 0.1-0.88 μgg hydrocyanic acid (HCN). The accuracy of the method ranges between 95.2% and 96.4%. The precision of the method, reflected as the relative standard deviation of the replicates, is l...

Chain graphs {CGs) give a natural unifying point of view on Markov and Bayesian net­ works and enlarge the potential of graphi­ cal models for description of conditional in­ dependence structures. In the paper a di­ rect graphical separation criterion for CGs which generalizes the d-separation criteri­ on for Bayesian networks is introduced (re­ called). It is equivalent to the classic mo _ r­ ...

a Center for Natural and Technological Hazards and Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA b United States Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Sonoran Desert Research Station, BioSciences East Building, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA c Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA d Department of Soil, Water and Environmen...

This paper mainly aims at solving the problems of sampled data synchronization in digital substation based on Filed Programable Gate Array (FPGA). Compared with traditional substations, the design achieves data synchronization without connecting an external clock. Synchronization algorithm is based on Newton interpolation algorithm. The system consists of multi-channel data sampling module, syn...

Developing reading comprehension ability is an important aspect in acquisition of a language. The  present  study  focused  on  improving  reading  comprehension  ability  through  Task-based Instruction  (TBI).  TBI  is  a  methodology  that  develops  from  a  focus  on  classroom  tasks.  The participants of the study were 135 Iranian female students at different levels selected from high sc...

  Background :Adenosine is an endogenous purine nucleoside that has a neuromodulatory role in the central nervous system. The amphetamine derivative (±)-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or ecstasy) is a synthetic amphetamine analogue used recreationally to obtain an enhanced affiliated emotional response. MDMA is a potent monoaminergic neurotoxin with the potential of damage to brain neu...

In this study, the ability of the Capillary-attached conductive gas sensor (CGS) in real-time gas identification was investigated. The structure of the prototype fabricated CGS is presented. Portions were selected from the beginning of the CGS transient response including the first 11 samples to the first 100 samples. Different feature extraction and classification methods were applied on the s...

The nature of compact groups (CGs) of galaxies, apparently so dense that the galaxies often overlap, is still a subject of debate: Are CGs roughly as dense in 3D as they appear in projection? Or are they caused by chance alignments of galaxies along the line-of-sight, within larger virialized groups or even longer filamentary structures? The nature of CGs is re-appraised using the redshift zero...

Previous work has demonstrated a straightforward mapping from Conceptual Graphs (CGs) to Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), and the combined benefits these types of Conceptual Structures bring in capturing and reasoning about the semantics in system design. As in that work, a CGs Transaction Model (or `Transaction Graph’) exemplar is used, but in the form of a richer Financial Trading (FT) case stu...