OBJECTIVE The combination of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and long-acting β₂-agonist is recommended for treatment of patients with persistent asthma inadequately controlled on ICS monotherapy. This study was conducted to evaluate the long-term safety of mometasone furoate/formoterol (MF/F) administered through metered-dose inhaler (MDI) in patients with persistent asthma previously on medium- t...

This paper develops some mollification formulas involving convolutions between popular radial basis function (RBF) basic functions Φ, and suitable mollifiers. Polyharmonic splines, scaled Bessel kernels (Matern functions) and compactly supported basic functions are considered. A typical result is that in Rd the convolution of | • |β and (•2 + c2)−(β+2d)/2 is the generalized multiquadric (•2 + c...

The accuracy of interpolation by a radial basis function φ is usually very satisfactory provided that the approximant f is reasonably smooth. However, for functions which have smoothness below a certain order associated with the basis function φ, no approximation power has yet been established. Hence, the purpose of this study is to discuss the Lp-approximation order (1 ≤ p ≤ ∞) of interpolatio...

Ion–molecule reactions between neutral methyl formate (MF) and proton-bound solvent clusters W2H+, W3H+, M2H+, E2H+, E3H+ (W = water, M methanol, E ethanol) showed that the major reaction product is a molecule loss from initial encounter complex, followed by formation of protonated (MFH+). Collision-induced dissociation breakdown curves initially formed solvent-MF pairs trimers were obtained as...

In this article, we propose a simplified radial basis function (RBF) method with exterior fictitious sources for solving elliptic boundary value problems (BVPs). Three RBFs, including Gaussian, multiquadric (MQ), and inverse (IMQ) without the shape parameter, are adopted in study. With consideration of many outside domain, distance RBF is always greater than zero, such that can remove parameter...

Purpose Recent evidence suggests structural changes distal to the inner retina in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The functional correlates of these proposed structural abnormalities remain unclear. We investigated outer retinal function and structure in MS patients, and quantified to what extent outer retinal structure influenced function in these patients. Methods Outer retinal function w...

The present research work deals with a logistic membership function (MF), within non-linear MFs, in finding out fuzziness patterns in disparate level of satisfaction for Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) problem. This MF is a modified form of general set of S-curve MF. Flexibility of this MF in applying to real world problem has also been validated through a detailed analysis. An example...