In this paper, we propose the SOR network with fuzzy inference based evaluation inspired by brain function. In the proposed method, controller design and knowledge acquisition are achieved simultaneously. All the designer has to do is to describe evaluation rules for the input/output data set sampled by trial and error. In the description process, only designer’s commonsense knowledge is requir...

No evidence clearly supports the practice of increased fetal surveillance in the pregnancies of women with well-controlled (ie, fasting blood sugar <105 mg/dL) class A1 gestational diabetes (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, consistent retrospective cohort studies). However, a number of guidelines recommend beginning surveillance of some kind between 32 and 40 weeks based on cumulative risk ...

Rationale This study explored subtypes of sensory processing disorder (SPD) by examining the clinical presentations of cluster groups that emerged from scores of children with SPD on the Sensory Processing 3-Dimension (SP-3D) Inventory. Method A nonexperimental design was used involving data extraction from the records of 252 children with SPD. Exploratory cluster analyses were conducted with...

A curious phenomenon when it comes to solving the linear system formulation of the PageRank problem is that while the convergence rate of Gauss–Seidel shows an improvement over Jacobi by a factor of approximately two, successive overrelaxation (SOR) does not seem to offer a meaningful improvement over Gauss–Seidel. This has been observed experimentally and noted in the literature, but to the be...

Sulfite, produced for instance during amino acid metabolism, is a very reactive and toxic compound. Various detoxification mechanisms exist, but sulfite oxidoreductases (SORs) are one of the major actors in sulfite remediation in bacteria and animals. Here we describe the existence of an operon in the extreme thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB8 encoding both a SOR and a diheme c-typ...

Received Nov 30, 2017 Revised Feb 8, 2018 Accepted Feb 25, 2018 Submarine Wireless Sensor Networks (SWSNs) have earned important concentration of both university and manufacturing in current years. In this paper, we introduce intensity and trustworthiness awake delay perspective (ITADP) routing protocol for submarine WSNs. We get inspiration from Submarine Opportunistic Routing (SOR) protocol t...

No large-scale randomized, placebo-controlled trials evaluate furosemide's effect on mortality and long-term morbidity in diastolic or systolic dysfunction. In short-term studies, furosemide reduces edema, reduces hospitalizations, and improves exercise capacity in the setting of systolic dysfunction (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, based upon low-quality randomized controlled trials). Fur...

How the survey began The SOR is composed of two resident representatives from each Canadian family medicine (FM) residency program. Since 1995, the SOR’s Survey Committee has surveyed FM residents across the country about their residencies. The CFPC developed a comprehensive database on family physicians through the Janus Project: Family Physicians Meeting the Needs of Tomorrow’s Society in 199...

For children with primary nocturnal enuresis, treatment with enuresis alarms reduced the number of wet nights by almost 4 per week, with almost half of patients remaining dry for 3 months after treatment (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, based on a systematic review of homogeneous randomized control trials [RCTs]). Desmopressin (DDAVP) and tricyclic drugs reduce the number of wet nights by ...

The eigenvalue problem Ax = \Bx, where A and B are large and sparse symmetric matrices, is considered. An iterative algorithm for computing the smallest eigenvalue and its corresponding eigenvector, based on the successive overrelaxation splitting of the matrices, is developed, and its global convergence is proved. An expression for the optimal overrelaxation factor is found in the case where A...