PURPOSE The aim of this study is to explore differences between male and female patients entering a rehabilitation program at a pain clinic in order to gain a greater understanding of different approaches to be used in rehabilitation. METHOD 1371 patients referred to a specialty pain rehabilitation clinic, completed sociodemographic and pain related questionnaires. They rated their pain accep...

Suicide gene therapy has met limited success for the treatment of rat pituitary tumors. In order to determine the cause of primary pituitary tumor resistance to suicide gene therapy, we studied the transgene expression of an adenoviral (Ad.RSV.beta gal.nls) and a herpes simplex virus-derived (tsK/beta-gal) vector, both harboring the beta-galactosidase reporter gene in rat prolactinomas. Rats ca...

This paper presents an adaptive stable generalized predictive control using Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy model for nonlinear discrete-time with time-delay systems. This controller is composed of a fuzzy second-order time-delay identifier with on-line parameter estimation, and a stable generalized predictive control with abilities of accurate tracking and disturbance rejection. Numerical simul...

Each part of a mobile robot has particular aspects of its own, which must be integrated in order to successfully conclude a specific task. Among these parts, sensing enables to construct a representation of landmarks of the surroundings with the goal of supplying relevant information for the robot’s navigation. The present work describes the architecture of a perception system based on data fus...

The continental silicon (Si) cycle, including terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems (lakes, rivers, estuaries), acts as a filter modulates the amount of Si transported to oceans. In order link variation in cycle aquatic ecosystems, knowledge on changes vegetation cover, soil disturbance impact human activity are required. This study varved lake sediments from Tiefer See near Klocksin (TSK) nort...

Actual evapotranspiration (ET) with high spatiotemporal resolution is very important for the research on agricultural water resource management and cycle processes, it helpful to realize precision agriculture smart agriculture, provides critical references layout planning. Due impact of clouds, weather environment, orbital period optical satellite, there are difficulties in providing daily remo...

Several authors have argued that skin blood flow (SkBF) during exercise is less than during rest at the same levels of body core and whole-body skin temperatures (Tc and Tsk). Since such an effect does not prevent SkBF during exercise from rising above pre-exercise levels, it is sometimes called a relative cutaneous vasoconstriction. Such a vasoconstriction is considered to be either part of a ...

Effects of the menstrual cycle on heat loss and heat production (M) and core and skin temperature responses to cold were studied in six unacclimatized female nonsmokers (18-29 yr of age). Each woman, resting supine, was exposed to a cold transient (ambient temperature = mean radiant temperature = 20 to -5 degrees C at -0.32 degrees C/min, relative humidity = 50 +/- 2%, wind speed = 1 m/s) in th...

This paper presents the application of Parallel Genetic Algorithm (PGA)-based Takagi Sugeno Kang (TSK)-Fuzzy approach for dynamic car-following modeling in the traffic simulation software. It differs from the usual car-following model significantly as the proposed model provides a more dynamic car movement and realistic headway by considering the driver progressive level factor. These two advan...

This work presents the use of local fuzzy prototypes as a new idea to obtain accurate local semantics-based Takagi–Sugeno–Kang ~TSK! rules. This allow us to start from prototypes considering the interaction between input and output variables and taking into account the fuzzy nature of the TSK rules. To do so, a two-stage evolutionary algorithm based on MOGUL ~a methodology to obtain Genetic Fuz...