Breast cancer is a significant health problem for women globally; however, timely detection can reduce female morbidity and mortality. Early breast screening has become imperative all women, though, adequate facilities are necessarily required in developing countries like Pakistan, where leading cause of death. To encounter this chronic disease, various image processing techniques have been int...

tehran the capital city of iran, with a population of about 8 million and an area of over 700 km2 is one of the most polluted metropolises in the world. tehran is suffering from a tremendous reduction in its sink capacity for absorption and assimilation of pollution which is generally due to uncontrolled urban sprawl and failure in consideration of ecological aspects into regional land use plan...

The highway slope failures are triggered by the rainfall, namely, to create the disaster. However, forecasting the failure of highway slop is difficult because of nonlinear time dependency and seasonal effects, which affect the slope displacements. Starting from the artificial neural networks ANNs since the mid-1990s, an effective means is suggested to judge the stability of slope by forecastin...

Let Mmn =Mmn(F) denote the set of all m× n matrices over a field F, and fix some n×m matrix A ∈ Mnm. An associative operation ? may be defined on Mmn by X ? Y = XAY for all X,Y ∈ Mmn, and the resulting sandwich semigroup is denoted Mmn = Mmn(F). In this article, we study Mmn as well as its subsemigroups Reg(Mmn) and EA mn (consisting of all regular elements and products of idempotents, respecti...

The objective of this study was to analyze the behavior of autonomic modulation before, during and after the Modified Wingate Test (WanMT), through the analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV). Six volunteers between the ages of 40 and 70, post-revascularization procedures (angioplasty and/or surgery, mean duration 10 months), were submitted to supervised training for at least 10 to 14 months. ...

Cognitive approach through the neural network “NN” paradigm is a critical discipline that will help bring about autonomic computing “AC.” NN-related research, some involving new ways to apply control theory and control laws, can provide insight into how to run complex systems that optimize to their environments. NN is one kind of AC system that can embody human cognitive powers and that can ada...

The accurate perception of lexical tones in tonal languages involves the processing of both acoustic information and phonological information carried by the tonal signal. In this study we evaluated the relative role of the two types of information in native Chinese speaker's processing of tones at a preattentive stage with event-related potentials (ERPs), particularly the mismatch negativity (M...

The title compound, {[Mn(3)(C(10)H(5)O(7))(2)(C(10)H(8)N(2))(2)]·H(2)O}(n), was synthesized under hydro-thermal conditions. Six carboxyl-ate groups of six 5-(carboxyl-atometh-oxy)benzene-1,3-dicarboxyl-ate anions (OABDC(3-)) join three Mn(II) ions into a trinuclear centrosymmetric [Mn(3)(μ(2)-COO)(6)] unit with one Mn site situated on a centre of inversion. The latter Mn(II) ion exhibits a dist...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart analysis. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to describe the senior author's (MNN) experience applying a widely available surgical drape as a postoperative sterile surgical site dressing for both cranial and spinal procedures. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Surgical site infection (SSI) is an important complication of spine surgery that can result in signi...