Background: Bedside ABC/2 methods of measuring intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) volumes are valuable clinical and research tools. The two most common methods of bedside calculation are the ABC/2 formula and the sABC/2 formula. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 142 consecutive spontaneous ICH patients admitted to our institution from November 1, 2009 to October 1, 2010. ICH volume was calculate...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Discussion 3.1. ABC lipid transporters 3.1.2. Macrophage ABC lipid transporters 3.1.3. ABC transporter mediated lipid export from the liver 3.2. ABCA1 is a key regulator of HDL metabolism and cellular cholesterol and phospholipid export 3.2.1. ABCA1 mediated cholesterol trafficking and caveolae 3.2.2. ABCA1 and NPC1: two major regulators of cellular cholesterol tr...

This paper presents a new strategy based on Multi-stage Fuzzy (MSF) PID controller based on Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) for damping Power System Stabilizer (PSS) in multi-machine environment. The recent studies in artificial intelligence demonstrated that the ABC optimization is strong intelligent method in complicated stability problems. Also, finding the parameters of PID controller in power ...

This paper presents a new strategy based on Multi-stage Fuzzy (MSF) PID controller based on Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) for damping Power System Stabilizer (PSS) in multi-machine environment. The recent studies in artificial intelligence demonstrated that the ABC optimization is strong intelligent method in complicated stability problems. Also, finding the parameters of PID controller in power ...

This study assesses opportunities and benefits presented by enterprise resource planning (ERP) in terms of leveraging technology to improve the business of government in the City of El Paso, specifically with respect to activity based costing (ABC) within its ERP system. ABC and ERP, in tandem, can provide reasonably accurate and useful government services cost information for planning and deci...

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm has been a well-known swarm intelligence algorithm, which assimilates the cooperating behavior of bees when seeking for nectar sources. Aiming to improve the conventional ABC algorithm, we focus on the re-initialization phase. In this paper, an overall-degradation-oriented artificial bee colony (OD-ABC) algorithm is proposed, pursuing to fight against p...

Brucellosis is a prevalent zoonotic disease and is endemic in the Middle East, South America, and other areas of the world. In this study, complete inventories of putative functional ABC systems of five Brucella species have been compiled and compared. ABC systems of Brucella melitensis 16M, Brucella abortus 9-941, Brucella canis RM6/66, Brucella suis 1330, and Brucella ovis 63/290 were identif...

Textbook authors and publishers face a difficult decision regarding coverage of activity-based costing (ABC). ABC could be presented in strictly positive terms because it enjoyed immense popularity when it was introduced in the 1980s, and it is still presented in favourable terms in practitioner journals. On the other hand, it is possible to criticize ABC on practical and theoretical grounds. I...