Maternal nutrient intake during pregnancy and lactation potentially influences the development of allergic diseases. Cows' milk allergy (CMA) is often the first manifestation of atopic diseases, but the impact of early nutritional influences on CMA has not been explored. The associations between maternal intakes of folate, folic acid and vitamin D during pregnancy and lactation were addressed i...

In recent years, along with rapid developments in technology, computer systems haveincreasingly become more integrated and more modular. Indeed, the reliability and efficiency ofcomputer systems are of high significance. Hence, the quantitative evaluation of the optimizationof reliability indexes in computer systems is considered to be a crucial issue. Reliabilityenhancement of computer systems...

This paper presents an initialization scheme for a constant modulus algorithm (CMA) adaptive antenna. With the proposed scheme, the direction of arrival (DOA) of signals is estimated by using nonconventional least square optimization. The antenna steering vector associated with the estimated DOA is used as an initial weight vector for CMA. Simulations were conducted to evaluate the performance ...

Adaptive blind equalization for multipath channels has gained widespread intention in wireless communication applications. Unfortunately, inherent distortion in multipath channel requires sophisticated equalization algorithms. Thus, computational complexity reduction has motivated the use of dithered signed-error constant modulus algorithm (DSE-CMA) to replace the widely used CMA algorithm. In ...

This study used an online concept mapping activity (CMA) featuring peer learning to enhance learning achievement in concept application. Ninety-seven graduate students participated in this study. The students who participated in the online CMA could later apply the concepts with significantly higher performance and greater fidelity than those who did not. Findings of this study advance CMA for ...

a computer software was designed to facilitate identification of nematode species. the first section of the computer program was prepared to identify the species of the genus criconemoides. nemidsoft can be easily installed on personal computers with a minimal requirements. the software can be edited by users and developed and generalized to other genera of the nematodes. by having the morpholo...

Psychomotor disturbances are a classic feature of major depressive disorders. These can manifest as lack of facial expressions and decreased speech production, reduced body posture and mobility, and slowed voluntary movement. The neural correlates of psychomotor disturbances in depression are poorly understood but it has been suggested that outputs from the cingulate motor area (CMA) to striata...

Firstly, chitin was modified via ring-opening reaction with maleic anhydride in lithium chloride/ N,N-dimethylacetamide. Then, both chitin and chitin modified with maleic anhydride (CMA) were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) method, ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Thermogravimetric analysi...