Domestic violence (DV) is quite prevalent and negatively impacts the health and mental wellbeing of those affected. Victims of DV are frequent users of health service, yet they are infrequently recognized. Physicians tend to treat the presenting complaints without addressing the root cause of the problem. Lack of knowledge on adequately managing cases of DV and on appropriate ways to help survi...

Linear decreasing inertia weight (LDIW) strategy was introduced to improve on the performance of the original particle swarm optimization (PSO). However, linear decreasing inertia weight PSO (LDIW-PSO) algorithm is known to have the shortcoming of premature convergence in solving complex (multipeak) optimization problems due to lack of enough momentum for particles to do exploitation as the alg...

Cloud storage is now an important development trend in information technology. However, information security has become an important problem to impede it for commercial application, such as data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. In this paper, we propose designated verifier provable data possession (DV-PDP). In public clouds, DV-PDP is a matter of crucial importance when the client ...

Lower and upper bounds of the μ Cebyšev functional for the RiemannStieltjes integral are given. Applications for the three point quadrature rules of functions that are n time di¤erentiable are also provided. 1. Introduction In 1975, P.R. Beesack [1] showed that, if y; v; w are real valued functions de…ned on a compact interval [a; b] ; where w is of bounded variation with total variation Wb a (...

Dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome, the major life-threatening outcomes of severe dengue disease, are the consequence of plasma leakage in the vascular areas. We previously demonstrated that dengue virus (DV)-infected dendritic cells (DC) trigger vascular leakage through matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 overproduction, however little is known concerning the consequences of direc...

The composition of chlorophyll-precursor pigments, particularly the contents of monovinyl (MV) and divinyl (DV) protochlorophyllides (Pchlides), in etiolated tissues of higher plants were determined by polyethylene-column HPLC (Y. Shioi, S. I. Beale [1987] Anal Biochem 162: 493-499), which enables the complete separation of these pigments. DV-Pchlide was ubiquitous in etiolated tissue of higher...

The high prevalence of domestic violence (DV) among married women in India and associated negative health repercussions highlight the need for effective prevention strategies and tools to measure the efficacy of such interventions. Literature supporting differing manifestations of DV by culture underscores the need for a culturally-tailored scale to more effectively measure DV in the Indian con...

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) was used to measure local differential conductance (dI/dV) spectra on nanometer-size graphene islands on an Ir(111) surface. Energy resolved dI/dV maps clearly show a spatial modulation, which we ascribe to a modulated local density of states due to quantum confinement. STS near graphene edges indicates a position dependence of the dI/dV signals, which sugg...

the atom-bond connectivity index of graph is a topological index proposed by estrada et al.as abc (g)  uve (g ) (du dv  2) / dudv , where the summation goes over all edges ofg, du and dv are the degrees of the terminal vertices u and v of edge uv. in the present paper,some upper bounds for the second type of atom-bond connectivity index are computed.

This paper presents a modification of the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) intended to combat the problem of premature convergence observed in many applications of PSO. In the new algorithm, each particle is attracted towards the best previous positions visited by its neighbors, in addition to the other aspects of particle dynamics in PSO. This is accomplished by using the ratio of t...