BACKGROUND Telehealth strategies for asthma have focused primarily on adherence to controller medications. Telemonitoring of short-acting β-agonist (SABA) focuses on patterns of use and may allow more timely action to avert exacerbations. Studies assessing this approach are lacking. OBJECTIVE This pragmatic controlled study was designed to measure real-world effectiveness of the Propeller Hea...

Few studies have attempted to evaluate the relationship between peritoneal permeability and fluid status in peritoneal dialysis (PD). The aim of the present study was to clarify the relationship between change in the dialysate-to-plasma ratio of creatinine (D/P Cr) and change in fluid status as evaluated by natriuretic peptides. We studied 49 PD patients (29 men, 62 ± 11 years, 36.7% with diabe...

Let k be a commutative ring and let R be a commutative k−algebra. Given a positive integer n and a R−algebra A one can consider three functors of points from the category CR of commutative R−algebras to the small category of sets. All these functors are representable, namely • RepA represents the functor induced by B → homR(A,Mn(B)), where Mn(B) are the n× n matrices over B, for all B ∈ CR. • t...

In this paper, we introduce a structure-based neural network architecture, namely RC-Struct, for MIMO-OFDM symbol detection. The RC-Struct exploits the temporal structure of signals through reservoir computing (RC). A binary classifier leverages repetitive constellation in system to perform multi-class incorporation RC allows be learned purely online fashion with extremely limited pilot symbols...

The surrogate process approximation (SPA) is applied to model the nonequilibrium dynamics of a reaction coordinate (RC) associated with the unfolding and refolding processes of a deca-alanine peptide at 300 K. The RC dynamics, which correspond to the evolution of the end-to-end distance of the polypeptide, are produced by steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations and approximated using overd...

High-performance computing (HPC) systems with hardware-reconfigurable devices have the potential to achieve major performance increases over parallel computing systems based solely on traditional processors. However, providing services upon which users of traditional HPC systems have come to depend is essential for largescale reconfigurable computing (RC) systems to become mainstream. Along wit...

New analytical and the speedup models for evaluating the performance of a generic reconfigurable coprocessor (RC) system are presented. We present a generic performance model for the speedup of a generic RC system. We demonstrate how different parameters of speedup model can affect the performance of reconfigurable system (RS). In addition, we implement our pre-developed speedup model for a sys...

Rana catesbeiana ribonuclease (RC-RNase) is a pyrimidine-guanine sequence-specific ribonuclease found in R. catesbeiana (bullfrog) oocytes. It possesses both ribonuclease activity and cytotoxicity against tumor cells. We report here for the first time the cloning of RC-RNase cDNA from liver rather than from oocytes where RC-RNase is stored. An internal fragment of cDNA was obtained by reverse t...

Literature data from experiments with lactating dairy cows offered silage-based diets was reviewed to evaluate the effects of the grassland legume species Trifolium repens (WC, white clover), Trifolium pratense (RC, red clover) and Medicago sativa (M, lucerne) on feed intake, milk production and milk quality. Seven data sets were created to compare grass silage (G) with grassland legumes in gen...