In this paper, an attempt is made to apply the African Buffalo Optimization (ABO) to tune the parameters of a PID controller for an effective Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR). Existing metaheuristic tuning methods have been proven to be quite successful but there were observable areas that need improvements especially in terms of the system's gain overshoot and steady steady state errors. Usin...

BACKGROUND The major challenge in ABO-incompatible transplantation is to minimize antibody-mediated rejection. Effective reduction of the anti-ABO blood group antibodies at the time of transplantation has made ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation a growing practice in our hospital and in centers worldwide. ABO antibodies result from contact with A- and B-like antigens in the intestines via n...

titers were controlled after each ABO-incompatible transfusion using standard laboratory techniques. In the case of O/A recipientdonor blood group constellation we started adsorption of recipients’ Anti-A with one or two units of A2-RBCs followed by transfusion of A1-RBCs with a higher number of A-antigens per RBC. Using the technique of in vivo adsorption of isoagglutinins recipients’ anti-A o...

Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has been mostly reported in situations involving major ABO incompatibility between donor and recipient. Conventional treatments such as plasma exchange, erythropoietin, and steroid are often unsatisfactory. Rituximab has been reported to be highly effective for PRCA following major ABO-incompatible ...

Abstract Date Presented 04/20/2023 Children with unilateral weakness may demonstrate improved functional goal achievement less dosage requirement when constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is paired transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS), indicating burden to participants and encouraging translation OT clinical practice. Primary Author Speaker: Patricia Coker-Bolt Additio...

BACKGROUND As antigen-specific immunoadsorption (IA) using the Glycosorb®-ABO columns is becoming increasingly popular in ABO-incompatible (ABOi) transplantation, in this study, we retrospectively investigated the efficacy of Glycosorb®-ABO IA in vivo and ex vivo. We also assessed the risk of anti-A/B antibody (ABab) rebound before and after ABOi kidney transplantation. METHODS A protocol for...

<span lang="EN-US">The use of support vector regression (SVR) for tasks has been on increase over the past few years. Unfortunately, practical application SVR task is limited due to its dependence proper setting hyper-parameters and associated kernel parameter. Therefore, it become imperative device a reliable fast mechanism determining value these parameters that could guarantee lowest g...

The ABO blood group distribution varies in different geographical and ethnic groups. In Punjab (India), the ABO blood frequency is B>O>A>AB. The current study was an attempt to correlate the ABO blood group frequency with preponderance of breast and gastrointestinal cancer in Punjab, to assess the utility of ABO blood group as a preclinical marker. The study sample consists of 160 cancer patien...

The influence of blood group types on development of brain tumors is unclear since there are conflicting reports from surveys regarding the distribution of ABO blood groups and primary intracranial neoplasms. The present descriptive, retrospective study was therefore made of 907 patients with reliable records for ABO blood groups and proven histological diagnosis who were hospitalized with brai...

Transfusion of about 60 ml of ABO incompatible plasma in 4 units of pooled platelets precipitated severe haemolysis, unmasking the emergence of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH), in a patient with aplastic anaemia. In vitro tests showed that her red cells were lysed by both ABO compatible and incompatible plasma from normal donors. The behaviour of this case and the in vitro results su...