UNLABELLED This study was undertaken in order to determine the influence of chronic ethanol administration on pancreatic regeneration during acute pancreatitis (AP). Rats were pair fed with isocaloric diet containing or not ethanol. After 8 weeks of such feeding AP was induced by s.c. injection of caerulein (Cae). 6 h, 24 h and 5 days after first Cae dose pancreatic weight, amylase, chymotrypsi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical and angiographic profile of patients with coronary artery ectasias (CAE) and assess their outcomes. METHODS One year retrospective and one year prospective study was carried out in the Department of Cardiology in CMC, Ludhiana from January 2011 to December 2012 on all patients undergoing coronary angiographies and each patient was followed up for 1 year. Their...

Aim Investigation the frequency and contribution of coronary artery aneurysm/ectasia in addition to their correlation with coronary artery disease (CAD). Material and methods We retrospectively evaluated the coronary angiography records of 6500 adult consecutive patients, and 418 of them were met inclusion criteria and used in the present study. The CAD was defined as the presence of angiogra...

This paper provides an approach for recognizing human activities with wearable sensors. The continuous autoencoder (CAE) as a novel stochastic neural network model is proposed which improves the ability of model continuous data. CAE adds Gaussian random units into the improved sigmoid activation function to extract the features of nonlinear data. In order to shorten the training time, we propos...

Sustainability evaluation is typically conducted after the product is completely designed. However, sustainability, like cost and weight, needs to be managed on a continuous basis, throughout the product development cycle. This requires a decision support tool that provides sustainability analyses estimates at early design phases to guide detailed design. Such a decision support tool can be fac...

BACKGROUND Treatment nonadherence in people with schizophrenia is associated with relapse and homelessness. Building on the usefulness of long-acting medication and our work in psychosocial interventions to enhance adherence, we conducted a prospective uncontrolled trial of customized adherence enhancement (CAE) plus long-acting injectable antipsychotic (LAI) using haloperidol decanoate in 30 h...

In mechatronic systems, which consist of smart motion controllers, actuators and mechanisms, different technologies, like analog and digital electronics, mechanics and hydraulics, interact with each other. Through the integration of the various technologies, a more optimal product can be obtained. By the use of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tools throughout the complete design process, bette...

Numerical simulations have become crucial during the product development process (PDP) for predicting and validating different properties of new products as well as the simulation of various kinds of natural phenomena. Especially the engineering domain (CAE – Computer Aided Engineering), is seeking for new ICT solutions to cover broad ranges of physical simulations. Virtual Reality (VR) has mat...

The success of supervised deep neural networks (DNNs) in speech recognition cannot be transferred to zero-resource languages where the requisite transcriptions are unavailable. We investigate unsupervised neural network based methods for learning frame-level representations. Good frame representations eliminate differences in accent, gender, channel characteristics, and other factors to model s...