lar thickness using optical coherence tomography (OCT) in macular edema associated with various retinal vascular disorders. ME T H O D S. This prospective nonrandomized clinical interventional study included 81 eyes (76 patients) comprised of Group I, 57 eyes (51 patients) with diabetic macular edema; Group II, 10 eyes (10 patients) with branch retinal vein occlusion; and Group III, 13 eyes (13...

System level diagnosis that can identify the faulty units in the system was introduced by Preparata, Metze, and Chien [1]. In this area, the fundamental problem is to decide the diagnosability of given networks. We study the diagnosability of networks represented by the cartesian product. Our result is the optimal one with respect to the restriction of degrees of vertices of graphs that represe...

We study several multi-criteria undirected network design problems with node costs and lengths with all problems related to the node costs Multicommodity Buy at Bulk (MBB) problem in which we are given a graph G = (V,E), demands {dst : s, t ∈ V }, and a family {cv : v ∈ V } of subadditive cost functions. For every s, t ∈ V we seek to send dst flow units from s to t on a single path, so that

In this note we investigate the hypercentral units in integral group rings ZG, where G is not necessarily torsion. One of the main results obtained is the following (Theorem 3.5): if the set of torsion elements of G is a subgroup T of G and if Z2(U) is not contained in CU (T ), then T is either an Abelian group of exponent 4 or a Q∗ group. This extends our earlier result on torsion group rings.

In an effort to unify the nomenclature of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, an updated system was agreed upon at the Second Satellite Meeting. A consensus was reached that T. cruzi strains should be referred to by six discrete typing units (T. cruzi I-VI). The goal of a unified nomenclature is to improve communication within the scientific community involved in T. cruzi ...

The UCVM (figure 1A) has no mean velocity component (μ(t) = 0) and a real, non-negative relaxation parameter α. Defined as α = 1 τ , τ represents a characteristic time scale of auto-correlation [1, 2]. The parameter β has units of velocity × time−1/2 which makes it difficult to interpret biologically. However, the mean squared speed of the UCVM is given by η2 ≡ lim t→∞ 〈 |v(t)|2 〉 = β2τ , such ...

Functional responses are encountered when units are observed over time. Although the whole function itself is not observed, a suuciently large number of evaluations, as is common with modern recording equipment, are assumed to be available. Functional regression analysis relates the functional response, y(t), to known covariates, x, by a linear combination of parameter functions , (t), which ar...

This paper presents an application of Improved Genetic Algorithm (IGA) with the support of Optimal Power Flow (OPF) algorithm for the least cost Generation Expansion Planning (GEP) problem under deregulated environment of power system. The proposed GEP model includes the presence of firm bilateral transactions, multilateral transactions and Independent Power Producers (IPP) in the system. The o...

In the conditions of northern arable farming, productivity and nutritional value dry mass pure stand Tr. pratense three-component agrophytocenoses with participation meadow clover, as well legume cereal representatives ( Galega orientalis Lam., Medicago varia Mart., Bromus inermis Leys., Phlum L.) were studied. Against background spring fertilizing N45P60K90 two-time mowing, yield biomass grass...

This study aims to determine the effect of profit sharing and inflation on third party funds in Islamic commercial banks sharia business units. The tests used this research are multiple linear regression test, normality classical assumption test (multicollinearity autocorrelation test), statistical (coefficient determination (R2), F t test). samples statistics Commercial Banks Sharia Business U...