OBJECTIVE To assess the utilization of leukotriene modifiers (LM) relative to national guidelines and to investigate possible emergency room utilization differences for LMs as monotherapy versus inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) monotherapy or combination ICS and LM therapy. METHODS The utilization of leukotriene modifiers (montelukast sodium, zafirlukast, and zileuton), concurrent inhaled steroid...

PARAUNITARY COSINE MODULATED PERFECT RECONSTRUCTION FILTER BANKST Yuan-Pel Lm and P. P Vaidyanathan Dept of Electrical Engineering, 116-81 California Institute of Technology Pasadena. CA 91125 In this paper, we construct two-dimensional (2D) FIR paraunitary Cosine Modulated Filter Banks (CMFB). All the analysis and synthesis filters are cosinemodulated versions of a 2D non-separable prototype; ...

There is no consensus on the type of nonlinearity enabling motion processing of second-order stimuli. Some authors suggest that a nonlinearity specifically applied to second-order stimuli prior to motion processing (e.g., rectification process) recovers the spatial structure of the signal permitting subsequent first-order motion analyses (e.g., filter-rectify-filter model). Others suggest that ...

The design of an optimized near-perfect reconstruction (NPR) type trans-multiplexer has been proposed. Cosine modulation has been used to design the synthesis and analysis sections of the trans-multiplexer. The design of transmultiplexer was reduced to design of single low-pass prototype FIR filter which is designed using variable window function (Kaiser, Cosh and DolphChebyshev). An unconstrai...

A problem stated by Höhle in his book “Many-valued Topology and Applications” is solved. The problem consists of finding a necessary and sufficient condition for a stratified L-filter to be induced by a -filter in the sense of Lemma 4.4.3 in this book. The condition given is proved to be equivalent to the condition considered in Proposition 4.4.4 in this book in the case of complete MV -algebra...

We use natural gradient (NG) learning neural networks (NNs) for modeling and identifying nonlinear systems with memory. The nonlinear system is comprised of a discrete-time linear filter H followed by a zero-memory nonlinearity g(·). The NN model is composed of a linear adaptive filter Q followed by a two-layer memoryless nonlinear NN. A Kalman filter-based technique and a search-and-converge m...

This paper focuses on the relationships between stratified $L$-conver-gence spaces, stratified strong $L$-convergence spaces and stratifiedlevelwise  $L$-convergence spaces. It has been known that: (1) astratified $L$-convergence space is precisely a left-continuousstratified levelwise $L$-convergence space; and (2) a  stratifiedstrong $L$-convergence space is naturally a stratified $L$-converg...

the aim of the present paper is to define and study (ic)$lm$-fuzzytopological spaces, a generalization of (weakly) induced $lm$-fuzzytopological spaces. we discuss the basic properties of(ic)$lm$-fuzzy topological spaces, and introduce the notions ofinterior (ic)-fication and exterior (ic)-fication of $lm$-fuzzytopologies and prove that {bf iclm-ftop} (the category of(ic)$lm$-fuzzy topological ...

PURPOSE Extraocular muscle (EOM) has a distinct skeletal muscle phenotype. The hypothesis for the study was that fibroblasts support the unique EOM phenotype and that perimysial fibroblasts derived from EOM have properties that distinguish them from fibroblasts derived from other skeletal muscle. METHODS Perimysial fibroblasts from leg muscle (LM-Fibro) and EOM (EOM-Fibro) of mice were derive...

A fundamental task of the visual system is to extract figure-ground boundaries between images of objects, which in natural scenes are often defined not only by luminance differences but also by "second-order" contrast or texture differences. Responses to contrast modulation (CM) and other second-order stimuli have been extensively studied in human psychophysics, but the neuronal substrates of s...