BACKGROUND To investigate the follow-up course of developmental profiles in preschool children with spastic quadriplegic (SQ) cerebral palsy (CP) who had varying ambulatory abilities. METHODS Forty-eight children with SQ CP between 1 and 5 years old were classified into 2 groups, the ambulatory and non-ambulatory groups, based on Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels durin...

Celiac disease (CD) is most probably an immunological disease, precipitated in susceptible individuals by ingestion of wheat gliadin and related proteins from other cereals. The disease shows a strong human HLA association predominantly to the cis or trans encoded HLA-DQ(alpha 1*0501,beta 1*0201) (DQ2) heterodimer. T cell recognition of gliadin presented by this DQ heterodimer may thus be of im...

BACKGROUND Environmental pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), lead, and mercury are released by combustion of coal and other fossil fuels. OBJECTIVES In the present study we evaluated the association between prenatal exposure to these pollutants and child development measured by the Gesell Developmental Schedules at 2 years of age. METHODS The study was conducted in T...

A new kind of derivation in BCI-algebras is introduced, and related properties are investigated. For a self map dq of a BCI-algebra X, conditions for the kernel of dq to be both a subalgebra and an ideal of X are provided. Mathematics Subject Classification: 06F35, 03G25

We prove that for continuous stochastic processes S based on ( ;F;P) for which there is an equivalent martingale measureQ with square-integrable density dQ=dPwe have that the so-called "variance optimal" martingale measure Q for which the density dQ=dPhas minimal L(P)-norm is automatically equivalent to P. The result is then applied to an approximation problem arising in Mathematical Finance.

Abstract LoRa, due to its advantage of long-range communication capability, is promising for Internet Things (IoT) and space-air-ground communications. However, the conventional MAC protocol used with LoRa classified as an Aloha-based algorithm, which leads drastic decrease in throughput when a huge amount end-devices try access network. To achieve stable high we propose design combine distribu...

objective electroencephalogram (eeg) is an easy and non invasive evaluation method for diagnosis and early prognosis in children. our aim was to assess the association between eeg and the patients' developmental quotient (dq) level in phenylketonuria. materials & methods in this study, 94 pku patients (45 boys, 49 girls; mean age: 8.5 6.2 years) who were diagnosed through newborn screening test...

Third generation advanced high-strength steels, e.g., quenched and partitioned are forthcoming structural materials, which consist of a martensitic matrix substantial proportion stabilized residual austenite for improved deformability. A novel less energy-intensive processing route direct-quenching partitioning advances this concept by facilitating carbon to untransformed directly from the quen...

A novel Hermite radial basis function-based differential quadrature (H-RBF-DQ) method is presented in this paper based on 2D variable order time fractional advection–diffusion equations with Neumann boundary conditions. The proposed designed to treat accurately for derivative conditions, which considerably improve the approximation results and extend range of applicability RBF-DQ. advantage pre...