A general expression for the correlation time of the decay of the magnetization of an assembly of singledomain noninteracting ferromagnetic particles is given in terms of the inverse of the Fokker-Planck operator. The results of Moro and Nordio @G. Moro and P. L. Nordio, Mol. Phys. 56, 255 ~1985!#, given in the context of dielectric relaxation, are recovered when the Fokker-Planck operator is a...

1N-ATE is an on-going project aimed at developing expert consultant systems for guiding a novice technician through each step of an electronics troubleshooting session. One goal of the project is to automatically produce, given a set of initial symptoms, a binary (pass/fail) decision tree of testpoints to be checked by the technician. This paper discusses our initial approach using a modified g...

PURPOSE This report describes the development and preliminary analysis of a database for traumatically injured military service members with dysphagia. METHODS A multidimensional database was developed to capture clinical variables related to swallowing. Data were derived from clinical records and instrumental swallow studies, and ranged from demographics, injury characteristics, swallowing b...

Discussed is a circuit which measures and analyses power supply transients as defined in the test technique, Transient Signal Analysis (TSA). This circuit can replace the benchtop instrumentation and offline signal processing software used in previous work. The circuit accepts voltage transients as analog inputs from the Device-Under-Test (DUT), performs integration and outputs an analog value ...

OBJECTIVES This study examines the association of daily cortisol with depressive mood and anger. METHOD Depressive mood, anger and 2 markers of cortisol, area under the curve (AUC), and cortisol awakening response (CAR) were examined for caregivers (N = 164) of individuals with dementia (IWDs) across 8 days, some of which IWDs attended an adult day service (ADS) program. Caregivers were prima...

background: diagnosis and management of malnutrition in hiv- infected children is important as it is both a manifestation as well as an independent risk factor for death. extent in hilly poor outreach areas of north india has been poorly studied.  aim: to study the prevalence of malnutrition among children with hiv/aids using who z- score and indian academy of pediatrics (iap) method and effect...

BACKGROUND Modeling studies using hypothetical polygenic risk data can be an efficient tool for investigating the effectiveness of downstream applications such as targeting interventions to risk groups to justify whether empirical investigation is warranted. We investigated the assumptions underlying a method that simulates risk data for specific values of the area under the receiver operating ...

Diagnostic biomarkers are used frequently in epidemiologic and clinical work. The ability of a diagnostic biomarker to discriminate between subjects who develop disease (cases) and subjects who do not (controls) is often measured by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). The diagnostic biomarkers are usually measured with error. Ignoring measurement error can cause bi...

AIM To test the variability within and between subject of glycemic response test following the ingestion of a standard food. MATERIAL AND METHODS Glucose and insulin response of a standard meal (white bread) was performed in ten healthy volunteers and repeated under identical conditions for 6 times. Blood glucose and insulin levels were measured in the fasted state and over the 180 min follow...

The objective of this research was to examine whether the Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale, a life event scale, can be used to identify suicide attempters. The Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale's ability to identify suicide attempters was tested in 1183 subjects (478 suicide attempters, 197 psychiatric inpatients, and 508 healthy controls) using the Fisher Linear Discrimi...