This paper deals with the dynamic behaviour of periodic reticulated beams and materials. Through the homogenization method of periodic discrete media the macro-behaviour is derived at the leading order. With a systematic use of scaling, the analysis is performed on the archetypical case of symmetric unbraced framed cells. Such cells can present a high contrast between shear and compression defo...

In a residential or nursing home environment, using ZigBee/802.15.4 wireless network specifically to collect and gather various types of personal health data proves to be a feasible choice. The Continua Guidelines has defined both the sensor-LAN IF (sensor Local Area Network Interface) PHD (Personal Health Device) and PAN IF (Personal Area Network Interface) PHD, but only a Continua certified s...

Lexical context strongly influences listeners' identification of ambiguous sounds. For example, a sound midway between /f/ and /s/ is reported as /f/ in "sheri_," but as /s/ in "Pari_." Norris, McQueen, and Cutler (2003) have demonstrated that after hearing such lexically determined phonemes, listeners expand their phonemic categories to include more ambiguous tokens than before. We tested whet...

Perampanel is the first-in-class selective and noncompetitive α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor antagonist. It is authorized in the U.S. and Europe as an add-on antiepileptic drug for partial-onset seizures, and for primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Single reports have also indicated a potential efficacy for myoclonic jerks. Here, we report a patient whose d...

A generalized probability mixture density governs an additive fuzzy system. The fuzzy system’s if-then rules correspond to the mixed probability densities. An additive fuzzy system computes an output by adding its fired rules and then averaging the result. The mixture’s convex structure yields Bayes theorems that give the probability of which rules fired or which combined fuzzy systems fired fo...

A strengthened and generalized version of the standard Virtual Work Principle is shown to imply, in addition to bulk and boundary balances, a oneto-one correspondence between surface and edge hypertractions and hyperstrestress fields in second-grade continua. When edge hypertractions are constitutively taken null, the hyperstress is shown to take the form it has for a Navier-Stokes−α fluid, a r...

It is shown that the inverse limit of an inverse system of smooth continua is a smooth continuum provided that there exists a thread composed of initial points and that the bonding mappings are monotone relative to these points. It also is proved that the property of being an arboroid, a dendroid, a generalized tree, a fan or a smooth fan is an invariant under the inverse limit operation if the...

Rasmussen encephalitis (RE), initially described half a century ago, is an inflammatory unihemispheric brain disorder. Its two clinical key facets are the progressive tissue and function loss and the epilepsy, often in form of epilepsia partialis continua. For both, treatment options are available. Anti-seizure effect of anti-epilepsy drugs is usually limited to secondarily generalized seizures...