Assessment of the quality of general movements (GMs) in early infancy is a powerful instrument to predict cerebral palsy (CP). The aim of the present study is to explore the value of GM assessment in predicting minor neurological dysfunction (MND) at 9 to 12 years of age. Two groups of infants were studied prospectively: 28 low-risk full-term infants (11 females, 17 males) and 24 high-risk infa...

In this paper, a novel filter-based greedy modular subspace (GMS) technique is proposed to improve the accuracy of high-dimensional data classification. The proposed approach initially divides the whole set of high-dimensional features into several arbitrary number of highly correlated subgroups by performing a greedy correlation matrix reordering transformation for each class. These GMS can be...

In recent years, it is known that childhood behavioral disorders are related to sleep quality. Thus it is important to monitor the childhood sleep to monitor their normal develop. It is said that there is a tight relationship between sleep quality and body movements, especially gross body movements (GMs). Thus, this study focused on the relationship to sleep quality and GMs. Hence, we investiga...

This paper presents a novel approach to the (generation maintenance scheduling) GMS problem in electricity markets. The main contribution of this study is the modeling of a coordination procedure for an (independent system operator) ISO, based on a game-theoretic framework for the GMS problem. The GMS process of generation companies (Gencos) is designed as a non-cooperative dynamic game, and th...

Human beings are inevitably exposed to ubiquitous phthalate esters (PAEs). Processed, packaged foods are popular nowadays, in which emulsifiers are frequently added as food additives. It is unclear how emulsifiers affect the bioavailability of ingested PAEs contaminants and their toxicities. The purposes of our study were to explore whether food emulsifier Glycerin Monostearate (GMS) could incr...

Distributed multimedia applications are very demanding with respect to support they require from the underlying group communication platform. In this paper, an approach is described which aims at providing group communication platform designers with a component which can be used for powerful group and session management functionality. This component, which can be integrated into group communica...

Daily averaged TOGA COARE data are analyzed to test our hypothesis that convection is amplified (attenuated) via sub-critical (super-critical) gross moist stability which corresponds to a bottom-heavy (top-heavy) vertical velocity profile. Gross moist stability (GMS) is a quantity which represents efficiency of moist static energy (MSE) export by convection and associated large-scale circulatio...

BACKGROUND The Global Mood Scale (GMS; [Denollet, J., 1993a. Emotional distress and fatigue in coronary heart disease: the Global Mood Scale (GMS). Psychol Med 23, 111-121., Denollet, J., 1993b. The sensitivity of outcome assessment in cardiac rehabilitation. J Consult Clin Psychol 61, 686-695.]) was originally developed as a measure of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) in cardiac p...

BACKGROUND Whether long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPs) play a role in the development of the young nervous system in term infants is debated. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether supplementation of formula with LCPs for 2 mo improves the quality of general movements (GMs) in healthy term infants at 3 mo of age. DESIGN A prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled study was condu...

Materials Sodium form of hyaluronic acid (HA, MW, 10 kDa) was a gift of Kolon Life Science, Korea. EDC.HCl (99%) and N-Hydroxy succinimide (NHS, 99%) were purchased from Shanghai Medeep Co., Ltd. Monostearin (glycerol α-monostearate, GMS), Sodium deoxycholate (DOC) and fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) were purchased from Solarbio (Beijing, China). Doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX) was supplied b...