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Children with unilateral Cerebral Palsy (CP) have several gait impairments, amongst which impaired gait stability may be one. We tested whether a newly developed stability measure (the foot placement estimator, FPE) which does not require long data series, can be used to asses gait stability in typically developing (TD) children as well as children with CP. In doing so, we tested the FPE's sens...

The uptake of nutrients by plant cells has been traditionally believed to be mediated by membrane-bound carriers. However, the last decade has seen an increase in evidence pointing to the parallel uptake by fluid-phase endocytosis (FPE). Recent advances in plant endocytosis reveal that this is true for heterotrophic cells, whether storage parenchyma, cell suspensions, or nutrient absorbing cell...

This paper presents FPE (Formatpreserving Encryption) for character data in both fixed-width and variable-width encoding. Previous researches only studied FPE for fixed-width character data. In this paper, FPE for character data is categorized into NPE (Number-preserving Encryption) and LPE (Length-preserving Encryption). The schemes related to NPE and LPE are proposed to encrypt fixed-width an...

Background. A scheme for format-preserving encryption (FPE) is supposed to do that which a conventional (possibly tweakable) blockcipher does—encipher messages within some message space X—except that message space, instead of being something like X = {0, 1}128, is more general [1, 3]. For example, the message space might be the set X = {0, 1, . . . , 9}16, in which case each 16-digit plaintext ...

OBJECTIVE To describe our outcomes using thrombolysis during the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of patients in cardiorespiratory arrest (CA) caused by fulminant pulmonary embolism (FPE). DESIGN A case series. SETTING Intensive care units of a district hospital and a referral centre. PATIENTS Six patients that suffered CA secondary to an FPE. INTERVENTIONS Administration of recombin...

BACKGROUND Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) suggests a direct cellular insult to myocardium. Apoptosis is considered as one of the hallmarks of DCM. Oxidative stress plays a key role in the pathogenesis of DCM. In this study, we explored the prevention of myocardial apoptosis by crude extract from Flos Puerariae (FPE) in experimental diabetic mice. METHODS Experimental diabetic model was induced...

The eradication of Listeria monocytogenes from food chains is still a great challenge for the food industry and control authorities since some clonal complexes (CCs) are either better adapted to food processing environments (FPEs) or are globally widespread. In this work, we focus on the in-house evolution of L. monocytogenes genotypes collected from a heavily contaminated FPE whose contaminati...

The Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) is a frequently used tool for the solution of cross probability density function (PDF) of a dynamic system response excited by a vector of random processes. FEM represents a very effective solution possibility, particularly when transition processes are investigated or a more detailed solution is needed. Actual papers deal with single degree of freedom (SDOF) sy...

The ability of Listeria monocytogenes isolates to survive within the food production environment (FPE), as well virulence, varies greatly between strains. There are specific genetic determinants that have been identified which can strongly influence a strains in FPE and/or human hosts. In this study, we assessed fitness and virulence potential, including efficacy selected hygiene or treatment i...