New methodologies for performing pairwise tree-matching on carbohydrate sugar chain data were introduced in [3], in which well-known sequence alignment algorithms [12] were extended and an already known polynomial-time graph algorithm for finding the maximum common subtree (MCST) of two trees [7] was used to implement what is called the KEGG Carbohydrate Matcher, or KCaM. These new methodologie...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to analyze the psychometric properties and diagnostic accuracy of the Chilean version of the INECO Frontal Screening (IFS-Ch) in a sample of dementia patients and control subjects. METHODS After adapting the instrument to the Chilean context and obtaining content validity evidence through expert consultation, the IFS-Ch was administered to 31 dementia patients and ...

Objective: This study sought to analyze the psychometric properties and diagnostic accuracy of the Chilean version of the INECO Frontal Screening (IFS-Ch) in a sample of dementia patients and control subjects. Methods: After adapting the instrument to the Chilean context and obtaining content validity evidence through expert consultation, the IFSCh was administered to 31 dementia patients and 3...

In this paper a bidirectional linear systolic array (BLSA) that computes minimum cost spanning tree (MCST) of a given graph is designed. We present a synthesis procedure, based on data dependencies and space-time transformations of index space, to design BLSA with optimal number of processing elements (PEs) for a given problem size. The execution time is minimized for that number of PEs. Explic...

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that Cognitive Simulation Therapy (CST) benefits cognition and quality of life of people with dementia, but little is known about the indirect effects of this intervention on family caregivers. This study sought to investigate the effect of CST on family caregivers general health status of people with dementia living in the community attending the CST interv...

Previous reports documented abnormalities in cognitive functions and decision-making (DM) in patients with chronic pain, but these changes are not consistent across studies. Reasons for these discordant findings might include the presence of confounders, variability in chronic pain conditions, and the use of different cognitive tests. The present study was aimed to add evidence in this field, b...

The strongest reaction for AP in both active and quiescent follicles was seen in the dermal papillae (Figs. 1 and 2), occasionally in the upper part only. The presence of AP in this region (Table 1), particularly during the active phase of hair growth, has now been reported in many species, suggesting that it plays an important role in hair growth. The blood vessels within the dermal papillae o...

Since launch, lunar observations have been made regularly by both Terra and Aqua MODIS and used for a number of sensor calibration and characterization related applications, including radiometric stability monitoring, spatial characterization, optical leak and electronic cross-talk characterization, and calibration inter-comparison. MODIS has 36 spectral bands with a total of 490 individual det...

Free vibration of an axially loaded silicon microbeam in MEMS under electrostatic actuation is studied on the basis a sinusoidal shear deformation theory. Based modified couple stress theory (MCST) and von Kármán geometric nonlinearity, nonlinear finite element formulation derived employed to construct discrete governing equations for microbeam. The deflection at given DC voltage firstly calcul...

In this study, the effect of finite strain on bending of the geometrically nonlinear of micro laminated composite Euler-Bernoulli beam based on Modified Couple Stress Theory (MCST) is studied in thermal environment. The Green-Lagrange strain tensor according to finite strain assumption and the principle of minimum potential energy is applied to obtain governing equation of motion and boundary c...