It has recently been observed empirically that the number of FPL configurations with 3 sets of a, b and c nested arches equals the number of plane partitions in a box of size a × b × c. In this note, this result is proved by constructing explicitly the bijection between these FPL and plane partitions.

PURPOSE To show biomechanically that the brachioradialis (BR) muscle can be transferred to restore key pinch and forearm pronation simultaneously. METHODS Nine fresh-frozen forearms were thawed and instrumented with a custom muscle-tendon excursion jig. Maximum BR muscle-tendon excursion was measured with the wrist and thumb mobile. Muscle-tendon excursion then was measured from 60 degrees of...

Objectives: Mouse is one of the most important data entry devices for computers. Undesirable and prolonged postures during work with the computer mouse increase workload, muscle aches and upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders. The present study aimed to evaluate and compare muscle activity during the use of 4 types of mouse, including trackball, trackpad, slanted and standard by Electromyog...

Epidemiology literature demonstrates socioeconomic status as an important variable for outcomes in persons with epilepsy. However, no previous studies have analyzed the association between poverty and epilepsy in the United States. Forty-one percent (246/604) of persons with a history of epilepsy (PWHE) in the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (n=43,020) had an annual income <200% Federal...

The article presents refutational resolution theorem proving system for the Fuzzy Predicate Logic of First-Order (FPL) based on the general (non-clausal) resolution rule. There is also presented an unification algorithm handling existentiality without the need of skolemization. Its idea follows from the general resolution with existentiality for the first-order logic. When the prover is constru...

This article deals with the agreement system of two dialects spoken in southern Switzerland. In both, FPL is marked by suffix -n, which a reflex 6th person verbal ending. Bregagliotto, more conservative dialect two, -n occurs second position NPS (FPL and FSG NPs are otherwise identical). Mesolcinese, on all inflected elements that agree feminine plural controller (including finite verbs), excep...

Recently it has been conjectured that the ground-state of a Markovian Hamiltonian, with one boundary operator, acting in a link pattern space is related to vertically and horizontally symmetric alternating-sign matrices (equivalently fully-packed loop configurations (FPL) on a grid with special boundaries). We extend this conjecture by introducing an arbitrary boundary parameter. We show that t...

Open answer set programming (OASP) is an extension of answer set programming where one may ground a program with an arbitrary superset of the program’s constants. We define a fixed point logic (FPL) extension of Clark’s completion such that open answer sets correspond to models of FPL formulas and identify a syntactic subclass of programs, called (loosely) guarded programs. Whereas reasoning wi...

Composted poultry litter (CPL) can be used for horticultural crops as a source of organic matter and stabilized N. Recent studies indicated that P was not stabilized by composting and that excess P could be released into the environment when CPL was applied to land on N-based plant requirements. This experiment determined the effect of CPL and fresh poultry litter (FPL) from two sources on leaf...

Spent sulfite pulping liquor (SSL) contains lignin, which is present as lignosulfonate, and hemicelluloses that are present as hydrolyzed carbohydrates. To reduce the biological oxygen demand of SSL associated with dissolved sugars, we studied the capacity of Pichia stipitis FPL-YS30 (xyl3Delta) to convert these sugars into useful products. FPL-YS30 produces a negligible amount of ethanol while...